Week 5 Learning Journal Post

Part One: Support and Comment on Teammates' Goals

1st Comment and 2nd Comment

Part Two: Possible Capstone Ideas

My first idea for a potential capstone project is a virtual reality (VR) application that would act as a platform for retailers to create an immersive shopping experience for VR equipment users to interact with true-to-scale 3D models of their products. This would be an ideal solution for those with social anxiety, as they can experience a close to realistic shopping experience without others around. Additionally, this would provide customers with another option to see a product up close rather than going to a retail store to find its not on display. Lastly, it will create another source of revenue for companies, especially as VR becomes more popular and prominent.

My second idea is a file tracking software that acts as a hub for a user's various cloud storages and physical drives. The software would indicate what files on your computer have yet to be backup or saved, highlighting files that seem to be important based on how often they are used or how heavily they have grown in size. The software will also record what files have been removed from the computer and saved elsewhere so users know where they can retrieve them. This can also be applicable to mobile devices as well, where all the collected information can be logged in a cloud database. 

My third idea is a bit more ambitious than the rest, but it would be a digital media license manager. A current issue exists where consumers are realizing they don't own all their digital media. My solution is a universal license service so consumers can have access to purchased digital media on any platform regardless of whatever platform they chose to purchase it from. The license manager would allow users to add licenses to their accounts and merge those accounts with accounts from media platforms for gaming, movies and tv, music, and software. 

Part Three: What I've Learned This Week

This week I learned about interviewing an industry professional and the ways I can do it better in the future. We also took the time to practice and learn to apply conflict resolution strategies to different scenarios. I feel like I got most of these wrong, but it also tracks with my past experiences in conflict resolution being mostly unsuccessful. In terms of our ethical argument essays, I learned how to properly prompt AI to produce suitable content and how to evaluate the content that is produced by the AI. Additionally, I learned how to define and identify stakeholders, how to categorize the claims they make, and how to prompt and evaluate AI responses to create a quality stakeholder's analysis. Lastly, I learned a variety of benefits and expectations that come with internships and graduate programs. I definitely would love to take on an internship, perhaps in either the cybersecurity field, VR development, or game development. Not sure if I would want to do graduate school just yet, although I have considered teaching computer science in the future but specifically for high school and colleges don't necessarily require a master's or Ph.D. to teach there. 

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