====== Presentation of Essay 1, Understanding the Technical World======

Your assignment was to choose a recent (max 1 year old) news story in a popular national or international news source concerning novel audio technology. You had to read the news article and prepare an analytical in-class presentation that you will give.

The presentation should focus on:

  - summarise the article (±7 minutes)
  - evaluate the news story from technical, rhetorical and sociological points of view (±2 minutes)
  - include the merit and shortcomings the story has and the possible impact the topic in the article have on society (±3 minutes)
  - You should close your presentation with an outlook into the future and with the ideation of new use-cases for this technology. (±3 minutes)

The overall presentation (±15 minutes) should be followed by q&a and discussion (±15 minutes) that the presenter will moderate.

===== Presentation Dates Essay 1 =====

**[[:uvf_02-21-17|TUE, 02-21-17]]:**

|Student 1  |Koh  |An Earpiece Translator  |

**[[:uvf_02-28-17|TUE, 02-28-17]]:**

|Student 2  |Motoi  |Outdoor Speakers  |

**[[:uvf_03-28-17|TUE, 03-28-17]]:**

|Student 3  |Soaad  |Airpods – Apple's wireless headphones  |

**[[:uvf_04-04-17|TUE, 04-04-17]]:**

|Student 4  |Veronika  |Big Brother is Listening  |

**[[:uvf_04-11-17|TUE, 04-11-17]]:**

|Student 5  |Isabella  |A radio that reads facial expressions  |

**[[:uvf_04-18-17|TUE, 04-18-17]]:**

|Student 6  |Yusuf  |A Wooden Speaker  |

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