...Psychological effects of heavy usage of Virtual Reality Smith is a fourth grader who is all into video games; his goal is to have the latest video game. He lives in his video games. He goes to school every day physically and but mentally he is in his video game world, where he is the king of the racing cars and he is rich enough to buy the whole city. He always skips his homework because he cannot remember what he learned in school. While teachers are teaching, he is playing with his video games in his head and not paying attention in class. Teachers always contact smith’s parents and even parents seem to be helpless, because according to Smith’s parents, he gets very aggravated if they try to take his video games and Smith really gets violent with his siblings and friends. Smith wants to sit in locked room holding the remote controller in his hands where he can control several different cars in a second. He cannot remember anything what he does throughout the day because in his mind he is always in the second world. One day Smith was sitting in living room plying with his video games, suddenly his mom falls off from stairs and broke her arm. Instead of calling for help, Smith continues with his games and when his dad asks what happened he could not tell him exactly what happened. Smith told his dad, he does not remember if he sees mother falling down because all he could see that he is losing the game and he has to get more cars in the race. After that Smith’...
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...I work out, I keep an eye on my crawling infant son, as I use the DVD player and talk to his dad on the IPod. Other times I cook dinner, while helping my other son with his homework, and maybe check an email or two, and look up a recipe…well that about sums up the idea hectic life style for most people. What I’m actually doing is a series of tasks one at a time and switching constantly between them. The problem with serial tasking is that it leads to lower quality and less productivity. The rice came out a little overcooked, I think I might have sent the wrong email to the wrong person, and we’re still working on the homework. If concentrating on one thing at a time, I would have had a better chance to do more tasks correctly. Technology’s influence on us is greater than ever before; we are ever connected by cell phones, laptops, television. We spend time checking social media and emails on these devices. This is true in adults over thirty who often grew up without these devices as children. The use of technological devices is even more prevalent in the younger generations, We all go through it, there is too much to do and not enough time to do it. Our days are like this more often than not. I’m a single mother of two young boys; I always find myself picking...
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...The Power of La Mesa de la Cocina The kitchen table “la mesa de la cocina” used to be the heartbeat of a family in almost every home. Reminisce of the importance a simple kitchen table played in your life. Much more than a flat surface to dine on, it is a place to gather, talk, and reconnect with one another. Today Hispanic families, however, are different. The advent of technology has changed the dynamics around the kitchen table. Modern societal influences have strayed away from a traditional approach to continuous technological advances. The premature exposure of technology in the course of early childhood has had a negative impact on traditional Hispanic family dynamics because the role of the kitchen table is no longer...
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...Information Systems MN5121 Competing with IS Yasaman Soltan-Zadeh y.soltan-zadeh@rhul.ac.uk Office: MX 120 Competing with IS • Does IT Matter? • IS and Competitive Advantage • The New Competitive Paradigm Does IT Matter? • Can IT provide a strategic advantage? • Is it sustainable? • Carr, Nicholas (2003), “IT doesn’t matter”, Harvard Business Review, May 2003, pp. 41-49. – “As information technology’s power and ubiquity have grown, its strategic importance has diminished. The way you approach IT investment and management will need to change dramatically” (Carr, 2003) IT Doesn’t Matter! • Information Technology: – Proprietary Technology vs. Infrastructural Technology • The Commoditization of IT – Transport mechanism – more valuable shared rather than isolated – Interconnectivity and interoperability – Standardisation of technology and homogenisation of its functionality – Highly replicable – Rapid price deflation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO2dCaaSDk8 IT Doesn’t Matter! • From Offence to Defence – Spend less – Follow, don’t lead – Focus on vulnerabilities, not opportunities Does IT matter? • Inherently strategic because of indirect effects • Creates possibilities and options that did not exist before • May become ubiquitous! The insight to harness the potential is not distributed evenly. Does IT matter? Three broad lessons • Extracting value from IT requires innovations in business practices. • IT’s economic impacts comes from incremental...
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...Jennifer Richards Burgess English II 8 October 2015 Technology: Helping or Hindering the Human Mind? I'm at a constant battle with the modern day technology. I often feel like I was born in the wrong era, as an overwhelming amount of new technology is constantly being introduced. We are in an age where we have any answer to any question at our fingertips, we are all connected through social media, and we live in a 'selfie' culture. However, is all of this technology good for us and moving us forward, or is it making us regress as a species? The question made me curious, so I dove into research. The first step in my research was the most obvious, I typed in 'Does technology decrease intelligence?' into Google. The first article that popped up was from Medical Daily' and after looking at the sources and the page, I decided it was a pretty credible read. The article makes many good points, an interesting one being that technology literally affects us physically. Through studies done, they found technology lowered our levels of gray matter. Working out where to go ourselves creates mental maps and creates more stimuli in the brain, though we give that up when using GPS. That same concept also applies to learning-instead of learning on our own anymore, we look up answers online. It's been proven that when we self teach and find our answers through work we create more brain stimuli, and we retain the information better. Contemporary technology has weakened our capacity for deep...
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...Task 1 Answer to Discussion Question: 1. When developing a successful data warehouse, what are the most important risks and issues to consider and potentially avoid? Data warehouse projects have many risks. Most of them are also found in other IT projects, but data warehousing risks are more serious because data warehouses are expensive, time-and-resource demanding, large-scale projects. Each risk should be assessed at the inception of the project. When developing a successful data warehouse, it is important to carefully consider various risks and avoid the following issues: • Starting with the wrong sponsorship chain. You need an executive sponsor who has influence over the necessary resources to support and invest in the data warehouse. You also need an executive project driver, someone who has earned the respect of other executives, has a healthy skepticism about technology, and is decisive but flexible. You also need an IS/IT manager to head up the project. • Setting expectations that you cannot meet. You do not want to frustrate executives at the moment of truth. Every data warehousing project has two phases: Phase 1 is the selling phase, in which you internally market the project by selling the benefits to those who have access to needed resources. Phase 2 is the struggle to meet the expectations described in Phase 1. For a mere $1 to $7 million, hopefully, you can deliver. • Engaging in politically naive behavior. Do not simply state that a data warehouse will help...
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...Wal-Mart Just In Time Just In Time - A Business Strategy for Efficiency and Cost Reduction The retail industry has long sought to improve their bottom line by strategically pricing their merchandise to maximize profits while remaining competitive. This paper addresses one approach utilizing an emerging technology for inventory tracking: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). Introduction A typical concern of all retail establishments is maximizing profits while maintaining customer loyalty. Now where this is more of a concern than with the Big-Box stores such as, Target and Wal-Mart in the United States. These stores offer a wide variety of goods and provide a “one-stop” shopping experience for their customers. The challenge for the store is to provide the variety and availability of merchandise without the high cost of inventory storage and over-stocking. Consequently, the goal is to have the merchandise available to their customers, “just in time” for them to make the purchase. These stores have a greater challenge than the warehouse club stores such as Costco and Sam’s Club because they require their members to buy in quantity. This paper will focus on the special problem that non-warehouse club stores encounter in selling smaller quantities and describe the “just in time” philosophy and how it is applied in today’s retail industry. A case history of how Wal-Mart is applying this approach to their operation and some of their implementation challenges. Addressing...
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...association with other things towards, its traditional focus intensely on personal computers. Apple has about 35,000 employees worldwide and had worldwide once a year event sales of US$32.48 billion in its money-related year ending September 29, 2008.For reasons as assorted different as its way of thinking of complete and thorough beauty-related design to its clear/separate advertising campaigns, Apple has decided on a unique reputation in the devices industry. This includes a customer predicate that sticks to the company and its brand, especially in the United States. Fortune magazine has chosen Apple, the most greatly respected company in the United States in 2008 and in the world in 2009. PESTEL POLITICAL Political factor gives a big influence to Apple for...
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...Neuron Perspective Children, Wired: For Better and for Worse Daphne Bavelier,1,* C. Shawn Green,2 and Matthew W.G. Dye3 of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 3Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA *Correspondence: daphne@bcs.rochester.edu DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.035 2Department 1Department Children encounter technology constantly at home and in school. Television, DVDs, video games, the Internet, and smart phones all play a formative role in children’s development. The term ‘‘technology’’ subsumes a large variety of somewhat independent items, and it is no surprise that current research indicates causes for both optimism and concern depending upon the content of the technology, the context in which the technology immerses the user, and the user’s developmental stage. Furthermore, because the field is still in its infancy, results can be surprising: video games designed to be reasonably mindless result in widespread enhancements of various abilities, acting, we will argue, as exemplary learning tools. Counterintuitive outcomes like these, besides being practically relevant, challenge and eventually lead to refinement of theories concerning fundamental principles of brain plasticity and learning. Introduction It is Monday morning at 7:58 a.m....
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...Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited Introduction A modest entity in the serene Himalayan settings - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) was set up as a Commission on August 14, 1956. The company became a corporate on June 23, 1993, which has now grown into a full-fledged horizontally integrated petroleum company. Today, ONGC is a flagship public sector enterprise and India’s highest profit making corporate, achieving the record of being the first Indian corporate to register a five digit profit figure of Rs. 10,529 Crore in the year 2002-03. The Indian government holds 74.14% equity stake in this company. ONGC has produced more than 600 million metric tonnes of crude oil and supplied more than 200 billion cubic metres of gas since its inception, thus fuelling the increasing energy requirements of the Indian economy. Today, ONGC is the most valuable company in India, contributing 77 percent of India’s crude oil production and 81 per cent of India’s natural gas production. ONGC is one of Asia's largest and most active companies involved in exploration and production of oil. It is involved in exploring for and exploiting hydrocarbons in 26 sedimentary basins of India. It produces about 30% of India's crude oil requirement. It owns and operates more than 11,000 kilometres of pipelines in India. ONGC has made six new discoveries, at Vasai West (oil and gas) in Western Offshore, GS-49 (gas) and GS-KW (oil and gas) in Krishna-Godavari Offshore, Chinnewala...
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...Implications of modern day gadgets to grade 7 students' classroom performance" Chapter 2 : Many parents are under the belief that technology and gadgets are essential for a child's development, but can you go too far? How much time should a child spend in front of a screen is a question being asked not just by worried parents but psychologists, health organizations and even governments. Read an expert's guidelines for managing a child's screen time, and his warnings on the dangers of recreational screen time, especially before bedtime. A new TLF Panel survey conducted on behalf of kids clothing retailer Vertbaudet.co.uk found that four in five parents believe technology and gadgets are good for kids, aiding in their development. The study found that 37 percent of parents asked said that their child spent between one and two hours a day playing with tech gadgets, and 28 percent said between two- and three hours. Moreover, the study found that 38 percent of two- to five-year-olds own an Android tablet, and 32 percent own an iPad; almost a third (32 percent) of these kids also have a mobile phone. The reason behind all this gadget use: over a third of parents (35 percent) said they use tech gadgets to entertain their children because they are convenient, and nearly a quarter (23 percent) because they want their children to be tech-savvy. A 2015 survey of 1,000 British mothers of children aged 2 to 12 found that 85 percent of mums admit to using technology...
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...Michael Dieter Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture Universiteit van Amsterdam 1 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction / 3 2. Chapter 1 – History of Cybernetics theory, Systems Theory, Cyborg and Posthumanism / 6 2.1. Introduction to Norbert Wiener’s theory of cybernetics / 6 2.2. Gregory Bateson on second-order cybernetics / 8 2.3. The kinship between human, animal and machine, Donna Haraway’s theory of the cyborg / 12 2.4. The disembodiment of the human being, Katherine N. Hayles’ theory of the posthuman / 14 3. Chapter 2 – Google Glass, Individuation and the Black Box / 21 3.1. Introduction to Google Glass / 21 3.2. Google Glass and Gregory Bateson’s theory of self-corrective systems / 24 3.3. Industrialization of memory through Google Glass and Bernard Stiegler’s theory of the exterior milieu / 26 3.4. Google Glass as a black box and W. Ross Ashby’s theory of the black boxing / 29 3.5. Experience Design, Olia Lialina and the disappearing user / 30 3.6. Miniaturization of technology, Google Glass as a ubiquitous computer through Mark Weiser’s theory / 32 4. Chapter 3 – Google Glass as an Extension of the Human Being: MediumSpecificity and Becoming Posthuman / 34 4.1 Media ecology through Marshall McLuhan and Google Glass as an extension of the human being / 34 4.2 Perceptual and behaviour change through Google Glass / 39 4.3 Change of time and space perception, McLuhan and the global village / 41 4.4 Human being’s freedom to ideological change through Donna...
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...Context of the Technology – Randall 6 c. Chuck Hall 6 i. Time line. 7 d. A 3D Printer in Every Home 7 IV. How New is the Technology? – Jerry 8 e. Is it Really Printing? 8 V. The Technology’s Potential to Disrupt Industries – Jerry 9 VI. Communicating With the 3D Printer – Jerry 9 f. The Process 10 ii. The 8-step process. 10 g. Reducing the Development Time 11 VII. Economic Considerations – Jerry 11 h. Rapid Prototyping 12 i. What Is the ROI? 12 j. Manufacturing Processes 13 iii. Economies of scale. 13 k. The Level of Interest 14 iv. Digitizing creative content. 14 v. Is it your creation? 15 l. Localization vs. Outsourcing 15 VIII. The Psychological Perspective & Social Effect – Jerry 16 m. A Paradigm Shift 16 n. Employment and Retraining 16 IX. Political and Legal Influences – Bol 17 X. The Technology in its Cultural Context, Media Influences – Bol 23 XI. 3D Printing: Environmental, Moral and Ethical Implications – Jiro 25 o. Environmental Implications of 3D Printing 25 vi. Waste reduction. 26 vii. Carbon...
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...From Followers to Market Leaders: Asian Electronics Firms in the Global Economy Henry Wai-chung Yeung Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 (Tel: 65-6516 6810; Fax: 65-6777 3091; Email: HenryYeung@nus.edu.sg; Homepage: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm) Forthcoming in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.48(1), pp.1-30, 2007. Acknowledgement An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Asia Pacific Viewpoint Lecture at the International Geographical Union Regional Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 3-7 July 2006. I would like to thank Asia Pacific Viewpoint and the editor, Warwick Murray, for inviting and funding me to deliver the lecture. Conference participants also offered some useful comments. The paper was subsequently revised and reworked while I was a Visiting Researcher at the International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development (ICSEAD), Kitakyushu, Japan, 10 July to 9 September 2006. I am very grateful to ICSEAD for its generous Visiting Researcher scheme and ICSEAD colleagues for their comments on an earlier version of this paper that was presented at an ICSEAD public seminar and appeared as an ICSEAD Working Paper (No.2006-16). Further helpful comments from anonymous reviewers are much appreciated. The NUS Academic Research Fund (R-109-000-050-112) supports the research project underpinning this paper. I am grateful to all corporate and institutional interviewees for their generosity and helpfulness...
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...BIT 2305: HCI Introduction 1. Introduction to HCI Humans 2. Human Cognition 3. Perception and Representation 4. Attention and Memory 5. Knowledge and Mental Models 6. Interface metaphors Interactions 7. Input 8. Output 9. User Support 10. Interaction Styles 11. Information Architecture and Web Navigation User-Centred Design 12. User-Centred Design 13. Methods for User-Centred Design 14. User-Centred Web Design 15. Usability Engineering 16. Guidelines and Standards 17. Prototyping 18. Evaluation 1 Computer Supported Cooperative Work Cooperative working Classification of CSCW systems Groupware Systems Organization contributions. Applications of multimedia systems in learning, computer vision, and entertainment. 2 BIT 2305: HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION INTRODUCTION TO HCI Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is concerned with studying ways to design, prototype, evaluate and implement user interfaces that are easy to learn, efficient and pleasant to use. Often it is hard to learn a new tool. This is particularly the case in the complicated world of the computer where there are many different technologies (software tools) and many different ways to access them (different hardware and different screen layouts). Bridging the gap between the technology and the user – making the technology easy to learn and easy to use – is concern and the task of the “user interface”. User refers to the different people who might be using a certain tool. In these...
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