UTP Performing Arts Group Portal

"UTP Performing Arts Group" is a project that was developed with the intention to
educate students and arts enthusiasts regarding arts and cultures movement especially
in dance activities through a one-stop portal in the development of the system. By
developing this project, it is highly hope that arts and cultures movement can be
promoted among students and arts enthusiasts through one-stop portal which
currently become a trend for people to communicate through online.
The dissertation will focus on an automated approach to promote art and culture
movement especially in dance through a one-stop portal which provides information
regarding dance activities especially in UTP by UTP Performing Arts Group. An
interactive portal which combines knowledge management and collaborative
networking is intended for use by students and arts enthusiasts to communicate
among each other based on their interest in dance. The portal provides many
interactive segments such as forum, chatroom, video and photo sharing which allows
the users to gain more information regarding dance activities yet they can meet new
users in this portal.
Preliminary performance and usability testing results were satisfactory to excellent.
Prospects for further development of this social networking portal are discussed in
detail, along with implications for future research.
It is concluded that this portal hold considerable promise for promoting arts and
culture especially dance through an electronic media such as portal. The present
portal may be one of several that could be considered for future commercialization or
in-house development.