DC: It's about ambient awareness.
Days when more monitors take readings (every third or sixth day) will carry more information about the ambient surface than will days when only a subset of daily monitors takes readings, so our uncertainty about the ambient surface will be smaller on these days.
Putting aside the creepiness factor and important privacy issues surrounding devices that constantly collect information about us, establishing ambient contextuality to enable the kinds of conversations we do want to have is the actual end goal of all this connected stuff.
Photic entrainment is mainly mediated by a direct retinal-hypothalamic pathway that conveys to the SCN information about the level of ambient light.
In conclusion, providing the competitive evaluation comparison with ambient information about sustainable design helps develop the design awareness on sustainability with better outputs.
Future work thus should consider species-specific and also population-specific attributes of visual communication including more detailed information about signal properties, the ambient light environment in the natural habitat and the sensory experience of a potential receiver.
But the intriguing finding was that all the ambient digital information about you — a person's "digital shadow," IDC calls it — now exceeds the digital information that you generate yourself by sending an e-mail, taking digital pictures, viewing a YouTube video, and so on.
Once these similarities (and in some cases differences) are understood, human senses can provide useful information about the likely effects of ambient conditions on recently cast concrete.
