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Week 2 - Creating a New Social Media Platform

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              ConnectAbility is a brand-new social media platform that was specifically designed for handicapped, physically, and mentally impaired people. This social media platform is intended to unite everyone with ID (intellectual disability).                         According to Leach (2020), social media is used by 5.07 billion people worldwide, or 62.6 percent of the total population. There are an estimated 590 million handicapped users on social media if we take into account that 20% of the population has a disability (Petrosyan, 2024; Leach, 2020, paras.12 & 13). The proximity of the difference of users of social media might increase gradually, hence potentially fostering a greater digital divide if this scenario continues to occur. This social media platform is designed to connect the intellectually...

W1_Reimagining Daily Objects

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  Reimagining daily objects sounds like a compilation of daily struggles and grumpy grumbles from everyone towards a particular item, amending it, and executing it into reality. Recently, I just discovered that one single electronic device is adequate to substitute the presence of paper, pens, pencils, and even limited memory spaces in humans’ brains by recording every important information on their respective devices. Still, the same scenario does not happen on the stylus pen that is attached to the electronic devices. Several amendments can be implemented to enhance the feasibility and the performance of the stylus pen to eliminate the necessity of bringing an extra pencil case to school. First, a rough sketch of the design of the stylus pen is displayed in Figure 1.0 . With the exchange of materials such as thermochromic plastic. Thermochromic materials can alter their reflectance to absorb solar energy in warm weather and reflect it in the cold seasons. When the temperature d...