Chapter 13:
Home and Leisure
What is Home and Leisure?
� This is the technology all around you!
� Any form of technology that brings you
news and/or entertainment
� Examples include:
� Smart Phones
� Tablets
� Laptops
Smart Homes
Smart home technology (aka home
automation) uses information
technology to improve the
convenience, security, and energy
efficiency of buildings (ITGS
Textbook).
Many are common but some only
exist in the home of the rich and
famous or research laboratories.
Home Network
� Centralizes control and allows many aspects of
the house to be controlled from a mobile device.
� Including:
� Temperature
� Lights
� Door Locks
� Other home appliances
Smart Home Benefits
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Comfort
Convenience
Increased security
Reduced consumption of resources
� Smart Meters: Allow families to see
breakdowns of water, electricity, and other
resource consumption.
� Safety
� Project Gerhome: Smart home for elderly
people.
Biometrics
� Scans a body part for
authentication
purposes.
� Eyes
� Finger
� Hand
� Voice and facial
patterns
Piracy
With the increase in the
amount of access to the
internet lead to the increase in
the amount of
ILLEGAL
downloads of copyrighted
material.
Examples of peer-to-peer sites:
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Piratebay
Limewire
BitSnoop
Torrentz
Piracy (cont.)
� Prevention:
� Motion Picture Association of America
� Recording Industry Association of America
� These associations educate users about
copyright infringement.
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
� Refers to technologies that limit what a user can
do with a digital file
� DVD’s are a prime example:
� Use a form of DRM called Content
Scrambling System which prevents illegal
copies from being made
Encrypted DVD content
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
� DRM’s can be applied to data in a copious
amount of ways:
� Prevent printing of a book (PDF)
� Expire content after a certain date
� Prevent copying and pasting
� Prevent making copies
� Restrict the number of copies
� Restrict a certain file from being seen
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
� DRM’s can cause compatibility issues with
some systems.
� It can be fairly easy to remove DRM using a
special software.
� Keep in mind that this is ILLEGAL
under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Digital Entertainment
� Mobile games (apps)
� Online games
� Video games
Technological developments enable increasingly
advanced gaming on smaller devices.
Types of Gaming
� Massively Multiplayer Online
Games (MMOG) or Massively
Multiplayer Online Role Playing
Games (MMORPG)
� Typically features fantasy or
magical themes, require
players to create an avatar.
� Complete missions or
questions
� World of Warcraft
� Virtual Worlds: similar to
MMOG, but lack defined
objectives and allows the
player to “live” in the
world.
� Sims
� Second Life
� Club Penguin
Concerns
Examples of Health concerns
include:
� Players not getting enough
exercise
� Players being addicted to the
game to where their
education, work, and personal
lives.
Even extreme cases can cause death
due to exhaustion from playing a
game several days straight.
Gaming addiction in Korea:
–80% of the population have access to some
of the fastest broadband connections in the
world.
–Obsessive gaming is a thing and caused a 24
year old man to die from heart failure after
playing online for 86 hours NON-STOP.
–Also there was a death of a 3 year old girl
because her parents were too addicted to
online gaming that they neglected her.
They have developed counseling centers
across the country and have “boot camps”
for seriously addicted teenagers
Concerns
� Violence
� Higher resolution displays
� Faster graphic processors
� Improved sound effects
� The use of input devices to imitate real life weapons
� These lead people to believe that seeing such realistic
violence and actually participating in it can lead to
psychological problems on kids.
Facts on Video games
� The military uses games to train their soldiers.
� This scares the anti-violent game campaigners to believe that
violent video games desensitize children.
� “... no credible evidence exists of a long term, direct correlation
between gaming and real life violence…” (ITGS textbook)
� There are actually some proven positive effects in playing video
games:
� Improved hand to eye coordination
� Logical thinking
� Physical Fitness
Online gaming
� It’s harder for content through
online games to be controlled.
� This is typically why you had to be
a certain age to create an account
for any online games.
� i. Club Penguin, WeeWorld
� The typical age limits were usually
13, 16, or 18.
Augmented reality
� Add a layer of digital information to our view of the
real world.
� Uses a combo of GPS and compass data, your
phone can determine its position and the direction
it’s pointing in.
� Example:
� Yellow 1st down line
Online News
� News aggregation sites: pick out the top headlines
from many news sites and display it on one page.
� The problem?
� Online newspapers believe that their articles
are being illegally copied.
� Paywalls: Systems that require payment to access
certain news articles, or after a certain amount of
articles have been read for free
Citizen journalism
� This is when news events are reported first by
normal people rather than media outlets.
� Think of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and
even YouTube.
� Concerns:
� Invasion of Privacy
� Ethics
Television
� Analog to digital
� Digital signals require less bandwidth
transmissions = HDTV
� Better quality (both audio and visual)
� Less susceptible to interference.
� Greater number of channels
� More expensive
� Video on Demand (VOD)- Miss an episode? No
problem.
E-books
� Electronic copies of books, magazines, and
newspapers.
� Some can be downloaded for free and others
you can purchase.
� Kindle, Nook, even your own cellphone
� E-book readers use electronic ink displays
rather than LCD.
� Consume less power
Digital Preservation
� Digital data does not wear out or decay and every
copy is a perfect copy of the original.
� Digitizing preserves films, books, maps, paintings,
and sound recordings.
� Digital restoration: the use of image processing
techniques to return works to their original quality or
even add effects that weren’t possible back then.
Pop Quiz
What is the “fancy name” for 3D printing?
Stereolithography!
Credits
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