Attention Span and Tech Autonomy as Moral Goods and Societal Necessities

Autonomy, moral constraints, and markets in kidneys.

This article concerns the morality of establishing regulated kidney markets in an effort to reduce the chronic shortage of kidneys for transplant. The article tries to rebut the view, recently defended by James Taylor, that if we hold autonomy to be intrinsically valuable, then we should be in favor of such markets. The article then argues that, under current conditions, the buying and selling ...

Moral Autonomy, Civil Liberties, and Confucianism

Attention Span (sec) Figure 9. Response Time as a Function of Attention Span for Metricom Attention Span (sec) Figure 10. Response Time as a Function of Attention Span for the Wavelan Nis

An important issue to be addressed for the next generation of wirelessly-connected hand-held devices is battery longevity. In this paper we examine this issue from the point of view of the Network Interface (NI). In particular, we measure the power usage of two PDAs, the Apple Newton Messagepad and Sony Magic Link, and four NIs, the Metricom Ricochet Wireless Modem, the AT&T Wavelan operating a...

Attention Span For Personalisation

A click on an item is arguably the most widely used feature in recommender systems. However, a click is one out of 174 events a browser can trigger. This paper presents a framework to effectively collect and store data from event streams. A set of mining methods is provided to extract user engagement features such as: attention span, scrolling depth and visible impressions. In this work, we pre...

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...