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Thanks AR group for your hard work on this, it was a fun and instructive experience to go through your \u2018Just another UBC blog site\u2019 for this assignment.<\/p>\n
I will focus on Question 1) & 4).<\/p>\n
AR definitely has potential.\u00a0 Specifically, I think once the bugs are worked out, it could provide great potential as a teaching tool for \u201cIncreased Comprehension of Abstract Concepts\u201d, say for subjects such as Linear Algebra, which has many abstract concepts that my teachers who were only equipped with chalk and blackboard, had difficulty explaining well.<\/p>\n
However, I think it might still be some time until AR can figure out its own kinks and challenges, to prove it a universally useful technology.<\/p>\n
Until then, let me outline what I think are AR\u2019s Key functional Advantages over other technologies, and 2 of its major obstacles moving ahead:<\/p>\n
Advantages:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n In a perfect world, it seems AR can:<\/p>\n 1) As an Engagement Layer: Supplant, or more likely compliment traditional text-based learning, by providing supporting (interactive) images, which will likely enhance learning for most none read-write dominant learners. Ex. Aura.<\/p>\n 2) An an Information Layer:\u00a0 Provide many of us additional layers of information related to the things, people, or places we are interested in. Ex. Tagging.<\/p>\n Obstacles: 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Privacy concerns: <\/strong>\u00a0looking through my friend\u2019s Google Now application on Android, this program studies users\u2019 past behavior (including, flights, movies, appointments, places, transit, weather, dictionary definitions, and other searches) to provide them intelligent information in the form of \u2018cards\u2019 \u2013 this could be expanded to interactive images in years to come.<\/p>\n If wondering if he should use it, we were both triggered by how much of our privacy we would be compromising by using such an app? If that is the case, why would I want Google or another private company, with whom I have even less of a protected relationship than my work, enabled to see and do with my personal\/medical\/financial\/calendar\/search related information as it pleases?\u00a0 The potential for abuse is nothing short of stupendous and must be taken very seriously.<\/p>\n
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\nRecognizing this concern at the workplace for instance, the Supreme court of Canada just extended constitutional rights to protect workers privacy rights, ruling employers DO NOT have rights to the contents of their employees search and hard-drive; (http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/supreme-court-rules-on-whether-material-on-work-computers-is-private\/article4623205\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n