Research from MIT (2)
(Pentland, 2000)

Recent development: an audiovisual system to understand human utterances

Main problem: anticipation of word choice and user intent
A solution: system learns user vocabulary and its contextual use
(A look Toucan system later..)

Two 'smart' technologies:

Smart rooms
Smart clothes

Both use a variety of sensors:

Cameras,
Microphones,
EMF sensors,
Biosensors