CS492 - Winter 2024 - Role Playing Exercises

Please read the RPE requirements first.

Each student in the class must select and complete ONE of the RPEs that will appear below. Each RPE team consists of 4 (or 5) people. The timeslot for each RPE will be indicated in the class schedule.

You will be slotted into an RPE more or less first-come, first-served with some minor variance. The forms below will open at 3:00pm on Tuesday January 9th, 2024 and will close at 11:59pm Friday January 12th. Students who do not express a preference by the deadline will be slotted into the remaining open spots on RPEs.

• RPE form for the 1:00pm class

You will be able to see where you have been slotted in, by visiting the course website and following the RPE link. The list of students assigned to RPEs will be continuously updated on the course website, to show what is still available to select. It is often an enjoyable challenge to discover arguments to make for a position that seems, on the surface, quite opposite to your own inclinations.

Please note that all students are expected to participate in all RPEs for their section, to present questions and comments to the teams in the discussion period. The TAs will be registering attendance and recording your participation. In addition, both teams in the RPE will be required to post up their position statements in advance of the on-line discussions.

To find out when a particular RPE will take place, please refer to the timetable.

• Role-playing exercise 1: Censorship of electronic communication in foreign countries
• Role-playing exercise 2: Piracy of Software
• Role-playing exercise 3: Universal IDs
• Role-playing exercise 4: Misinformation in social networks
• Role-playing exercise 5: Responsible AI
• Role-playing exercise 6: Net Neutrality
• Role-playing exercise 7: Professional responsibility when workers are displaced
• Role-playing exercise 8: Computers and children