One easily identifiable trend in the data is that when I felt tired, I was more tempted to use my phone and more likely to multi-task. Having down time and being tired made it more likely that I wanted some kind of distraction or something to do that would help to stimulate me so that…
Author: Jane Wu
IP 7 Digital Labour
References: Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI. Yale University Press. Duffy, B. E. (2017). (Not) getting paid to do what you love: Gender, social media, and aspirational work. Yale University Press. FunnyAndCuteCat’sLife. (2023, October 11). Funniest Cats 😹 Silliest Creature on Earth 😂 Funny Cats Videos 2023 [Video]. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsSus18EVj0&t=36s&ab_channel=FunnyAndCuteCat%27sLife IronFistDigitalMedia. (2023, October 11). Space Force – NetFlix…
IP 5 Global Health
Let me ask you a question: “if you are not a Canadian, do you have to verify your degree that you are about to get after you finish your MET program?” My answer is: I do. However, based on a policy enacted in 2018, the Ministry of Education in China classifies all completely online degrees…
IP 2 – Artificial Intelligence
Question 1 Alan Turing Alan Turing, an English Mathematician who highlights his talents in machine learning and cryptanalysis (Biography.com Editors, 2020). Some big milestones of his life are introducing the foundational idea of artificial intelligence and leading the argument of machine thinking (Biography.com Editors, 2020). The Turing Test is intended to assess a machine’s capacity…
IP 1 – Usability
Understanding of usability My understanding of usability after reading the chapter written by Issa & Isaias (2015) has come down to the following aspects. Good usability indicates that the product should be ease of use (intuitive, in another word) for people coming from different backgrounds with similar needs. It is also reasonable to expect a…
Truth & Reconciliation
In my apartment, on our vast bookshelves there is a book entitled “100 Photos That Changed Canada”. It ranges from a photo in 1847 of an Ojibway chief up to the “Olympic gold unites the nation” by Sidney Crosby in 2010 and many well known photos from Canadian History. Therefore, I decided to shift the…
Field Notes – The Last of Us
Session One What will I like/dislike about it? I will like the graphic design of the game. I will enjoy the story. I will like how badass I will be in the game. I get to control a character in the game and kill zombies. I might concern or possibly frustrated is also the new…
IP #7
The first stream I watched was by “Kobe” on Twitch who is a self-described “shoutcaster”. He has credentials as a champion of different League of Legends tournaments but mainly just commentates now. During the match I was watching, there were about 2,000 people watching the stream while Kobe boasts a subscriber base of 45,000 people. …
IP #4
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IP #8
Exercise 1.3 : Your Life as a Game List five areas of your life that could be games. Then briefly describe a possible underlying game structure for each. Since the following are areas from my life and the ideas are from real-life scenarios so a dominant theme of these games will be simulations of real…