Computer System Will Be an Angel on Your Shoulder, Whispering Advice,
  Step-by-Step Instruction
From: Evaluation Engineering - 12/01/2015
By: Byron Spice

Carnegie Mellon Developing Wearable Cognitive Assistant With NSF Support

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are building a computer system
called Gabriel that, like the angel that is its namesake, will seemingly look
over a person’s shoulder and whisper instructions for tasks as varied as
repairing industrial equipment, resuscitating a patient or assembling IKEA
furniture.

The National Science Foundation has awarded CMU a four-year, $2.8 million
grant to further develop the wearable cognitive assistance system. Gabriel
uses a wearable vision system, such as Google Glass, and taps into the
ubiquitous power of cloud computing via a CMU innovation called a "cloudlet."

Wearable cognitive assistants only now are becoming possible because of
recent advances in several key areas of hardware, software and computation.
Rapid advances in computer vision are making it possible for computers to
recognize objects and understand the context of scenes. Cognitive algorithms,
such as IBM's Watson, make it possible for computers to direct tasks and
cloud computing makes it possible to perform the intensive computation to run
such algorithms.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/december/cognitive-assistance-system.html

Links:
Mahadev Satyanarayanan
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya

Towards Wearable Cognitive Assistance
http://elijah.cs.cmu.edu/DOCS/ha-mobisys2014.pdf