Information Technology | Report 1

Running head: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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1INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Answer to question 1
In order to develop an application related to mental health of users it is important for
the developer to understand the design, psychological components as well as the functionality
that is required for the users. The adults those who are trying to get out of trauma must have
faced such situation in life that has traumatized them. That situation can be anything such as
losing someone, facing trouble at workplace and many more. In order to build this kind of an
application the developer needs to define as well as engage with the target audience. The
application should be made interactive so that the users feel as if they are a part of the
program which will help them in getting out from the trauma they are in (Torous & Roberts,
2017). Applications that are required to help the users to get out of trauma need to include
schedules, sleep tracker, medicine tracker and many more such features.
In order to build an application that can help users with hearing impairment can be
done by referring to the already existing applications in the market such as Google Live
Transcribe that makes use of ASR technology offering real time transcription of words
spoken to text. Another such application is AVA that helps a user having hearing impairment
to be a part of group discussion (De De Wet Swanepoel, Sousa & David 2019). The user can
make the members in the group connect with the application thus he can get to see live
transcriptions of group conversation that is going on.
Answer to question 2
Three ways in which ICT can be made use of to bring in reductions in carbon
footprint are as follows:
1. Turning off the PCs when not working on it- A desktop computer system having a CRT
monitor consumes the same amount of electricity as is consumed by 3 to 4 lights on a full