The age of Empathic Devices discusses the recent advances in AI, sensor fusion and mobile; and how this is poised to rethink what a mobile device is.

1. The age of
empathic devices
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Filip Maertens
Founders & CEO, Argus Labs

2. Let’s look at the world in 2014

3. A perfect storm is coming
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IOT
AI
Mobile
Sensors
User acceptance

4. The Mobile & Internet of Things Everything storm
Wearable
30B by 2018
Smart Appliances
US$ 290B by 2018
Apps
BILLIONS
Cars
DISRUPTED
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The coming era of smart-phone intelligence will allows any
human to interact with the physical world in completely new ways

5. The sensor storm: sensors are everywhere
Sensors are a device’s equivalent to possessing human-like sensing
capabilities and allow to sense and understand contextual cues.
Automatic gender detection, through walking patterns
Mood detection, through mobile handling
Activity detection (walking, running, sitting, …)
…
Automatic in- versus outdoor detection
Mood detection, through heart rate and oxygen level detection
…
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6. The data and AI storm
Activity of spiny stellate neuron part of primary visual
cortex, with developed horizontally-oriented receptive
field
Recent Artificial Intelligence breakthroughs are based on computational models
of the human brain.
With the worldwide adoption of smart-phones, data generation has exploded
while processing capabilities have never been as powerful as today.
500+ TB
200+ TB
700+ TB
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7. Let’s evaluate how we work with smart-phones

8. A phone or interconnected sensory device ?
2000
Verbal
2014
Non
verbal

9. User experiences are changing
Intelligent capabilities need to be interfacing with the end user, as
an overall service layer. Good privacy controls are required, but
most importantly added value must be shown through the use of
intelligent and sensing apps.
This might feel strange today, but remember the last time you didn’t
allow this?

10. Apps are changing
Service layers are emerging as background apps that only
interface with a mobile users when it’s really relevant.

11. How will we deal with mobile by 2020 ?

12. A phone is only a form factor
The functionality of a smart-phone will come in many
shapes and functionalities.
Already a first generation of smart wearable devices
illustrate how this might go.

13. Your smart-phone is a docking station
Due to increasing processing and connectivity capabilities, your smart-phone will be a
hub and controller that will be used to gather and control data from other connected
devices, implants, or wearable devices.
Emerging fog computing architectures are only a prelude.
Important channel for handling, analyzing and processing data.
Controls the user experience.

14. Your smart-phone controls your vitals

15. Your smart-phone is a
smart agent
Capable of interpreting the context of a mobile user
a smart-phone is capable of responding to the
needs of said user in a proactive manner.

16. Bringing 2020 in the present

17. What if we told you, your phone could
already be empathic ?

18. Turning smart-phones into sentient, cognitive and
empathic devices.
Make a better future by augmenting the cognitive
capacities of humans by means of an exocortex.
If we want machines to start working for us, they need to understand us, in order to become truly engaging.

19. We did it !
The first time ever people can start making machines and software
cognitive and emotionally aware of their human users

20. It’s a service layer
Cognitive platform through SDK and API
Handling > 1 million requests per second
Ambient sensing technology (no input needed)
Android, IOS*, Microsoft Mobile** & Tizen**
Built for mobile and embedded devices
Proprietary IP and patented
Now, anyone can use the human channel
*
Being
ported/tested
**
Por0ng
started

22. Self-learning
biking – running – depression – stress – happy – excited – petrol
head – soccer mom – car – party – music – meeting room – busy
day – and much, much more

23. Not only smart-phones
can be sentient !

25. The future of mobile
Is fueled by artificial intelligence and empathic algorithms and will
transform your future as if you could never have imagined !

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