ISSN 22773061 1445 | Page Aug 10, 2013 Hajj and Umra smart mobile Application: Culture and Usability Study Firas Omar Department of Software Engineering, Zarqa University, Jordan fomar@zu.edu.jo Tareq Alhmiedat Department of Computer Science, Zarqa University, Jordan t.alhmiedat@zu.edu.jo Mohammad Hassouna School of Computing and Mathematical Science University of Greenwich, UK M.Hassouna@greenwich.ac.uk ABSTRACT Mobile technology is becoming more popular around the world. The importance of such technology relates to its capability of allowing the user of performing many different daily basis tasks. Despite the progress made in the mobile application field, there are still some boundaries and limitations in using it. Some of these difficulties are connected directly to the Culture. Other difficulties are related to the experience in using such technology. This research aims to find out the main restrictions and obstacles which limit the use of mobile handsets as an Islamic smart Hajj and Umra Application. The research aim extends to studying the effect of cultural issues on people’s use of the internet on a mobile phone. The research reported here is based on participants from the Hashemite Kingdome of Jordan. Indexing terms/Keywords Culture, HCI, Usability. Academic Discipline And Sub-Disciplines This paper addresses several important aspects such as, Culture, age, mobile human cumpoter interaction, trust,familiarity and usability. These aspect tends to answer the problem arose for this paper. The aspects also tends to solve the issues assiosiated with the topic of the paper through the understanding of each of them and addressing each aspect thoroughly within the steps of composing this work. SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION Computer Sciences and software engineering. TYPE (METHOD/APPROACH) To achieve the broad aim of this research, it was important to conduct an initial study to clarify the problem. Therefore, the first step of this research was to develop and validate a questionnaire to gain information on the problem area. The next stage is to try to address the issues generated from the results obtained from the questionnaire. This will highlight the main obstacles and barriers of using smart mobile phones in Hajj and Umra. Participants will be randomly from thoese who had performed Hajj or Umra. The minimum number of participants should not be less than 30; no upper limit is required, however. The lower limit is more important because it allows the use of the central limit theorem and the normality of data assumption at the statistical analysis stage. The experiment will be divided into three parts. In the first part, participants will be asked to fill in a questionnaire designed to understand the main problems that the proposed system will try to solve. The second part of the study will involve designing and developing the system which will be specially developed to work under a smart phone environment. Finally, participants will be asked to complete a usability questionnaire at the end of the experiment. Participants will be observed while completing each task of the experiment. Council for Innovative Research Peer Review Research Publishing System Journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY Vol 10, No 3 editor@cirworld.com www.cirworld.com, member.cirworld.com