Site Visit to iExperience

I went to iExperience on the 14th of July at about 4pm. When i first saw the area, i thought it was going to be boring. However, the introduction video that was played on the user-interface screen allowed me to understand more about iExperience. There are 4 different types of areas: Interact, Work, Live and Learn. These four areas are all very interesting and i liked all the new technology that were introduced to us.

We were asked to test the user-interface screen where someone has to step on the platform and an animated character will appear and talk to the person which can be seen below. It was very fascinating and cool but it was a little buggy and the voice is a little incorrect.

 This is the food machine that only requires an app to work. Basically, the users need to place his/her phone over the item that they would like to purchase and the app will identify the item. They can also select the quantity and the date of delivery which is very advanced.

The 3 pictures above shows users about online shopping. For example, a girl would like to buy some make-up but she cant try them on, using this technology, you can 'try' the make-up. All you need to do is to take a picture of yourself via the mounted camera at the top of the machine and then adjust your mouth, eyes and lips structure. Then select the make-up you would like to try and its done! You also can add visual effects to the picture too to make it look nicer.

This is known as the next gen office. It enables greater productivity and effectiveness as regardless the nature of work, you can use infocomm to work more efficiently. This allows you to use powerful computing resources, work with colleagues and customers in different locations, attend classes without leaving the office and manage facilities and security in the office through video.

This part of the iExperience is my favourite. I feel that it is very advanced and cool. Just by taking a group photo and sending it to your email and then get another software to convert the picture into a bus advertisement on a moving bus is really cool. You can also add your own captions too! How cool is that!

The picture above shows how connecting at home works. In the picture, you can see a grandmother in the hospital talking to her children at home via internet television and further behind in the picture on the other screen is the children's view talking to their grandmother. This is a new thing and besides talking to others, you can surf the internet normally and you can also watch 'youtube' with this! I am quite surprised that it actually works.

I feel that BLING cloud computing interests me the most. I am amazed that you can take a picture of something and then import the picture wirelessly to another computer and make that picture into a movable object like an advertisement on a moving bus.

Personally, I feel that if I were to be able to learn though experience rather than theory, I would be able to understand better. Therefore, I feel that the E-Learning site visit is actually better to me rather than class lessons.

 

One ethical issue covered in Lecture 11 and 12 is blogging ethics. We should only create a blog when we need one and ensure that we do not make spelling or grammar mistakes. We should also provide a citation of the source of the information used on our blog and should submit posts regularly. Also, we should be careful not to blog about our employer, avoid defaming and posting racist or religious comments.

This ethical issue can be applied to my visit to iExperience. Not everyone is really interested in this kind of technology. So if they were to blog about iExperience, they might defaming iExperience and say that it is lousy and give a lot of negative comments. One example is the user interface screen which will activate if a person steps on the platform. Sometimes the interface is bugged and the animated character does not do what it is supposed to do and the speech is not properly configured.

If there were to be any problems that they have experienced there, they should limit themselves from posting comments that might defame them. For example, if they feel that it is lousy and does not interest them, they should not talk more about it or maybe only comment a bit like “ The BLING cloud computing seems to be very advanced but I do not find anything about it that interests me.”