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=8.3.4 social and ethical issues =

> –   opportunities to use their skills
 * ** Students learn about:  ** || **  Students learn to:  ** ||
 * ** social and ethical issues  **
 * machine-centred systems simplify what computers do at the expense of participants
 * human-centred systems as those that make participants’ work as effective and satisfying as possible
 * how the relationships between participants change as a result of the new system
 * ensuring the new system provides participants with a safe work environment
 * awareness of the impact the system may have on the participants, including:

> –   meaningful work

> –   need for change

> –   opportunities for involvement and commitment  || *  implement systems that pay as much attention to the needs of participants as they do to information technology  || This is where we look at the humanisation of information systems. Information systems are here to make our lives easier, people are supposed to be in control of the system rather than the system being in control of them. Information systems need to be human-centred rather than machine-centred. The aim for human-centred methodologies is to create systems that areunobtrusiveand that respondintuitively to the users needs. These systems need less training, less effort to use and they deliver the information that people want. Human-centred systems improveeffectivenessand allow people to work the way that they want. Machine-centred systems do the opposite to human-centred systems. These systems simplify computer processes at the expense of people. Machine-centred systems control how the users work and this is anti-productive and isn't healthy in a working environment. Users need to learn how the system works rather than the system operating the way the users works.
 * Read Me: This is a page that contains vital information for the preliminary year of the HSC. The specifications for the task can be viewed in yellow(above), while the information and other links is viewed below.**__Social and Ethical Issues__

__**Machine-centred systems simplify what computers do at the expense of participants**__ In the history of IT systems development has suffered again and again by recurring failure. These failures are sometimes