CP102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: D2L, Weather Forecasting, Affective Computing
Document Summary
Social networking tools enable the gathering of groups if people to connect and exchange ideas, and they have brought together people facing repression and censorship in many countries. Social networking used in political campaigns now too. Crisis-mapping tools collects information from emails, texts, messages, and blog posts and makes it publicly available (map). Environment--data could alert scientists to new trends in environment. Digital divide is the wide gap of levels of internet access and the availability of technical tools in different regions of the world: prevents use of all minds of the world to solve global problems, ie aims, 2. 0: new set of features and functionality, international collaboration with ease. Cognitive surplus: combination of leisure time and tools to be creative. Autonomy: the freedom to work without constant direction and control no boss=freedom. Mastery: the feeling of confidence and excitement from seeing your own skills progress. Purpose: the understanding that you are working for something larger than yourself.
