R.I.P 2020
By: Utkarsha Malkar
Tags: Senior Care, AI, Technology, Pandemic, Healthcare

As our online held fall semester ends with a first-time launched elective at ISDI Parsons -ISU-Mumbai — (AIML |A Whole New World )

Communication Designers, Shrishti Sahani and Siddhi Mandora ‘ design a brave new world where AI plays a predominant role in our life as well as our death.

In a New World — Consumer Impact due to AI / ML will shape design decisions for most businesses.

Just as the Internet has been such a great driver of change across so many spheres over the past 20 years, we will see machine intelligence in the same role over the coming decades. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and (ML) Machine Learning is poised to disrupt our world. With intelligent machines enabling high-level cognitive processes like thinking, perceiving, learning, problem-solving and decision making, coupled with advances in data collection and aggregation, analytics and computer processing power, AI presents opportunities to complement supplement human intelligence and enrich the way people live and work.

A relationship manager along with a AI based tracking system which enables to keep track of vitals and well-being of the policy holder. An inbuilt camera in device of choice, non- intrusive and remotely controlled can let you know if your dear ones are indeed safe.

No longer will we need to worry about our little ones left stranded outside a mortuary or senior citizens abandoned in a single apartment unit only to be discovered days after their demise. The rationale for forcing people to die alone is that isolation and social distancing will slow the spread of Covid-19 and prevent deaths, however, ripped of dignity in the last hours can be traumatizing for both the victim and the survivors who will carry the scars of the event forever in their living world.

We design how we live we, often discounting the fact that death is also a part of one’s life, and people often leave this planet without planning it! Our pampered and secured existence suddenly is compromised when we leave those decisions to people who we have never come in contact with! The pandemic has shown us one of the most gruesome faces of departing this world…with bodies piled up in ‘Morgues —unclaimed due to fear of Covid infections.

Mass burials have been a norm from NewYork Islands to Ballari. Religious faiths have been compromised on a global scale as people had to look at getting closure in the most unexpected ways.

Modern applications of AI have already given us self-driving cars and virtual assistants and have helped us detect fraud and manage resources like electricity more efficiently. Now we can apply the same smart AI application to ‘Insurance policies which can come up with a system that protects one even after one's death.

A systematic appraoch to death entails details of a persons faith, documentation and handling of financing, choice of medical facilties and the aftermath of ones demise and handling of ones remains. All can be designed and predetermined.

Policy Details: Pre-plan your departure - Camera for the security of your loved ones - Personal Relationship Manager- Regular check-ups at your convenience - Security chip.

AI Health Assistance: A Smart Camera for a Smart Generation - Tracks Movement - Thermal Body Temperature - Detection of position and rotation of parts - AI Chip helps in medical data collection - attached to Wheelchairs, Spectacles, Supportcane.

App: Unique ID provided for policyholders - Secured personal data- Data monitoring and collection - Easily accessible- Gives alerts on any kind of abnormalties.

A much-needed innovation in the ‘afterlife’ sector for senior citizens — and a new approach to death.

As AI-based solutions permeate the way we live and do business, questions on ethics, privacy and security will also emerge. Students have engaged in various speculations and predicted scenarios. Disclaimer: All creatives are hypothetical classroom projects. All rights reserved — I S D I 2 0 2 0

Creative Mentor: Prof. Utkarsha Malkar

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