Developing a Mobile Fashion Dictionary to Improve Understanding of English Vocabularies for Fashion

Fashion students’ difficulty in learning English fashion terms and their meanings in higher educational institutions in the absence of fashion dictionaries inspired researchers to develop an electronic fashion dictionary. This research aimed at designing and assessing the feasibility of the digital application developed for fashion students at universities. The software application development was adapted from Pressman’s waterfall process in two steps. The first step was to analyze the software of the electronic fashion dictionary concerning its function, perspective, characteristics, and specification; meanwhile, the second one was to design and employ the design of the electronic fashion dictionary which included the need for external interfaces, detailed planning, and software quality attributes of the electronic fashion dictionary. The result of the research showed that the concept of the electronic fashion dictionary constitutes two parts, the first of which is the database of the electronic fashion dictionary consisting of 9.300 vocabularies, each with a definition and accompanying illustration. The second part is the application of the software system of the electronic fashion dictionary. The application of the software system involves two users: administrator users (admins) and general users (users). Admins have an access and permission to input, update and delete both entries and illustration of FASHCABULARY. On the other hand, users can only access vocabularies in the dictionary and offer some feedback about the performance of the application. Meanwhile, the feasibility study was made by a media pundit to assess the performance, software system attributes, and some other features of the application. In respect of this study, the media pundit stated that the electronic fashion dictionary application was feasible enough to be used by university students or general public who want to learn more about fashion. In conclusion, this media can be said to be useful for fashion students at universities and gen