Trends in Digital Technology

• Haptics Technology

  • feedback technology that takes advantage of user's sense of touch
• Contextual Awareness

  • device learns about your life and begin to anticipate your needs
  • technology analyzes your usage and movement, and sets preferences and gives suggestions for you
• Voice and tone recognition

  • using user's voice to confirm identity and detect person's health or emotional state
• Intelligent routing to devices

  • Technology provides precise description ad location using mobile device that can take photos using GPS (Global Positioning System)
• Eye tracking technology

  • can be used in law enforcement, airport security, retail, safety, health care, human-computer interaction
• Internet Glasses

  • technology is able to display images directly onto our retinas
• Wearable Technology

  • smart watches (for convenience), fitness tracker (health application), Virtual Reality (takes users to computer generated worlds, may disconnect them from reality)