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Engineering Ethics

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  Case study: Smart homes for older people with disabilities Case Study 1. Activity:   Technical analysis   – Before the ethical questions can be considered, the students might consider a number of immediate technical questions that will help inform the discussion on ethical issues. A sample data set or similar technical problem could be used for this analysis.   For example: Is it possible to ascertain whether a breach has actually happened and data has been accessed? A thorough investigation should take place to determine whether a breach had occurred. There should be an analysis taken of the system logs, the network trafficking and other data records. What data may have been compromised? It can include personal details such as financial, health records, video and audio records. Is a breach of this kind preventable, and could it be better prevented in the future? This could be preventable if there were measures in place for any vulnerabilities. The improvement of s...

Recommender

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 Recommender system   A recommender system is subclass of information filtering that suggest items to a user, tailored to their preferences and also mostly these types of system are useful when the user are given with many items to choose. This recommender system is widely used in online platforms where it suggests many things like music, movies and many other contents to the user according to their preferences. Two types of recommender system: 1. Collaborative Filtering:        . User-Based Collaborative Filtering: This is a type of recommender system which finds the similar preferences of the user and suggests them according to it. Suppose, person A likes 1,2,3 movies and person B likes 2,3,4 movies then it suggest person B 4 movies.       . Item-Based Collaborative Filtering: This is a type of recommender system which find the similarities between the items that the user had liked before and suggest items according to it. 2. Content -...

MIDI Instrument

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 Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is an instrument which  allows any other electronic devices, computers to connect with each other that can make and control the sounds. MIDI can represent different aspects of music such as pitch, volume and notes etc. Hardware required . Arduino Uno . USB lead . LDR .Switch . 10k resistor . 220r resistor . Midi to USB interface First connect your arduino to pc . Then  go to files> exmples> communiication> Midi MIDI Standard: MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is a type instrument which is used for connecting devices which can make sound and also control the sound like computers and samplers , also with the help of MIDI messages they can communicate with eachother. Some examples of standard are; 1. ISO 9000: It gives direction and devices to association to guarantee their items.  2. USB : A type for interfacing peripherals to PCs and different gadgets. It gives a typical point of interactio...

accessibility

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  Activity 1 - Real Users For the following pictures decide what existing or fantasy input/output devices would benefit them. Remember people have five senses sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, so you might want to create devices for each of them – there is also the possibility of direct brain input. Look at the users and make assumptions on what I/O devices would benefit them. Either a corporate worker, telephone operator, telemarketer Input Devices: Computer Keyboard:  Used for typing and entering data. Mouse or Trackpad:  Enables navigation and interaction with graphical user interfaces. Touchscreen:  Some devices, such as laptops or tablets, may have touchscreens for direct interaction. Scanner:  Used to convert physical documents or images into digital format. Barcode Scanner:  Common in inventory management or asset tracking. Biometric Devices:  Such as fingerprint scanners or facial recognition for security and authentication. Microphones ...
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Multi-Sensor Health Monitor - Arduino Project   April 03, 2024   The final year project we've created an health monitor application which detected your heart rate along with the orientation of which you hold the device. It also indicates in various colours based on the amount of beats per minutes collected.  There were many issues that occurred with this project from the thought processes to initialising how to make each part work then combined. As the weeks rolled by things became clearer and provided a positive outcome. The concept and development of this project was challenging as there was a difficulty reading the data with the leads and electrodes to the replacement of what output would be used. It was a constant trial and error with various amounts of researching and testing. However, there is an issue where the electrodes work perfectly using just the heart rate and RGB coding but when combined with the MPU92/65 sensor it was difficult to spot where the mistake was...