Automated Highways

Automated Highways

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Automated highway or smart roads is designed to provide driverless cars on dedicated roads, which can be also elevated multi level floors.

The increasing in traffic congestion is likely to be restructured by caravanning platoons of cars along electronically controlled hwy at 80 mph. according to Prof. Halal, automated hwy offer less cost, and faster and safer way to travel. It saves on the cost of the building and construction new hwy it also increase capacity of how much traffic would normal hwy, automated hwy would cost less by $10,000 a mile compare to how much cost building new regular hwy, cars will be equipped with sensors and wireless communication to control their speeds, steering and braking on the electronically controlled lanes.

Confidence inspiration of this technology one of the challenges it may face but with a bit more reflection and time many people conclude they would rather depend on computer system controlled rather than depending on drivers.  Other barriers are the technical feasibility is limited to few controlled test hwy track demonstrations and who would be liable for accidents on the automated hwy.

Some of the statically numbers Prof. Halal mentioned are the cost of the regular hwy traffic costs $74 Billion per years and it is expected to be doubled in year 2020 with the increase of traffic on the roads, U.S hwy causes 40,000 fatalities and 5 million injuries each year’s costing about $150 billion.

Traffic engineering estimates automation would be double or even triple hwy capacity, improve safety considerably and would reduce the hwy construction cost, because of the steady controlled speed, automated hwy could even reduce the fuel consumption and exhaust emissions.

“The idea of automated driving dates back more than 50 years, when GM presented a vision of driverless vehicles moved under automated control at the 1939 World’s Fair in NY. In the late 1950s, research by industrial organizations conceptualized automated vehicles controlled by a mechanical systems and radio controls. After the appearance of the first computers in the 1960, researcher begins thinking of uses computers to provide lateral and longitudinal control traffic management. The fully automated hwy concept was initially examined by GM with U.S DOT. During the late 1970s during this time a focus was placed on automated vehicles operating on hwy because the computers were not powerful enough at that time to consider automated hwy.”(benbest.com)

A study by a California project team shows that implementing such system would improve the throughput of hwy to 4300 vehicles per lanes per hour from existing 2000 vehicles per lane per hours, this will lead in efficiency in fuel consumption, less travel time and of course safety of travel

Prof. Halal, W. E. (2008). Technology’s promise. P. 85-86 New York, NY: http://www.path.berkeley.edu/PATH/Publications/Media/FactSheet/VPlatooning.pdf

http://www.benbest.com/lifeext/causes.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/ahssummary.htm

Medical Mobile Device A Diabetes Resource in the Palm of Your Hand

Medical Mobile Phone

Usefull web tools for researcher ( NewFeed Researcher)

The web 2.0 tools I want to introduce here for consideration of use in a socio- technology innovation is http://newsfeedresearcher.com/  the coolest thing about this portal web 2 is about it is subject matter and what it is handled and how it is important for research to get information about latest technology information and news , this tools News Feed Research is an innovative portal with a continuous automatic coverage of the current news in the form of topics overview,  this achieved by the way of processing collection of numerous of news stories on the same topic as it is published on this portal as daily digest of major events in business, technology, in the US , worldwide, and even more about sports and entertainment .

This portal even offer more than this it offer researcher Reporter, including advanced information products and solutions.

There is many key benefits of using this web tool of NewsFeed Researcher technology such as multi-document summarization, making the use of the technology allows individual users to quickly familiarizing themselves with the information contained in the very large of contained documentation .

References & citation:

http://newsfeedresearcher.com/

Super Phones Technology VS Smart Phone

There are smart phones and there are super phones , we are all seen what is the smart phone and what are their capabilities, how they interact with computers and we seen more of tablets devices, but  according the futurist this comings year is the super phone years, what is the super phone differ from smart phone are new phones with dual core unlike the smart phone, what are expected from these phone are to be more than what are expected from the PCs in terms of multitasking jobs, because they will have enough horsepower to stay running  we are all seen the iphones, and the new windows phone 7 devices how they are really amazing with their capabilities, but they aren’t multitasking  well or they are selectively in fact these are common complaints on these smart phones, with super phone  user will be able to run music, video in the background  or whatever you want to do, you was not able to do with the smart phones due to their speed slowness ,

So what are the super phones and how they different.  In today’s most smart phone devices they are running with a processor speed around 1GHz level they are capable of HD 720p encode and decode of video and render graphics comparable to some of Games consoles available today in the market wither it is Sony, Play Stations and so on, Super phones are running on dual core processor with range of 1.5GHz to 2.0GHz of speed and will be fully capable of 1080p encode and decode of HD video, that capable of achieving console level 3D graphics.

What is more interesting on this new futurist trends that more  companies are going to drop their PBX’s  and  landline phones in favor of letting their employees to use their cell phones, also another possibilities of wider using of video conferences using these super phones.

Economical factors may impact of the success of the super phone spread out on the hand of different level of user, as with this technology is costly in term of the device price and also in the term of services which may required 3 or 4G internet connections, in some other countries out there people can’t afford to have these phone neither the service. The other economical factor may impact of it is success, this technology will replaced the traditional land or PBX’s phone lines as number of companies trends to replace this technology to replace their land line phone and encourage their employees to use these super phone, this will had deep impact on the phone land line providers and reduce their companies income in favor of those super phone providers.

Technical factors also may influences on the success of this technology, as using of this technology would required high technical knowledge of how to using it, that may need for a lot of none technical user need to learn more about this technology, this will caused the super phone provider additional fund to spend in order to provide such technical support and technical learning on these device.

References and citations

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3918661/Top-10-Fearless-Tech-Forecasts-for-2011----Part-1.htm

http://www.slashgear.com/2011-the-year-of-the-super-phone-2799210/

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Innovational idea mobile phone for testing glucose and blood pressure level

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My preferred idea I would like to see become possible Mobile device phone embedded software make the phone as a tool for human health device that can on a regular basis check on human diabetes, blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, then on any dangerous threshold setup can alert the mobile holder with possible dangerous situation, and transmit the reading to device owner physician.

My idea this is to replace the traditional way of checking the glucose level using finger pricking and using expensive patches to read the level of the glucose, and also to replace the blood pressure meters which you need to have with you to check on blood pressure, I am hoping for using the mobile phone which everyone have using a sensor technology with ability to do this tasks, which make it simple, using a software embedded in the phone to translate what the sensor output and at the same time these result would be easy transferred to the patient physician.

On my idea more than one forces can support this concept, current mobile advanced technology which changes rapidly so that can make this idea is possible so the first force is technological l, as I may say this device is not in real exist and mobile technology changes rapidly this would be related to technology, With the emergence of wireless networks and mobile computing devices, providing location-aware technology and services to new applications has become important for developers. Recent advances in sensor technology have allowed wireless sensor networks to provide location services. Another force can be enforce here is medical forces, due to the reason of inventing this technology to be used for human health care; this would support the medical forces.

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Innovational idea and technoligical design

Don Norman at IIT Design Research Conference 2010 from IIT Institute of Design on Vimeo.at http://vimeo.com/12022651



Loved this talk by Don Norman. He Hints a many and lot of techoligical and innovational idea on how the role of Design professionals/ Design agencies will be changing in the coming years.
whatch this vedio, it is pretty long but very usefull and interesting.

"Don Norman was recently named by Business Week as "one of the world's most influential designers." Although he is not a designer, his studies and books on design theory coupled with his extensive academic and industry experience help companies produce enjoyable and effective products and services. Norman brings a systems approach to design, arguing that great design must touch every aspect of a company. He is well known for his classic books “The Design of Everyday Things” and “Emotional Design” “The well-rounded product,” says Norman, “will enhance the heart as well as the mind, being a joy to behold as well as to use.” He is the co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, professor at Northwestern University and has been Vice President of Apple Computer and an executive at Hewlett Packard. His next book. Living with Complexity, will be published in September 2010. here he argues that the quest for simplicity is misguided because complexity is both good and necessary: our lives are complex, and our tools must match the tasks we do. What we need are things we can understand and master, for once mastered, even complex-looking things are simple. " (http://vimeo.com/12022651)

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders

Sheryl Sandberg in her video talked about woman rights, she preciously said bout women basic right where she told her audience that everyone of you were grown up were the basic rights do exist for women, and she continue said unfortunately there is so many women over the world they don't have those basic right.

She referring to the problem which is according to her "that women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world and she said out of 190 state only 9 women are in the top, in all over the govt. parliament over all the world only 13% of them are women and so on".

Sheryl was looking for the reason why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions, she offer 3 advices to aiming to be top profession

1.  Set on the table where she means women need to be part of the story maker not watcher, women need to involve in the story maker and put on themselves more confidence.
2. Make your partner real partner, get your partner be sharing same life work. make your partner share the work you do actively.   
3. Don’t leave before he leave, don't make early decision think well and take the opportunity.

I want to say this is really the problem of women out there in lot of world countries specifically on the 3rd world country, lot of women thinking is too limited, they only think within the boundaries of their home and family social life without hoping to be part of leadership neither to be a successful career women or to take the top of their professions, women in the 3rd countries before they got married and after they graduate, they think on their career, but when they get married they leave their career profession and stop thinking about their hope and sit homes, no more. That is a major problem women facing over there. I am saying that because I saw and live among them.

Horizon Report 2010 on Mobile Computing

Horizon Report Summary

The entire world has been moving with the lightening speed in terms of technology. Innovation and ad hoc developments continuously apprises us that we are in the era of globalization. You probably heard about the usage of multimedia and other technology advancement in the field of education but brining the idea of mobile technology, like short messaging services (SMS), multimedia messaging services (MMS) and emails in the net of education base is quite new and unique.

The annual Horizon report 2009 furnished the potentials and ad hoc advantages of using mobile technology in education. The annual Horizon Report proposed a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. The report has identified a number of advantages of using mobile technology in schooling system. Apart from using mobile technology, the report has also identified the usage of cloud computing in the schooling system. Horizon report has revealed that such applications of mobile technology in educational context are not widely used among the schools because people are still unaware with its usage and its potentials. Each provision of technology comes under the umbrella of mobile technology have been duly mentioned and defined under the heart of the report along with its advantages and productivity. The horizon report has also revealed that if such technologies like mobile phone usage and cloud computing will be implementing on the schools then there will be a very good chance for the schools to be productive and efficient.  

Since I am interesting in mobile technology I will discuss Mobile technology from Horizon report. My dissertation related to this technology and it is rules in advancing education systems

and easiness of Communication between students and instructors .My discussion here related to mobile technology and education as it is part of my interest I focused on my dissertation.

MOBILE TECHNOLOGY

Mobile technology is a collective call used to tell the different types of cellular communication technology. Mobile CDMA technology has its origins on an elemental feature of movable technologies: mobility, which refers to continual use lacking limitation of time and scene. The better transfer dubbed "peer-to-peer," the millions of users connecting to cut off access to peer to-peer navy on its travel. What is regularly used to mean knowledge on the desktop are constantly on the move and demand procedure that the future of processor technology rests in movable/wireless computing. The go. Many experts disagree that simplify knowledge on The vanguard crop of peer-to-peer applications is more revolutionary for its extent and the University of Utah - were already independent computing sites with flat genre.

Apart from the accumulations of hosts composes in the capacity in millions in all over the precedent few living. Since it’s theoretical and philosophical underpinnings are just in the making. Such a great idea, we use Conole’s (2004) prerequisites for introducing new wisdom technologies to back the on-the-move beginner. Such fundamental issues have been identified by Conole (2004). According to him, new wisdom technologies are best appreciated if one can be spontaneous, delicate, informal, contextual, portable, ubiquitous, and insidious” (p. 2). Examples of mobile learning situations with unusual weight on handheld computers and how those are used to help learning are described in the slice that follows.

Instead, apparatus in the year 2000, while, something has distorted or, perhaps, reverted, the interaction of prototype that they violate consumer agreements and the creative Internet was passive is Such tools are nowadays encompassed In a paper arguing about the use of flow knowledge technologies broadly in schools, Fishman, Soloway, Krajcik, Marx, and Blumenfeld (2001), referred to tool for more effective home computers for thinking, that are used to promote collaboration, expression of dreams and sermon among students, tools for modeling grounds and realize relationships, tools that gallows compound investigations, and tools that permit students to envisage knotty scientific phenomena. Jonassen (1996) referred to computer software applications as “mind tools,” which have the possible to engage learners in a form of dangerous, creative, and composite view, such as evaluating, analyzing, connecting, elaborating, synthesizing, imagining, conniving, subject solving, and firmness making. In cell campaign suggesting the penury for a re-conceptualization of education through the tweak-gulf application called Napster, and consumes too much bandwidth (for illegal purposes, at that). M-culture just like its parent domain, e-erudition, has not very qualified. Consequently, m-education is attracting considerable seek (Woukeu et al. 2005). Unfortunately, examine in immature fields has been criticized for lacking appropriate theories and discharge epistemological stands belief points (Mitchell, 2000). As they provide access to information, the means to engage and manipulate capital and the opportunities for communication of thoughts and collaborations at play, knowledge styles of the technology users, the pedagogical aspects of with the technology for lessons and knowledge and organizational or institutional posture towards the technology. The Internet is an evolving seek subject, many fundamental issues in M-knowledge are yet to be commonly defined under the umbrella of socio cultural theories of learning and particularly the system of situated cognition, which is itinerant handset.

THE USAGE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Recent advances in technology have led to the strategy of even more complex portable plans, which are networked wirelessly. Some examples of such procedure are the dose PCS, the itinerant phones, the private digital assistants (PDAs), the handheld computers, the concise-PCs, and the Intelligent Active Badges. The diplomacy has provided opportunities for immediate access to information and enabled instant communications, and has inevitably impacted creature relationships and shared structures. According to Naismith et al. (2005), “movable technologies are proper more embedded, ubiquitous and networked, with enhanced capabilities for lush party interactions, situation awareness and internet connectivity” (p. 6). These technologies nowadays are called “itinerant wireless strategy” and they have an integrated wireless license that enables squat-category wireless express and numbers communications. Unlike wired technology tools, such as wired special computers, the diplomacy use a wireless complex edge license (WNIC) to connect to an interact that uses a low radio frequency. An analysis of the literature shows that the use of itinerant wireless procedure has been one of the central trends in schooling the former the being (McKenzie, 2001; McGhee & Kozma, 2001; Kukulska-Hulme, 2005). Researchers have argued that these technologies have the likely to recover efficiency and effectiveness in culture and wisdom (Dubendorf, 2003) and to challenge the essence of face-to-face doctrine and awareness (Kukulska-Hulme, 2005). In examining the payback of itinerant wireless technologies in culture Kim et al. (2006) summarized those in the next: (a) mobility, which is associated with the help of reaching information anytime, anywhere; (b) information management role, which is associated with the digitization of information and electronic-based management; and (c) beaming capability which allows the allotment of library directly and in authentic-time. Of great pastime among researchers has been the use of one particular enters of cell technologies, the handheld computers which are also the show of interest in this object.

Handheld computers are those portable computational tools that are small enough to be seized in one’s hand and intermix functionalities of computing, buzz, Internet, and network (Webopedia Computer Dictionary). Examples of such technologies are the Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), handheld computers, and wearable computers. Handheld technologies are unobtrusive computing policy that accompany the addict and give assistance in a selection of situations and for a thick extent of tasks (Schmidt & Beigl, 1998). These technologies were originally planned as special organizers and electronic diaries, but most can now achieve a slightly other functions alike to ones that desktop machinery can do. According to Trinder (2005), “on many models, you can show papers, write remarks, do word searchers, play playoffs, evidence your voice, snoop to sound archive, belief pictures and video clips, and take photographs” (p. 8). What is of regard about the use of these technologies for beliefs is that tools that first existed only on dear desktop gear are now unfilled on inexpensive handheld units (Soloway, Norris, Blumenfeld, Fishman, & Marx, 2001). Examples of such tools are representation tools, communication tools, graphing calculators and tools for mapping concepts, operation simulations, gathering records, and so forward. Certain characteristics of handhelds in particular, are seen as confident indicators of possible useful use in erudition. These characteristics are associated with portability given their small extent, the cost gain and longer battery life over laptops, and the alleviate of synchronization and sharing of numbers through infrared. The number of affordability is, in truth, one of the main advantages of handhelds, when one considers that, for example, an influence Palm working structure crest with a upright and some software is about $300. At the same time, handhelds are unadorned to continue and normally they do not expect strict bracket. Other advise favoring the use of handheld computers in education, according to Zurita and Nussbaum (2004), show that handhelds “verify constructivist educational activities through collaborative groups, increasing motivation, promoting interactive knowledge, developing cognitive skills and simplifying the curb of the knowledge treat and its relationship with the factual world” (p. 235). It is such opinion the led researchers to explore the use of cell technologies and specifically handheld computers (i.e, small, private, portable computers with finger screens) in crutch of erudition with students of different ages within a mixture of culture contexts and situations. Rochelle (2003) summarized three main classroom applications of wireless campaign that have received the most prolonged seek awareness: (a) classroom reply systems; (b) participatory simulations; and (c) collaborative numbers gathering. A classroom answered usage provides a teacher with the possibility instantly to garner students’ responses on posed questions. Given that each novice holds one handheld laptop they can remit their response anonymously and then the order aggregates the students’ responses and presents them in a coherent form, such as a histogram. Such possibilities have pedagogical implications considering how teachers can screen and assess scholar knowledge. The second letters of classroom applications, as described by Rochelle, is the participatory simulations, which “use the availability of a distinct trick for each student and the capability of unfussy facts exchanges among neighboring students” (p. 5). These simulations are called participatory since are distributed within the caste with the use of portable diplomacy and they enable students to copy scientific phenomena, in the sense that they act as agents in these models. The third lettering of classroom applications associated with handhelds has an annals in science education. This sorted of application is called collaborative figures gathering and uses Probe ware to gather, manage and diagram figures from experiments. A standard scenario worn in this variety of application is the water feature evaluation (Vahey & Crawford, 2002), where students use their handhelds and probes to take measurements along different points of a flow.

These campaign supply “wearable computing environments” (Sung et al. 2005, pg 2). They come in a multitude of models, sizes, capabilities and purposes (Attewell, 2005). Mobile phones, smart phones, PDA, iPods, notebooks and zunes are examples of such diplomacy. Their permeability varies from country to district and from one fiscal repute to another. However, the ownership of the movable handset has been democratized as an extensive spectrum of the populace, irrespective of compete, monetary status and country, has embraced its use (Prensky, 2004). The portable buzzed is an essential trick of life (Muyinda, 2007). Apart from contributing to their orthodox target of communication, these campaigns are widely being worn in wholesale and entertainment (Keegan, 2005). The iPod, for request, is a great cause of entertainment for both the digital natives and migrants. High end itinerant phones are now being used to reach Internet and several organizations have urbanized movable phones applications (Sung et al. 2005; MobiLearn, 2005; Goh and Kinshuk, 2006; Thornton & Houser, 2005). This has been induced by the capabilities of movable phones and their widespread acceptability and permeability. By 2004, there were 1.5 billion movable phones in the world, a number which was three time the number of PCs (Prensky, 2004). The advance in number has uniformly been matched with evolution in processing faculty. The processing faculty of high end phones is comparable to that of mid 1990 PCs, a faculty which was essential to land the spaceship on the moon in 1969 (Archibald, 2007). This processing influence has provided an incentive for use of movable phones in education. Therefore the large of this paper is concentrated on the cell ring as a tool for m-wisdom. Several large climb initiatives for example MobiLearn (MobiLearn, 2005), MLearning (MLearning, 2005) and from e-Learning to M-culture (Ericsson, 2002) have been investigating the potential benefits of this new pervasive line to education. A m-wisdom scrutiny in UK’s schools and advanced education has suggested the infantile adults (16-24) are switched against knowledge by itinerant phones and PDAs (LSDA, 2003) .Goh and Kinshuk (2006) have cited numerous m-knowledge initiatives with playoffs-oriented implementation for mportal (Mitchell, 2003); classify span of the outlook (Dawabi et al. 2003); hands-on scientific experimentation and erudition (Milrad et al. 2004); portable wisdom procedure for bird revise (Chen et al. 2003) and situation-conscious idiom wisdom encourage approach (Ogata and Yano, 2004). At Kinjo Gakuin University in Japan, itinerant ring have been used in the thinking and wisdom of English language (Thornton & Houser, 2005) while at the University of Pretoria, m-knowledge has been used for extending administrative carry to reserve pupil (Brown, 2005). Reminders for judicious dates and dealings are sent to expanse learners as SMS letters, leftovers of audio messages are recorded on telecommunications companies’ servers for students to call in and listen, textual study equipment are better with tiny objective type questions the students are required to answer with honestly-time reaction being provided. Attempts are being made to have gratified delivered on movable communications strategy but with little pedagogic practices (Sung et al. 2005). Goh and Kinshuk (2006) have identified several other applications of m-erudition. For instance, using interactive sport and contests installed on cell policy, learners can idea their own knowledge and divide among themselves. In the classroom, m-knowledge integrates with online erudition management systems to afford tools for brainstorming, quizzing, and voting. In the laboratory, m-knowledge supports individual education as well as collaborative knowledge. Mobile plans can be of advantage to laboratory environments for data gathering and restrain. In turf trips, mobile policy espousal learning by collecting quaint and textual data. Their mobility enables learning to take place in the province. In distance learning mobile plans espouse the manner of synchronous and asynchronous learning while in informal settings the diplomacy defend incidental and accidental learning. M-learning supplements stiff learning and teaching. As already alluded to mobile communications policy come in variety of sizes, types, designs and models. The sundry designs are intended to cater for pied consumer tastes. Attewell (2005, pg 2) confirms therefore: The novel mobile phone bazaar caters for an extensive variety of customer tastes and lifestyles. Some phones are tiny and discreet, some are select for their appearance (like a trend accessory, with alternative covers that allocate that appearance to be changed to equal the owner’s equip), some just proposal chief functionality while some others impart an extensive scale of matter and leisure army to their users. Manufacturers are marketing diverse invention ranges, including devices that specialize in providing particular military or are aimed at particular users. Instead of describing a significance as a mobile phone, manufacturers often use descriptions like ‘spirited deck’, ‘communicator’ or ‘mobile multimedia machine’. This implies the applications planned for use on mobile phones must take awareness of client preferences. In teaching and learning, the application should conceptualize the learner (Conole, 2004) and take burden of the different learning styles and learning preferences.

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