{"id":4927,"date":"2012-05-06T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2012-05-06T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T04:58:10","slug":"aware-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/2012\/05\/06\/aware-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Aware Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As brilliant as most software and apps might seem, they are still severely awareness-disabled, meaning they don&#8217;t know and can&#8217;t respond to simple user contexts such as who I am, where I am, what grade I&#8217;m in, what class this is, what level I&#8217;ve achieved, what my learning style is, etc. \u00a0The \u00a0objective of <strong>Aware Software<\/strong> is that \u00a0discrete levels of context awareness allows it to be &#8216;adaptive&#8217;, thereby responding constructively to arising learning situations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunity Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>While Artificial Intelligence (AI) remains futuristic, <strong>Aware Software<\/strong>\u00a0requires far more basic response capabilities that are possible now. \u00a0For example, context-awareness is critical for emerging mobile apps. \u00a0The venture opportunity is for application developers and instructional designers to develop accountability-driven pedagogical models focused on the learning experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction Source(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=1826214\"><strong>Gartner &#8211; Contextual User Experience<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2012\/01\/12-education-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2012\/\"><strong>KQED &#8211; Adaptive Software<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As brilliant as most software and apps might seem, they are still severely awareness-disabled, meaning they don&#8217;t know and can&#8217;t respond to simple user contexts such as who I am, where I am, what grade I&#8217;m in, what class this is, what level I&#8217;ve achieved, what my learning style is, etc. \u00a0The \u00a0objective of Aware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325967],"tags":[493581,328769],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-markets-poll","tag-aware-software","tag-emerging-markets-poll-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}