Preparing an Annotated Bibliography and overview of the Data Protection Act

Slides used in lecture, explaining coursework and providing an introduction to the Data Protection Act. Students should use these resources as guidance for the forthcoming coursework (annotated bibliography). Like all materials you can expect slides to address issues which come up future assessment activities

An Animating Spark: Mundane Computing and the Web of Data

Network connectivity is reaching more and more into the physical world. This is potentially transformative – allowing every object and service in the world to talk to one other—and to their users—through any networked interface; where online services are the connective tissue of the physical world and where physical objects are avatars of online services.