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Week 15 - Ethics

 Ethics Act Utilitarianism      Act utilitarianism is the single most beneficial theory in the world, period. It narrates that the 'right' course of action in any situation is one that would grant the most overall positive net gain to every party involved (or the least negative gain). This means that in every case, following the theory would provide the most good - being, on a surface level, the clear cut winner. However, it skips out the individual part - as long as one person's individual suffering would pay for a multitude of other people being happier, then it is all good in the eyes of this theory. Furthermore, it is very difficult to quantify just how 'valuable' an action is to any given person, as everyone has a different measuring stick and there is a whole lot to leave for interpretation in these scenarios. But how does this tie into IT?     Well, for this topic, I will sadly have to be as bland as one possibly can be and talk about self-driving cars. I kno

Paper Review - Onions

 Onions can make people cry The Form     Being the part of the article that drew me towards it in the first place, it also made me more skeptical towards the article as a whole. Whereas every single other project had a rather academic and concise name, this one had a name not perhaps very fitting of a regular Wikipedia article - instead seeming more like a journalist's take on a popular browser (Which the entire page reminded me of, though that is only natural, given that the light scope of the groupwork means going too in-depth is more of a detriment than anything else.       There were a few grammatical errors (Such as "Due to the bitcoin, the dark web has flourished"), but they were not all too prevalent throughout the entire page - one would assume that this entire thing was not really proofread either, given that it was mostly written just a few days before the final deadline. I am not sure if the group had a separate document file where they somehow shared and colla

Week 14 - Accessibility

 Accessibility Lucy     On the same note as the forum topic mentioning eye tracking, I figured I would talk about something I have always been interested in for people with disabilities. I myself do not know any such people on a personal level, but I find this solution to be the neatest. I have always been interested in "eye tracking", but it can be a bit inaccurate at times, though I feel like it would be enough for most disabilities. However, there exists another solution as well, which works off the same principle. A specific example of this would be Lucy4. Pretty much equivalent to using eye tracking to control something, except instead of eyes, one uses their head! This is magnitudes more accurate than eye tracking and would even enable people with ticks (involuntary head control) to be able to accurately give input, lest the ticks are really extremely major.      Probably one of the main disadvantages I've encountered with eye tracking when I tested it was that it i