Pervasive Computing in the Mobile Era: Digital Sixth Sense and the Augmentation of Human Ability

Mobile and wearable devices are becoming more capable, but we have only just begun to see their full potential. In the near future they will know a user’s location, sense the user’s motion, and see and hear the user’s environment. This emerging capability will in the future enable them to give us a ‘digital sixth sense’, and we’ll not be able to comprehend how we lived our lives without it.