COGNITIVE BUSINESS

fitness wearable – tracking steps, monitoring
heartrate, measuring athletic performance.
Yet UA Record goes a few steps further.
Thanks to these learning capabilities
and those language, vision and speech APIs,
UA Record can tap into behavioural trends.
It connects with a database of millions of
individuals to compare your achievements
to others ‘like you’. It can recognise – by
sight – food images, to gauge nutritional
intake. Its weather domain knowledge and
news integration can help the
device to tailor your exercise
program every day to fit in
with the world around you.
The more you use it, the
more the app learns
about you.
CASE STUDY IBM'S WATSON HEALTH UNIT
IBM’s Watson Health unit is revolutionising
diabetes management through its
collaboration with Medtronic, a global
healthcare provider. Combining cognitive
computing with medical devices,
Medtronic are developing personalised
diabetes management solutions that
can offer personal care plans in almost
real-time. Diabetes device data
CogniToy is essentially a
supercomputer packaged into
a cute toy dinosaur. That may
sound like the concept of an ‘80s
comedy sci-fi, but it’s real and it’s
already interacting with kids in
test rooms today. Launched on
Kickstarter last year, CogniToy
brings cognitive solutions into
early years learning. Parents
connect the toy to a home
Wi-Fi network and input a
few preliminary details – age,
CASE STUDY COGNITOY
can be gathered and analysed instantly,
before being combined with numerous
other sources of data – including medical
records and wider population health data
– to predict risks and uncover patterns
for the patient. It’s unlike any diabetes
management solution that has come
before it, and is set to transform the lives
of diabetes sufferers.
education level, a favourite sport or food.
This helps the toy to jump straight into
conversation with the child but, from there
on in, there’s no need for programming
– although parents can maintain full
control via the Parent Panel. Using Watson,
CogniToy constantly evaluates the child’s
abilities, changing its interactions to help
further develop their skills. It can answer
questions (including those perplexing
queries that have parents heading for
Wikipedia) and tell jokes, engaging in a
naturalistic, age-appropriate style.
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