At the company's I/O 2015 keynote moments ago, Google unveiled a new feature that lets Android's personal assistant examine whatever is happening on your screen and automatically take relevant actions.
With an email about movies on screen, you can simply tap and hold on the screen and Google Now will present detailed Cards for each of the films. ... If you're texting someone about dinner ideas, Google Now can automatically pull up restaurant ratings and the hours for any place mentioned in the conversation.
When you tap and hold the home button, Google gives you options that are a best guess of what might be helpful to you in the moment. But if you need something specific, you can also get Google to help by saying "Ok Google" from any screen, and any app. For example, if you’re listening to Twenty One Pilots on Spotify, you can say "Ok Google, who’s the lead singer" and get your answer right away.
Google Now's expanded functionality comes amid rumours that Apple is working to build a service resembling Google's for iOS 9, slated to be unveiled at the company's own developer conference early next month. Microsoft also recently announced that its Cortana assistant is coming to Android, but with the scope of what Google is trying to pull off here, Now on Tap could render Cortana obsolete when Android M is released in Q3.
Criterion A — The issue and stakeholder(s) [4 marks]
1. (a) Describe one social/ethical concern related to the IT system in the article.
One ethical/ social concern related to the IT system is privacy, as by using the new google now on tap feature, it will look on your screen and find key words that you are currently searching to “guess what might be helpful to you in the moment”
(b) Describe the relationship of one primary stakeholder to the IT system in the article.
Users of android devices will find this IT system much more convenient when searching things on the web. As they need to take a picture or look at messages, then the system is able to help them search what they are looking for.
Criterion B — The IT concepts and processes [6 marks]
2. (a) Describe, step by step, how the IT system works. (Google now on tap)
- Using the phone's camera, the user takes a photo or using the phone’s messaging app, it will detect key words that the user might find helpful in searching
- Then user holds the “home” button to activate the google now app
- Then the system then picks up key words on the screen or the picture that is displayed on the screen. Using edge detection for pictures and key words for words
- Then the system looks through the database to which results would best fit the thing that is being searched.
- Then the result will be displayed on the screen.
(b) Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical concern described in
Criterion A.
- Because the system is able to see what is on your display and is search relevant items based on your display. Privacy idssues come in as the potential of hacking into the server to see what is on your screen, or what you have been previously searching for will be known if it were to get hacked.
Criterion C — The impact of the social/ethical issue(s) on stakeholders [8 marks]
3. Evaluate the impact of the social/ethical issues on the relevant stakeholders.
Users of this android device will find this new system very useful as they are able to search for relevant things or “things that might be helpful to them” with just one button away. By using that simple system, it makes searching for data much easier as it will pick up the keywords from the user’s screen. This is good for google as they developed new software together with edge detection, databases and some artificial intelligence. to search data much quicker. However, the data that is being searched from the user’s screen. Then hacking the system of google will result security and privacy issues as it will invade the security of google’s servers and the privacy of the user’s phone as it hacks into their display and know what is going on. If google’s servers would be hacked then it would cause a huge leak in other various data as google stores data in its database. Also it would be seen who has been searching what allowing more privacy and security issues to occur. For the user it will be an invasion of privacy as if the data is being hacked , the hacker would know what kind of data the user is searching and could be able to get personal information about the user. To conclude, this system will help benefit google as they are able to create new technology similar to AI from databases, edge detection and their knowledge of AI to help the user’s experience in searching data much quicker. However because of this system, if it were to be hacked, then the privacy and security of google will be infiltrated together with the user as the hacker would know where the data is stored and what data the user is looking for.
4.Evaluate one solution that addresses at least one problem identified in Criterion C
One solution that will help the problem of hacking would be to improve the security of the software by using encryption. Although google has a very strong security in their data, the sending of data from the mobile device to the google's server must have a security
A: 3 - you didn't really describe the relationship
ReplyDeleteB: 2/3 (probs 3) - little IT terminology and didn't give enough description for the step-by-step
C: 4
D: 0 - you know why
This post is okay; you are able to identify stakeholders and social/ethical benefits and issues, but I feel you could elaborate a bit more on them as well as describe any relevant technology in further detail (e.g. With what methods is Google Now detecting words and edges?). In addition, your use of ITGS-relevant vocabulary is rather sparse, so understanding it would be beneficial to these responses. Also, you do not currently have a Criterion D; taking all of this into consideration, I will give you a mark of 11/20.
ReplyDeleteIt turns out these are actually out of 26 marks and not 20 as I had previously thought, so you get 11/26.
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