• Telemedicine: service delivery to isolated and remote areas
• Electronic health records: privacy, data analysis, public health
• Diagnostic and therapeutic tools: robotic surgery, prosthetic devices, diagnostic
software, drug development and marketing
• Medical advice on the Internet or a CD-ROM
• Monitoring patients
• IT solutions for disabled people
Privacy - an issue related to the collection and storage of personal information.
Telemedicine
Students must study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of
databases and spreadsheets. These may include:
• privacy of information in different cultures
• rights of individuals with respect to the storage of personal data
• social consequences of outdated or incorrect data stored in databases
• social consequences of the release of sensitive data stored in databases
• legislation on access and use of database information in different countries
• responsibility for the security of data stored in databases from different perspectives,
for example, the developer, the user and the management of an organization
• accountability for the negative social effects caused by insecure databases
• ethical issues related to the collection and use of personal data
• ethical issues related to the selling of data stored in databases.
Knowledge of technology
In order to study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of databases, the student must have an understanding of related technological concepts.
These may include the following.
Design and creation concepts
• Key terms—field, key field, record, search, query, sort, database management system,
mail merge
• Flat-file database versus relational database
• Paper files versus electronic files
• Data redundancy and data integrity
• Updating data
Storage and access concepts
• Data transfer between a database and a spreadsheet
• Search and the use of the Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT)
• Data mining/data matching
Presentation concepts
• Report generation
• Special-purpose databases, for example, personal information managers,
encyclopedias, library systems
Databases and their link to medical records. For more..
For Key terminology - click here
2.4 Integrated systems
2.4.1 Robotics
Social and ethical issues
Students must study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of
robotics. These may include:
• social and economic effects of replacing people with robots in the workplace
• ethical decisions regarding the use of robots in situations that might endanger
human beings
• social impact of human interaction with robots, for example, artificial pets, robots
for the disabled and elderly
• social impact and ethical considerations regarding the use of robotics in medicine,
for example, robotic surgery, computer-controlled prostheses
• reliability of robotic devices, particularly in life-threatening situations.
In order to study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of robotics,
the student must have an understanding of related technological concepts. These may include:
• key terms—robot, android, cyborg, sensors
• determining situations in which it is more appropriate to use a robot than a human being
• types of input/output peripherals used in various situations, for example, arms, fingers,
voice, wheels
• reasons why robots are/are not designed as androids with human-like form
• the capabilities and limitations of robots with respect to vision, touch, sound and
movement
• processing power in relation to the capabilities and limitations of robots.
2.4.2 Artificial intelligence and expert systems
Social and ethical issues
Students must study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of
artificial intelligence (AI) and expert systems. These may include:
• responsibility for the performance of an expert system—knowledge engineer,
informant, programmer, company that sold it, the buyer/consumer
• value of the development of AI as a field, for example, whether it is an appropriate
place to put economic resources
• ethical issues of various applications of AI, for example, replacement of human
workers, handing decision-making tasks to a computer
• social impact of the use of “smart” machines on everyday life
• ethical issues related to military applications of AI, for example, smart weapons,
reconnaissance, decision making
• implications of creative production by computers using AI, for example, Aaron, an
expert system, creates visual art
• access to the knowledge base underlying an inference engine in an expert system,
for example, whether people affected by decisions made using an expert system
should have access to the rules by which the decision was made.
In order to study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of AI and
expert systems, the student must have an understanding of related technological concepts.
These may include:
• key terms—AI, Turing test, parallel processing, machine learning, natural language,
common-sense knowledge, agent, pattern recognition, expert system, knowledge
base, inference engine, heuristics, fuzzy logic, knowledge engineer, domain
• storage requirements for common-sense knowledge
• processing requirements for AI
• collection/creation of a knowledge base
• creation of an inference engine (for example, if/then rules, fuzzy logic)
• identifying domains that are suitable for expert systems.
Year 12 Term 3
3.3 Health
• Telemedicine: service delivery to isolated and remote areas• Electronic health records: privacy, data analysis, public health
• Diagnostic and therapeutic tools: robotic surgery, prosthetic devices, diagnostic
software, drug development and marketing
• Medical advice on the Internet or a CD-ROM
• Monitoring patients
• IT solutions for disabled people
Privacy - an issue related to the collection and storage of personal information.
Telemedicine
IT Developments in Health - some examples
Expert Systems and Health Care
Personal Devices and healthcare
Robotic Surgery
2.2.2 Databases
Social and ethical issues
Students must study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use ofdatabases and spreadsheets. These may include:
• privacy of information in different cultures
• rights of individuals with respect to the storage of personal data
• social consequences of outdated or incorrect data stored in databases
• social consequences of the release of sensitive data stored in databases
• legislation on access and use of database information in different countries
• responsibility for the security of data stored in databases from different perspectives,
for example, the developer, the user and the management of an organization
• accountability for the negative social effects caused by insecure databases
• ethical issues related to the collection and use of personal data
• ethical issues related to the selling of data stored in databases.
Knowledge of technology
In order to study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use ofdatabases, the student must have an understanding of related technological concepts.
These may include the following.
Design and creation concepts
• Key terms—field, key field, record, search, query, sort, database management system,
mail merge
• Flat-file database versus relational database
• Paper files versus electronic files
• Data redundancy and data integrity
• Updating data
Storage and access concepts
• Data transfer between a database and a spreadsheet
• Search and the use of the Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT)
• Data mining/data matching
Presentation concepts
• Report generation
• Special-purpose databases, for example, personal information managers,
encyclopedias, library systems
Databases and their link to medical records. For more..
For Key terminology - click here
2.4 Integrated systems
2.4.1 Robotics
Social and ethical issues
Students must study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use ofrobotics. These may include:
• social and economic effects of replacing people with robots in the workplace
• ethical decisions regarding the use of robots in situations that might endanger
human beings
• social impact of human interaction with robots, for example, artificial pets, robots
for the disabled and elderly
• social impact and ethical considerations regarding the use of robotics in medicine,
for example, robotic surgery, computer-controlled prostheses
• reliability of robotic devices, particularly in life-threatening situations.
For more....
and a study of related news articles
Knowledge of technology
In order to study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of robotics,the student must have an understanding of related technological concepts. These may include:
• key terms—robot, android, cyborg, sensors
• determining situations in which it is more appropriate to use a robot than a human being
• types of input/output peripherals used in various situations, for example, arms, fingers,
voice, wheels
• reasons why robots are/are not designed as androids with human-like form
• the capabilities and limitations of robots with respect to vision, touch, sound and
movement
• processing power in relation to the capabilities and limitations of robots.
2.4.2 Artificial intelligence and expert systems
Social and ethical issues
Students must study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use ofartificial intelligence (AI) and expert systems. These may include:
• responsibility for the performance of an expert system—knowledge engineer,
informant, programmer, company that sold it, the buyer/consumer
• value of the development of AI as a field, for example, whether it is an appropriate
place to put economic resources
• ethical issues of various applications of AI, for example, replacement of human
workers, handing decision-making tasks to a computer
• social impact of the use of “smart” machines on everyday life
• ethical issues related to military applications of AI, for example, smart weapons,
reconnaissance, decision making
• implications of creative production by computers using AI, for example, Aaron, an
expert system, creates visual art
• access to the knowledge base underlying an inference engine in an expert system,
for example, whether people affected by decisions made using an expert system
should have access to the rules by which the decision was made.
For more....
Knowledge of technology
In order to study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of AI andexpert systems, the student must have an understanding of related technological concepts.
These may include:
• key terms—AI, Turing test, parallel processing, machine learning, natural language,
common-sense knowledge, agent, pattern recognition, expert system, knowledge
base, inference engine, heuristics, fuzzy logic, knowledge engineer, domain
• storage requirements for common-sense knowledge
• processing requirements for AI
• collection/creation of a knowledge base
• creation of an inference engine (for example, if/then rules, fuzzy logic)
• identifying domains that are suitable for expert systems.
Key Terminology
Virtual Reality and it's uses
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