IS390 Spring 2022

What advantages does research offer to the decision-maker over seat-of-the-pants decision making? Doing the research would give a person a well-rounded view of any topic.   With research you should be able to see both what the advantages are as well as the disadvantages. Research provides prior experiences and accumulated knowledge based off of the experiments that were probably conducted. Making decisions after weighing the facts is the best practice to go with, especially in the realm of medicine. Otherwise you would be risking lives and would certainly result in a lawsuit. When my previous laptop died on me, I didn’t buy the first laptop that came up in my Google search. I perused several sites and compared not only the features but the prices as well.   After limiting my selection to a smaller number, I looked at the customer reviews as well to get a sense of the experiences that other people had with the laptops I was considering.   By doing my research I was a...

  What surprises have you encountered specific to your research question? Hands down, the most surprising fact I encountered was how slow it was communicating with AAC devices and specifically with BCIs.   Prior to this research, I would see Stephen Hawking on TV interviews, talk shows, and snippets of his “live” lectures.   What I didn’t realize that his “live” speeches were absolutely pre-meditated and scripted.   The questions were provided beforehand to give him ample time to compose an answer and have that ready to go when he pressed the button on his system.   This was probably the case even during “live” tapings, where the interviewer would ask a question and Hawking would have a response ready to go. With the magic of editing sometimes, it would appear as if Hawking and the interviewer were having a normal conversation in real time.   One article I read said that in the beginning, Hawking’s selection rate was 15 words per minute (Medeiros, 2015) ,...

  How many different sources provided corroborating evidence that supported the same facts? List the facts and sources. I found several articles, reviews, and editorials about brain-computer interfaces.   I ended up pulling information from two main articles Shih et al., and Brumberg et al., plus a YouTube video (Mike Chi, 2015) because all the facts were pretty much the same.   The differences were what areas of focus their article expounded upon.   Shih et al.’s article was aimed for an audience in the medical field, while Brumberg et al. was an introduction to BCI systems.   One difference was in how the different components of the BCI are labeled. Shih, Krusienski, and Wolpaw use the labels: signal acquisition, feature extraction, feature translation, and device output (Shih et al., 2012) .   The article from NeurotechEdu , broke down BCIs into more components:   signal acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction, classification, translatio...

MEMORANDUM   TO:   Amy Herman and Richard Becker From: Joyce Bloom RE:   IS390 Reading & Research DATE:   May 18, 2022               The purpose of this memorandum is to summarize my source information that pertain to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices.   Background               AAC devices are not a one-size fits all solution for the individuals that require the assistive technology to aid with communication.   Each device needs to fit the individual’s need and could be further customized according to the individual’s ability to operate the device with the mobility that he or she is capable of.   Study Methods, Limitations, Brief Summary of Literature Sources   Except for one personal interview, I used articles and journals from the OC library’s databases.   The realm...

 The paper and publication has been submitted.  I still have a presentation to give during the last class meeting. I also have my peer reviews to complete. I have submitted one publication review as well as one paper review.  I am waiting to complete the other publication until after I've seen the presentation, so that I have more context about the content.  I have one more paper peer review that should be completed by tomorrow.

 By June 3rd, I had completed a rough first draft of the paper, and turned it in that draft by June 4.  I also completed the publication at the same time to turn in also on June 4. I have also been working on the presentation part, and feel lucky that I was part of the last group to present.

By May 27 I had a rough outline created for my paper.  The sources have been since collected and waiting in the Zotero repository ready to use. I switched priorities during this week to work on another paper.