Understanding Hidden Meanings of Quran’s Words Using Mobile/Android Application ()
1. Introduction
It is amazing how some kinds of games can be a great help to our children. At least, there are some educational benefits in gaming. First they develop skills such as narrative and trans-media skills, they challenge our thinking and exercise our minds. Puzzle is a kind of game including hidden object game (HOGs) which is the most well-liked genres of Internet games and the most searched for and successful games on the market today [1].
HOGs are a genre of online puzzle video games that the player must find several items from a list, hidden inside of a picture and can be categorized into two main categories: hidden clue games and hidden picture games. Today one of the most well-liked online hidden object games is named “Gardens of Time” by Playdom [2]. The game can be played either at Playdom.com or on Facebook. So, we thought of developing an application for helping kids practice Quran by knowing meanings of words so that when they start memorizing Quran, it will be easy to understand the meanings of the words.
Android is the most popular mobile platform in the world which development is becoming an increasingly popular field [3]. For developers who want to target a huge, diverse audience, and demand use of computer system software has been implemented from PC, mobile and even other means of technology and applications or games are now invading it. In years, games are also being implemented using the World Wide Web.
This paper is introducing understanding hidden meanings of Quran’s words using mobile/Android application. The main contributions of our research work include:
· The application can do a lot of experiment with puzzle and other random applications.
· The application gives them an opportunity to use their brain in order to recognize, remember and re-produce the Quranic words in the way they want.
· Children are sharp at the young age and with these kinds of Application, we can surely provide them a platform, which will serve them in the knowledge about the Holy Quran.
This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 explain the related work. Section 3 discussed the paper methodology. Our application results are observed in Section 4. Section 5 focuses on Conclusion and Future work.
2. Related Work
2.1. Criminal Case
Criminal case [4] is a well-known hidden object game in which is developed by “Simple Games” on Facebook. In this game, player is the police officer character and he has to solve the series of criminal cases. In starting of the game, player will be provided by a list of hidden objects and you have to find those objects which will be the clue to solve the case. Stars are the main part of this game; you will need stars to progress the game to do investigation about the criminal like autopsies, examining clues and communicating with suspects. The more stars you collect the more progress you made. The game becomes harder and pretty amazing on the progressing period. This game is so interesting that people who inspire detective themed games will get hooked to it as shown in Figure 1.
2.2. Castle: Never Judge a Book by Its Cover
Richard Castle and Detective Kate Beckett are one of the teams that are not only ruling the television industry by their murder investigation series and dynamic twists and turns of the lives of the New Yorkers, but have also stepped down in the gaming industry [5]. “Castle: Never Judge a Book by Its Cover” game is the hidden object game where the players are responsible to undercover the hints and the clues which will lead them to the authentic murderer and close the investigation case with another success as shown in Figure 2.
Kate and Castle are also part of this game as they are featured with dynamic 3-D structures in the respective game as they work around in new and unique crime scenes which sometimes make the user confuse and lead them off the course. It is a classical renovation of Sherlock Holmes, as he also had to make investigations and solve mysterious by getting criminals behind the bars and getting justice at the end. This story has more mysterious.
2.3. Mystery Crime
Life is boring if there is no fun and hidden object games are amazing. The game
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Figure 2. Castle: never judge a book by its cover.
Mystery Crimes puts you behind the detective badge as you solve crimes in the sole manner you recognize by finishing hidden object scenes. Mystery Crimes is split into two main areas of play: hidden object scenes and inquiring interludes.
Mystery Crimes options 3 forms of currency to figure with: gems, energy bolts, and stars. Energy bolts are spent to enter crime scenes to go looking for clues. If there is no energy it means that player hasn’t hunted anything, however it refills (slowly) as time passes.
Gems can be spent to make the tasks quick, like encouraging the team to investigate. They additionally permit you to hold power-ups into every hidden object scene at amazingly abrupt amount. Eventually, stars are spent to interview suspects and analyze clues, kind of like energy bolts for the inquiring aspect of things. In this game you can investigate a variety of scenes of your interests to keep you amaze all the time as shown in Figure 3.
2.4. Doli Alphabet
It’s a game [6] that make kids learn alphabets while searching for them in a picture, as seen in the figure below there is an “E” letter where the kid will try and locate it from the picture. This game really helps kids in memorizing the alphabets and learning them as shown in Figure 4.
2.5. Hidden Object Games
Hidden object games [1], often called HOGs or really are a genre of online puzzle video games that the player must find several items from a list, hidden inside of a picture. As we know the young people are have a natural ability to notice the little things that adults have a tendency to miss. Furthermore, that explains why the first hidden object pictures were targeted in direction of a younger audience. Hidden object games can be categorized into two main categories: hidden clue games, and hidden picture games. In the hidden clue games, the player has to locate the hidden clues to solve the story and makes you put on your thinking cap to solve the mysteries.
Hidden picture games in each stage you’re given a list of items to find in the current picture. Some will have an impact on the story, some are simply there to keep things interesting, but all of them need to be found. Today one of the most well-liked online hidden object games is named “Gardens of Time” by Playdom. The game can be played either at Playdom.com or on Facebook. This approach is applied in this study.
Previous researchers were focused on developing methods to achieve accurate and funny games and entertainments for children. The main drawbacks of the previous research works were, they use a games for fun only not for teaching or knowledge. Therefore, previous works lack some promising features that could enable us to give children an opportunity to use their brain in order to recognize, remember and re-produce the Quranic words in the way they want using Hidden object games.
3. Proposed Method Methodology
A methodology is the steps or technique we will follow in our study, there are many methods, as waterfall, incremental, Agile and others.
3.1. Agile Model
Agile methodology is considered one of the best methodologies to develop a software. Software’s developed using agile methodology are more efficient than others produced by other methodologies.
The Agile method as shown in Figure 5 splits the project to iterations. Each phase or iteration is developed, tested as a single task [7]. Figure 5 describes the main steps in this model.
3.2. Conceptual Design
Figure 6 shows conceptual design of the application where child interacts through
the interface with the application and can do some tasks as reading description and locating object image on background image. Score is calculated through the application based on the child’s answer if it’s right or wrong.
3.3. System Components
Figure 7 shows the system components of the android application that mainly has 3 parts presentation layer which is the interfaces the user use to interact with the application to request a service, business layer that is concerned with the logic of the application code the database layer which is the data store that holds the object images.
3.4. Architecture Design
The system architecture gives an outline and a plan for the overall system architecture, and the frameworks can be created, which can cooperate to actualize the
general framework. It means that it will provide all components that we need it to develop the application [8] [9].
Below in Figure 8 is the system architecture of our auction application is presented. Where we have children as main users of the application. Child sends and receives information from the application by clicking on the right Object Image that corresponds to the word chosen. Child can view ayah meaning and voice through the application.
3.5. Interface Design
Figure 9 shows the main interface of the application, where the background picture holds more object images. There are 8 image objects related to the 8 words
found below the background image. Users have three helps that can be used throughout the game. Score will be shown on the left top of the screen as shown in Figure 9. When users click on the word and choose the right object image the application will show that he was right and score is increased. Then the ayah will be displayed with an option to listen to the ayah. Following this, the word will be deleted from list of words and the object image too will be deleted from the background image.
4. Experimental Evaluation
4.1. Experiential Results
4.1.1. Capabilities of Application
In the following tables we will check capabilities of children and parents when using the application as shown in Appendix A.
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Table 1. Descriptive statistics TADABAR APP capabilities (kids).
As shown in Table 1 and Table 2, the Mean for house request management system capabilities dimension is 4.6 for kids and 4.3 for parents, indicating that both respondents satisfied and agree on the capabilities of system after the respondents use the system functions.
4.1.2. Perceived Usefulness
The following tables check the usefulness of the application for children and parent’s as shown in Table 3 & Table 4.
As shown in Table 3 & Table 4, the Mean for perceived usefulness dimension is 4.62 for kids and 4.48 for parents, indicating that the kids and parents agree on the system use and the system enable to accomplish the process more quickly.
4.1.3. Ease of Use
The following tables check how it is very easy to use the application for children’s and parent’s as shown in Table 5 & Table 6.
As shown in Table 5 & Table 6, the Mean for perceived ease use dimension is 5.13 for kids and 4.53 for parents, refer to that the kids and parents find the system
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Table 2. Descriptive statistics TADABAR APP capabilities (parents).
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Table 3. Descriptive statistics for perceived usefulness (kids).
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Table 4. Descriptive statistics for perceived usefulness (parents).
easy to use and the operations in the system user-friendly and uncomplicated.
4.1.4. Nielsen’s Attributes of Usability
Our method contains three main categories, namely, Efficiency, Accuracy and Satisfaction, for assessing the quality of application for kids and parents. Rating the application according to these categories will provide better application evaluation compared with the user ratings in the application store as shown in Table 7 & Table 8. The subjective quality of each category contains a number of items as shown in Table 7 & Table 8.
As shown in Table 7 & Table 8, the Mean for Attributes of Usability dimension is 4.5 for kids and 4.2 for parents, indicating that both users kids and parents satisfied with the usability of the system, and the users felt that the game effectively and efficiently to execute TADABAR APP process.
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Table 5. Descriptive statistics for perceived ease Use (kids).
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Table 6. Descriptive statistics for perceived ease use (parents).
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Table 7. Descriptive statistics for attributes of usability (kids).
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Table 8. Descriptive statistics for attributes of usability (parents).
4.2. New Approach Average Scores
We averaged the scores of the collected application surveys according to our categories. Each item uses a three-point scale, a score for each category is calculated as the mean of all belonging items, and the overall score is calculated as an average across the categories. The overall satisfaction measures are 4.32, as shown in Table 9.
From Table 9, the results show that the average score of 4.72 out of 5, indicating that the users are feeling enjoyable while using the application features and the system is easy to use. Finally, the systems would assist in achieving the highest degree of helping our children learn and become familiar with the Holy Book of Quran.
4.3. Comparison between Our Work and Relevant Work
Table 10 shows the comparison with the new approach and other traditional one. From Table 10, it is clear that our approach using all features as innovative, giving hints, Arabic language using and Android, however the traditional approaches could use only some of these features.
5. Conclusions
The new approach is to educate and make our children aware, but in a way that makes them happy and suits the cause. This study helps children to relate all those words with real life, reel life and later then will recognize them easily using
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Table 9. Descriptive statistics for all dimensions.
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Table 10. Comparison between learning Quran append related works [10] [11].
Hidden Quran Meaning (Tadabar) application. Future work should be built regularly on various concepts like this so that children can easily learn Quran. Apps based on games, coins and points that attract children through their interface, but the soul function for all those apps in to make children learn what Holy Quran is. Once they start recognizing and using such Apps, they will read Quran as well and become familiar with all the words. So, even government should support people who are taking such initiatives and with more added features in Apps like this we can see a mark improvement.
Furthermore, future work could focus on putting guidelines in this documentation to have Arabic, beneficial, entertainment android application. Furthermore, we have to say that this documentation include only the basics and the implementation level could inspire us to add more details which encourage the children and give them more self-confidence.
Appendix A