Samiha Choudhury

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• the Powers of Persuasion
• Summmary: A director from the Persuasive Technology Laboratory at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, named B. J. Fogg talks about how technology has been influeing "behavior." Frogg teaches people persuasive technologies for determing the behavior and been directing people to Facebook and Google. A book that he is writing is called "Facebook taps into our need to belong" which involves the concept of psychology of the social-networking site. There, Frogg is working on his different projects so he can successfully find the answer. The stakeholders are B. J. Fogg, the Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vitality, a graduate student from the Stanford University, Zaw Thet (Stanford's graduate student), and Scott Kleper (graduate student from Stanford). One of the student who worked with Frogg had named persuasion filed "captology" because this refered to the topic computers as persuasive technology. Throughout his studies he had learned many new and interesting ideas about persuasion techonlogies which is said in this qoute "Technology allows you to trigger behaviors in new ways, motivate in new ways, then simplify, automate, and scale up," Frogg says to to the people. This article is an example of equality of access which means that anyone can access some type of thing. In here, anyone can view his experiment of Persuasive Technology such as his articles, web sites, books, etc. For the impact, this would be Science and Environment because it's dealing with Persuasive Technology and how the behavior acts. I think that this is something that's new to me because Frogg is trying to introduce the people about Persuasive Technology which I've never had heard before.

• Frogg states about his thoughts about Persuasive Technology projects which can benefit peoples' health and behaviors that effects the environment. In fact, many designs for Persuasive Technology are being tested such as the clinical trial, University of California, San Diego, for seeing if text messages, electronic nudges, etc would benefit the college students so that this can imporve their eating habits.

9/29/10

• while driving bans don't work, may actually hurt, study finds
• Summary: There have been researches from Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI)had stated about people text when they are driving. Although, this had now became a major issue because this is causing all the people to get injured or even being killed. "Textng bans haven't reduced crashes at all. In a perverse twist, crashes increased in 3 of the 4 states we studied after bans were enacted. It's an indication that texting bans might even increase the risk of texting for drivers who continue to do so despite the laws," is said by Adrian Lund who is from the Governors Highway Safety Association Governor's president. His opinions infers to how this is risking the people's lives. The stakeholders are Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) researcher's and Adrian Lund who wants to best help for preventing drivers from accidents, crashes, being killed, etc. The Social and Ethical issues is policy and standard because many people don't follow the rules and regulations of VA. Therefore, they break the law and thinks that they can get away with texting when driving. The impact is Arts, Entertainment,and leisure because this is impacting on how people disobey the laws and being careless by texting. Sine Lund says that he want to ban about texting when your driving. I agree with Lund about texting because the more people will text the more problems there will be. On the other hand, this makes me feel mad because I don't understand why people with common sense do crazy things.
• In California (January 2009), Louisiana (July 2008), Minnesota (August 2008), and Washington (January 2008) there have been millions of people who died from texting during driving. As you can see, there were many losses for just doing one mistake. The more they continue to do this the more effect it will take during later years.

9/21/10

• New Compass Uses Light Beams to Detect Magnetic Field
• Summary: There are new compasses that uses light beams for detecting Magnetic field was created stated by a group of physicists. The compasses beams light through the rubidium atoms which can measure the size and the orientation of the magnetic field. Inside the compass there are build-in local magnetic field in order to find the direction and also it rebuilds the compass itself. The stakeholders are Zibrov along with his colleagues and they had tested the compass for pinpointing the compass at the right direction. They had eventually trapped the rubidium-87 atoms at the 113 degrees Fahrenheit. This relates to people because this would affect them. The compasses only have little energy for use and it's not that big. To me, it seems to be a modern invention of compasses and it is easier to use. Also, this tool might be helpful for education uses. I think that there should be better compasses.
• The New compasses can detect directions for magnetic field.

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• Hack Turns $170 Media Viewer Into Tablet
• Summary: This article is about how hackers have hacked electronically had made Webkit-basic browser for using the device program in order to run all the applications. This had became a big issue because they used "tablet" for puting it in to ipad. The people that controls the information should have more security systems from preventing hacking.
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