Chatbots that relieve loneliness have a major downside, and we must safeguard against it.
- Professor & Director, Hub for Apple Platform Innovation (HAPI), School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University
Social apps like Instagram, TikTok and Facebook are designed to be addictive. What would they look like if we removed the worst features?
As far back as the dawn of the internet, scholars have discussed how AI might serve to replace (or supplement) human relationships.
Students’ evaluations can be very personal and many factors can skew survey responses. But surveys can be designed to produce more valid and reliable results that could be used to improve teaching.
The ABC’s decision to force viewers to create accounts to watch shows online raises concerns over privacy.
Beberapa mahasiswa mempertanyakan kenapa harus kembali kuliah tatap muka. Yang lain kesulitan belajar online. Dosen yang baik berfokus pada teknik mengajar, entah media apa pun yang mereka gunakan.
The latest system updates are not written to make your device slower. But because they’re written for new hardware, there’s a good chance they will end up running slower on an older device.
Some students may wonder why they bothered returning to campus. Others are struggling online. But lecturers who do engage students think deeply about how they do it, using all available tools.
We are in a world where so-called smart devices can expire after just a few years so you have to upgrade to the latest model.
Apple’s newest release comes without a wall charger and earpods. While the shift could reduce the company’s carbon footprint, users shifting to wireless charging will use more energy.
Instead of holograms replacing teachers, we’re seeing teachers using holograms to enhance the learning experience, particularly in disciplines such as health sciences and medicine.
Educators and technologists must work together to design better education apps – particularly those used without a teacher present.
As we all become mini publishers, we are losing the interactivity that fosters meaningful and healthy social interaction.
A law suit against Apple on antitrust grounds could force the company to open up its App Store. That could mean more exciting apps for consumers, but it could also make the system less secure.
Facebook enters the world of gaming – where the web addresses are short, the streams are long and the cash flows.
With these changes, it feels like Apple is finally acknowledging the new type of digital native they’ve created, and considering how to help them live a balanced life.
New gaming headsets promise to seamlessly integrate the digital and the physical world, but they also typically limit the vision of those digital objects to the person wearing the headset.
Once you have the ability to speak to a digital assistant from any room in the house, the obvious next step is to make the house able to listen.
Apple’s iPhone X is here, which means its push into augmented reality begins in earnest.
Do we really need to focus on things like spelling or memorising dates if technology can do that for us? Perhaps education should focus on other things instead.
If you’re creating an app for an iPad, then why not create it on an iPad too. Is Apple’s Swift move to do this just another step towards the end of the personal computer?
The human psyche loves a challenge as well as a pat on the back for achievement. Pervasive computing taps into these drives to ‘gamify’ aspects of life that are typically not games or even much fun.
What is it about modern digital technology that inspires suspicion rather than trust?
The movie got some predictions right on what Doc and Marty would find when the arrive in the “future” today. But what could they find if they took another 30 year leap into the future?
Apps have been with us for less than 10 years, but have changed the way we use our phones.
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