headmap

I must confess to being absolutely fascinated by headmap.org. I’m fascinated by the idea of smart spaces which infer user intent based on learned context. For example an office space that learns that automatically adjusts the heating in a room based on predictions about a meeting occuring. Lights that switch themselves off when there’s nobody around etc. The most value is achieved when the ambient intelligence is fully integrated with other organisational information systems such as email and IM servers, project management tools, data and profile repositories etc. I fancy the idea that every node in an increasingly networked world could dynamically negotiate new cooperative strategies and operations based on an understanding of user intent. A true User Oriented Architecture. This could be communicated using a standardised information markup with transforms for hetergeneous devices to address capability differences. I’m straying into agents territory here but there was a lot of value in that research. In essence,extending the human computer interface (HCI) throughout the user environment. In particular I like the idea about capturing memories at locations, augmenting the real world with location/memory tags, a bit like the virtual worlds created by multi-player games. The possibilities are amazing & the results would perhaps be indistinguishable from magic…