mobrec

Nearly twenty years ago (wow!), I read and reviewed the book Ambient Findability which was trying to reconcile the (then) state of the art in search, mobile devices and the growing web of interconnected things.

With AI/ML on everyone’s lips, I wonder if the next iteration of this might be Ambient Intelligent Computing – the seamless integration of AI, sensing and real-time adjustment/adaptation without explicit commands from a person.

I can imagine a number of use cases for such technology such as:

• Monitoring people in intensive care and taking proactive measures and detecting deterioration of conditions in the early stages.
• Providing support for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients by monitoring medication consumption and location awareness.
• Multi-factor adjustments to home automation environments to optimize energy consumption, security and comfort. This could draw on the growing ecosystem of wearable to enhance presence awareness.
• Driver alertness monitoring (this one is has been attempted in a new newer vehicles)

There are, of course, many other opportunities to use this for things other than marketing and privacy invasion, but, alas, those will probably be the motivators that drive development rather than the beneficial cases discussed here.