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Dengue Fever (DF) is the leading cause of illness and death around the world. In order to take action against this issue the involvement of the public and society is very important. However the public awareness towards DF is very low due to the lack of attention for this issue. Therefore, this research explores the feasibility to develop a mobile application, which is an informative mobile application that is designed to attract the public and society’s attention and increase the awareness about DF. The mobile application, Dengue Fever Awareness using Mobile Application, DeFever, acts as an informative mobile application that can be used to provide more information about DF with some useful features. By using DeFever, all information regarding DF and infected areas will be accessible. The objectives of this research are to identify the level of public awareness based on the knowledge, attitudes and practices towards Dengue, to identify the suitable design features of DeFever and to develop the mobile app (DeFever) that helps to increase the public awareness towards DF. The method used in this research was by using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) whereby the model used was the 5D Appreciative Inquiry Model for DeFever. AI is the cooperative, co-developmental search in finding the best in individuals of people, and the world around them. It includes deliberate revelation of what offers life to an association or a group when it is best and most skilled in financial, biological and human terms. Finally, hopefully DeFever can be used to assist efforts in increasing the public awareness level towards DF.
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Baharum, A., Tanalol, S.H., Edward, J., Rusli, N.M., Ismail, I., Zain, N.H.M. (2018). Dengue Fever Awareness Using Mobile Application: DeFever. In: Alfred, R., Iida, H., Ag. Ibrahim, A., Lim, Y. (eds) Computational Science and Technology. ICCST 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 488. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8276-4_27
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