Philosophers of Technology have often argued that technologies are value-laden rather than being merely value-neutral. One reason for thinking so is because the act of building or making always presupposes value-judgments about what we think is worth building or making in the first place. Put another way, what we make or build often reveals what we think is worth doing: making and building reveal what we take to be a problem, and whether that problem is worth solving.In Paper 1, you wrote about how introducing new technologies into different cultures require their people to adapt or change their lifestyles, including the sphere of life we might call the political (that is, how and where they work, how they think, how they live, how they form organizations and institutions, etc.). In Paper 3, you will do the same kind of analysis but with your senior project in mind.Give an account of your own values infrastructures (see the reading by Cook) that explain your intentions behind the design of your senior project. Assume that your senior design project is going to be adopted in a country outside the US and Canada. Consider the potential for conflict at the level of differing values infrastructures between you as a designer and the adopting population as end users.In your write up, be sure to:3. Assume that your design will be adopted in a country outside the US and Canada. Pick one country only.4. Give an account of your own values infrastructures that best explain your intentions behind your senior project. Consider the intentions behind your design and the intentions of your targeted end users. Can you anticipate or foresee unintentional consequences in your design? Can you foresee whether your design will be used ethically or unethically? Are there any ways you would not want your design to be used at all?
Grading rubric Write an essay that addresses the questions above. When you respond to these questions, you should be specific and cite specific details either from the readings, class lectures, or your own research. You must provide at least two references from your own research in addition to material provided by the course. Also, you should make sure to cite your sources in your response and include a reference list at the end of your essay. Citations must be from reputable sources. Sites like Wikipedia, about.com, etc. are NOT considered acceptable sources. Higher credit will be given for responses that show evidence of a systematic and comprehensive understanding of the topics involved.You are encouraged to review the rubric for this assignment and make sure that you answer each question in detail and with specifics.Correct use of English is a fundamental requirement for your papers to be graded. If errors in English make it difficult for a grader to understand your sentences, or excessively slow down the grader to mark your technical errors, your paper will be returned to you for further work on its English, and your grade for the paper will be deferred until it is resubmitted with corrected English. If your assignment is returned for an excessive number of grammatical errors, you will be allowed to rewrite and resubmit it within two weeks of the original return date. If not resubmitted by the date set by your instructor, you will receive a zero (0) for the writing assignment.FormattingStandard font, preferably Arial in either 11pt or 12pt.MLA, APA, or any other format is acceptable provided that it is consistent through the entire paper. Please, no cover sheets.
Thesis is clear and coherent throughout the entire paper.s of senior project design and its introduction to another country are clear andrelevant.Explanation of values infrastructures is clear and detailed.
Reflection upon ethics, intention, and design is clear and detailed.
Project abstract There are many students living with roommates. According to Zillow, 40% of young adults have roommates. However, living together with roommates can be difficult to plan out. There are always many problems such as who purchased and used items that roommates all share, and these issues can lead to heated arguments.
There are often disagreements among roommates when the one purchases an item, but another consumes the item because they do not know whose it is or whether it can be shared or not. A crude solution to this problem is labeling every item with the owners name and if it shared or not, but this solution is not practical when the amount of items becomes very large. Labeling helps others to know whose item it is, but does not solve the issue of helping you keep track of your items.
The project demonstrates a new way of organizing and distinguishing household items to solve the issues described above. The barcode scanner allows users to scans items with a Universal Product Code (UPC) and quickly add them to their inventory. The image recognition by machine learning algorithm recognizes and identifies items which do not have any barcode, so that much of the input data is automatically filled out. All this data is stored in a database that propagates to other users in the household the state of the item. This allows users to manage, keep track, share, and input their items with ease.The goal of this project is to facilitate the tracking and management of a single users mobile devices barcode and quickly add items into an inventory. The application identifies items that users own, quantities, prices and expiration dates of these items to a user or a household. The image recognition machine learning algorithm is used to identify items which do not have any barcode. The main objective of the project will be to use the camera on a mobile device to take an image of an object or use the image recognition machine learning to analyze it and identify it, in order to facilitate user data entry into their inventory.
roblem and MotivationKeeping track of your things can often be difficult, especially when living with others. For example, keeping track of items in a single pantry can be quite time-consuming and tedious. Sometimes items become forgotten and this can be especially wasteful for perishable items. Most people cannot keep track of all the items they own in their head and have an even harder time remembering the purchase date. Because most items that are bought from a store have a barcode, it makes inventory management rather simple. Unfortunately, some items have long since lost their packaging or do not have a barcode thus making a barcode only inventory application rather limited. Our project aims to tackle this problem with the aid of machine learning. This is in an effort to reduce waste and keep users better informed about the things they own while aiding households in better sharing their items.
The application of our project result is primarily to help ease the difficulties of group living and assists individuals and households in managing their collective and individual belongings. The purpose of our project result (an iPhone app in this case) is to identify and categorize items based on their look(by taking a picture of an item) or by scanning a barcode on them, keep track of how many or how much of a certain item is available in a household, predict if an item needs to be purchased based on previous item usage data and provide item usability information our project result helps household members to be more organized and more aware of what is that they have or they have not and make financially viable decisions, even with purchases that seem very insignificant when executed at a time but could have a major impact when added up through time.our project result data collected from the users is to be used to gather anonymous non-identifiable user data that can be used to aid in a variety of researchers and community studies. Such applications include researchers that deal with the consumption of a certain type of product and its relation to some type of illness, or the community study that deals with the financial status of a community or region and their purchasing habits.Our project result can be used to aid in academic initiatives by providing data that can be used in academic studies. , our product is expected to make an economic impact on households who will be using the product. This is due to the prospective reduction in unnecessary waste and purchases that is likely to occur when using the product.
