Zusammenfassung der Ressource
IB ITGS AREAS OF IMPACT
- 1. Business and
Employment
- Transportation
Anmerkungen:
- Rreservation systems, luggage processing, navigation, scheduling and distribution, traffic simulation, smart roads and cars, fuel efficiency and traffic safety systems
- Employment
Anmerkungen:
- electronic employee monitoring, telecommuting, ergonomics and health, job obsolescence and retraining, online job search, employee surveillance
- Ecommerce
Anmerkungen:
- teleshopping, online marketing, data mining, spyware
- Teleshopping
- Online marketing
- Data minging
- Spyware
- Banking and finance:
Anmerkungen:
- EFT, ATMs, Internet banking and brokerage, electronic cash, insurance
- eft
- Electronic funds transfer (EFT) is the electronic transfer of
money from one bank account to another, either within a
single financial institution or across multiple institutions, via
computer-based systems, without the direct intervention of
bank staff.
- ATM
- Internet Banking and brokerage
- Electronic cash
- International commerce
Anmerkungen:
- management of transnational corporations, business concentration
- 2. Education
- Computer-aided
learning
Anmerkungen:
- Science experiments
• Social studies • Modeling and simulation • Instructional tools and media I •Computer-aided instruction • Computer aided learning
- Telelearning
Anmerkungen:
- Isolated and remote areas • Use in hospitals Use in hospitals
• Prisons Prisons
• Retirement homes
- Software in school administration
Anmerkungen:
- Record keeping • Scheduling • Intranets Intranets
• Public information information
- Training
Anmerkungen:
- Social and Ethical Issues The balance in
responsibility between an individual and an
organization for training The need for IT
companies to consider global and cultural
diversity when preparing training and
tutorial software The requirement of
orgnaizations to provide training when
implementing change.
- Tutorial Software training Software wizards and assistants help
menu and help features "Read Me" files
- Modification of hardware and software f for special needs
Anmerkungen:
- Voice recognition software
• Text-to-speech
• Special input and output devices • Internet resources
- 3. Health
- Patient
data
Anmerkungen:
- Privacy
Data analysis
Public health
- Computer-related injuries
- Diagnostic and therapeutic tools
Anmerkungen:
- Robotic surgery • Prosthetic devices • Diagnostic software • Drug development and marketing
- Telemedicine:
Anmerkungen:
- • Service delivery to isolated and remote areas
- 4. Arts, Entertainment
and Leisure
- Television
and cinema
Anmerkungen:
- Digital simulations • Characters and animation
Digital effects • Choreography • Lighting • Marketing
- Portable, downloadable music
Anmerkungen:
- Electronic music • Interactive visual art • Desktop publishing
- Computer games
Anmerkungen:
- CD or online games C • Online gambling
- Broadcast media:
Anmerkungen:
- Digital radio and television electronic news
- 5. Science and Environment
- Data
Anmerkungen:
- Data search Collection Processing and analysis Forecasting Data logging
- Computer recycling
- Modelling and simulation:
Anmerkungen:
- Digital experimentation • Demographic and environmental simulation
- Social and Ethical Issues Reliability of predictions
based on computer models, for example, weather,
global warming economic effects of the use of
models to design and test new products security
issues involved in military simulations social
impact of reliance on simulations to examine
issues of public policy responsibility of the
designer for accuracy of assumptions underlying
the model ethical considertions involved in
deciding when to use models or simulation to
ensure human safety.
- Key terms model simulation feedback loop
faulty or hidden assumptions extent and
effect of the simplification of reality extent to
which the phenomenon being modelled is
understood processing power needed to
create complex models visualization of
information correspndence of the model wth
reality
- Forecasting
- Visualization
Anmerkungen:
- 6. Politics and government
- Politics process
Anmerkungen:
- Voting and elections • Lobbying
- State security
- Government
administration
Anmerkungen:
- Record keeping • Tax collection • Policy implementation
- Rebel and terrorist
- Police
Anmerkungen:
- DNA data collection • Video surveillance
- Surveillance
- Military
Anmerkungen:
- Cyberwarfare • Smart weapons development • Espionage