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Sustainability review of StudyBuddy

Problem

Perform a sustainability review of StudyBuddy covering the three dimensions of this chapter.

  1. Environmental: identify the five largest likely sources of energy use or emissions (servers, AI calls, mobile app, data transfer, storage…). For each, propose a concrete improvement, the lever it uses (energy efficiency, hardware efficiency, carbon awareness) and how you would measure the effect (e.g., SCI per answered question).
  2. Social (accessibility and inclusion): list six checks based on WCAG's POUR principles and WKU's users (bilingual, mobile data, older phones), and how to test each.
  3. Technical and economic: list four risks to the system's long-term maintainability (think bus factor, dependencies, AI provider, documentation) with mitigations.
  4. Choose the three actions with the best impact/effort ratio for next semester and justify.

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