Applying bee comb architecture to a design of mobile historical event storytelling: A case study of M-Seerah

Abstract

M-Seerah is an application that was developed to provide a different approach in gaining knowledge on Islamic history. The existing design of user interface and content segmentation of Islamic history content especially mobile Seerah, is rarely discussed. Therefore, this paper will introduce the theoretical and technical foundations for designing an M-Seerah in disseminating the Islamic history content through storytelling approach. This paper proposed a user interface design inspired from the bee comb architecture and derived a theorem that can be used for other mobile application. This paper also discussed the segmentation of history content based on the Ibnu Khaldun theory of history that can be used in any historical narration. Both the design has been successfully applied to the M-Seerah application and gets the positive review from the usability expert in Heuristic Evaluation.