11 - Building smart societies

Question 1

What are the three pillars of persuasive technology?

Answer 1

• the tool
• the medium
• the social actor

Question 2

What is persuasive technology?

Answer 2

Technology that is designed to change attitudes or behaviors of the users through persuasion and social influence

Question 3

In relation to persuasive technology, describe the tool.

Answer 3

The tool increases the user’s capability by facilitating the target behaviour.

Question 4

In relation to persuasive technology, describe the medium.

Answer 4

The medium provides experience by allowing people to explore cause and effect relationships.

Question 5

In relation to persuasive technology, describe the social actor.

Answer 5

The social actor creates the relationship by rewarding people with positive feedback and modelling the target behaviour. It also provides social support

Question 6

What is the Japan Moonshot project?

Answer 6

A project aimed at overcoming the problem of declining birthrates, ageing population and labour shortage.

Question 7

What is the goal of the Japan Moonshot project?

Answer 7

To create a society free from the limitations of the body, brain, space and time.

Question 8

What is a service robot?

Answer 8

It is a robot that performs useful tasks for humans or equipment, excluding industrial automation applications.

Question 9

When would you use service robot?

Answer 9

When the given task is dirty, dull, dangerous or repetitive.

Question 10

Give examples of service robots.

Answer 10

• Tour guide robots
• Receptionists robots
• Robots for sales promotion

Question 11

Give examples of robots in health care.

Answer 11

• Socially assistive robots for senior citizens
• Robots for people with autism spectrum disorder
• Robots for rehabilitation

Question 12

What problems could arise when using service robots?

Answer 12

• People might have expectations that can’t be met
• Addiction
• Robot abuse
• Attention deficiency
• Loss of interest

Question 13

What is the Internet of Things?

Answer 13

It describes multiple physical objects with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks.

Question 14

Why do people consider IoT a misnomer?

Answer 14

Devices do not need to be connected to the public internet, only to a network and individually addressable.

Question 15

What is business/domain logic?

Answer 15

The part of a program that encodes the real-world business rules that determine how data can be created, stored and changed.

Question 16

What are the requirements of IoT and what challenges are associated with them?

Answer 16

• Require low-power embedded systems (challenge: always has to be on and requires high performance)
• Cloud computing (data collected across the network can’t be stored and processed on local devices)
• Have to manage big data
• Network connection