E Studio IV Spring: Designing Environments for Social Systems

Max Shim
2 min readJan 25, 2022

1/26/22

1. Molly Steenson Video Reflection

I found this very cool because I never knew that AI had history. I’ve always thought that AI was something very new in our world and it only emerged a few years ago. However, I soon realized that the concept of AI was existent but the technology to provide AI wasn’t ready in our world. According to Molly, she says that “AI is a matter of architecture, infrastructure, and design.” I think this is very compelling because I believe AI was able to be created and introduced to our environment today due to the combination of all these 3 areas.

2. Anatomy of AI

I feel pretty overwhelmed after reading this article. There are so many different technologies involved in AI systems. However, AI enhances our life to be more convenient, beneficial and it will definitely take more place in our lives in the near future.

Enchanted Objects

Enchanted Objects was a very cool reading. I especially enjoyed (Objects that learn). I find this very cool because I realized the importance of collecting data and how useful it can be. Mcdonalds using data to increase customer satisfaction, cameras using data to monitor things, Ikea app designing an empty space using the data of the user just seems unreal and fascinating.

3. Diagram of Potential Interaction in TCS

Research Question

How could CMU utilize data collected from IoT to make a better university or What kind of data collection is the most useful and what kind of predictions could CMU make out of this?

Related articles to research question

https://www.igor-tech.com/news-and-insights/articles/creating-smarter-schools-benefits-and-applications-of-iot-in-education

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