Collaborative Learning Discussion 1 (Summary Post)

After reading the posts of my fellow students who chose the same use case as I did, we agree that Corazon covered several principles of the ACM Code of Ethics and the BSC. Below is the comparison table.

ACM Code of ethics	BSC Code of conduct	Action
2.5 Comprehensive Risk Analysis	Show what you know and learn what you don’t (professional responsability)	Welcomes independent security evaluation and acted responsibly and quickly
2.3 Respect existing rules	Respect the organisation or individual you work for	Worked applying standards
1.1 Contribute to society and to human well-being	You make IT for everyone	Made technology available to charities

One specific point I would disagree with Stella is that Corazon may be diminishing the severity of the device's vulnerabilities. The balance of risk and functionality is precise to each case, and in some cases, the acceptable risk level may differ. If the identified vulnerability can result in a reset of the hard-coded values, exploitation will reset the value and restart the monitoring; the effect does not represent a significant danger to the patient. This is not to say that improvements cannot be made, and the hard-coded value cannot be replaced with a dynamic one if this prevents the monitoring reset.

Another aspect mentioned is the differences between legal and ethical enforcement mechanisms. The ethics enforcement mechanisms remain a challenge in itself. The repetitive losses result in insufficient as a consequence of not complying with the ethics principles (Hagendorff, 2020). The consideration by Michael encounters a place here when he mentions the need for a constant evolution of the BCS and ACM Codes to perhaps be the basis for a larger framework that could cover all aspects of ethics.

References
Hagendorff, T. (2020) The Ethics of AI Ethics: An Evaluation of Guidelines. Minds & Machines 30, 99–120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-020-09517-8 

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Research Proposal Review

Which of the methods described in this week's reading would you think would suit your purpose?
Our research will use a qualitative method as we will be relying on other researchers opinions, collecting data, interviewing, observing, and recording. Our ideas will be the result of other's ideas. Also, we will have an inductive view on theory and research.

Which data collection methods would you consider using?
As this research will be based on secondary resources, we will use analysis and synthesis of existing data collected from articles, government and organisations reports, and books mainly.

Which required skills will you need to have or develop for the chosen project?
Analysis & Synthesis are the main skills required.

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Lecture cast notes: Interviews and Survey Design

Interviews: A common data collection research method. Conversational method. When it is face-to-face, it gives an opportunity to read the body language of the respondent. Allows asking for more questions to obtain in-depth information.

Survey design: Can be online, the information is available to the researcher in real time. Whichever The method used should have a balance between open and closed questions.

Pre and post-testing and analysis: Market research version of the before and after picture seen in weight-loss product commercials. Measuring things before (pre) and after (post) allows us to measure changes. Comparing the quality of specific site content can be a valuable case for applying pre and post-testing and analysis.

Analysis: When the data collected is quantitative, the analysis can be done to compare the performance of the old against the new version. For qualitative data, asking the right questions will be the measure of the quality of the analysis.