Input and Output

Council researches how applications can capture more granularity of experience. If the IOT wants to be like the real world, then it has to try to have the same kind of all out sensorial input. Currently we see as input a lot of ‘validated content’, content that is validated prior to its inclusion in the datasets that build the IOT. The first requirement for building an ambient society is a debate with all stakeholders; citizens, small and medium enterprises, multinationals, semi government and government institutions on the granularity of experience that counts as input for the hard wired sensors that are the first line of picking up signals that count as data for the datamining, data, and not noise.

Therefore Council feels that research into and quick and dirty applications of soft biometrics and innovative ways of gaining biofeedback in intuitive and non-invasive ways is of paramount importance. Taking into account as much of the granularity of experience as input into our systems, may lead to not only an acceptance of ambient intelligence, but an embracing of it by people who realize that this could actually help them gain more agency – individual and collective - through getting realtime feedback on real actions and real needs.

This question: “How will our perceptions of our community and environment change when we become aware of our own and each others intimate body states?” is the key driver of Biomapping, core project of Christian Nold.