COMPUTING AND VULNERABLE GROUPS Flashcards
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Are physically, mentally, or
socially disadvantaged persons who may be unable to meet
their basic needs and may therefore require specific
assistance.
Vulnerable Groups
Who are the Vulnerable Person:
- Minor
- Pregnant Women
- Prisoners
- Persons who are illiterate or have limited formal education
- Women on some settings
According to _____, we would not want to live in a society unless it conforms to the difference principle which can be summarized as:
“Differences in socio-economic status should be allowed
if, and only if, they benefit the least advantaged.”
Rawls
is an attempt (usually in the form of a document or diagram) to systematically identify the ways that a technology might be vulnerable to a malicious attack.
Also usually includes a description of the vulnerabilities, or potential avenues of attack, that could allow the system to be exploited.
Threat Analysis
is having a huge impact on the ability of institutions to control people.
Computer Technology
PEOPLE WITH IMPAIRED, OR LEGALLY LIMITED, DECISION-MAKING ABILITIES:
- Children
- People with mental illnesses or disabilities
- Elderly
- People with limited legal autonomy
Allow the owner of a cellular phone account to keep track of the phone’s location, thereby keeping tract of the phone’s
Family Locator Service
Is anyone who has permission to see the locations of others using the family locator service.
Locator
Is anyone whose cellular phone is being tracked.
Locatee
Refers to the degree to which people with disabilities can use the technology.
Accessibility
Software that reads the screen audibly, for people with vision or reading impairments
Screen-Readers
Software that can tell which word you are trying to type based on the first few letters. This is good for people with motor control problems that make typing difficult.
Predictive Typing
Software that displays the text of any audible dialog, useful for hearing-impaired users.
Subtitles
Software that changes the colors of the screen to
make text easier to read by vision-impaired users.
High Contrast Displays
User interfaces that make cellphones vibrate. (Haptic means “touched-based”). Often used to help a vision-impaired user know when he has clicked a button and to help hearing-impaired users know when the phone is ringing.
Haptic Feedback
On a Web page, provides a text description of an image so that a screen-reader can describe the image to a vision-impaired user.
Text Alternatives for Images
are sometimes intentionally targeted by hate groups who use the anonymity of the Internet to hide their actions.
Minority Group
means taking a task that used to require human control and oversight, and removing or reducing the amount of oversight required.
Automation
