Faculty of Design

Industrial Design

Eli Saghbini

PAT

PAT, Personalized Assistive Technology, is a sixth sense interface that visualizes and optimizes your internal state, turning cognitive readiness into a tangible, trainable experience. It is a cognitive rhythm system designed to align human performance with environmental intelligence. PAT learns from the user’s biometric signals, behavioral patterns, and daily rhythms, and uses this information to adapt the environment in real time, shifting lighting, sound, and interface interaction to create conditions where flow becomes inevitable. Built to respond rather than demand, PAT operates quietly in the background, detecting when the user is ready to enter a focus state, when they are slipping into distraction, and when they need recovery. Through a combination of physiological tracking, predictive feedback loops, and an emotionally intelligent voice interface powered by Gemini, PAT becomes a partner in performance, offering gentle nudges, visual cues, and recovery rituals that are always timed to the user's inner rhythm. Designed to feel more like intuition than interface, PAT doesn't ask you to adapt to technology, it adapts to you.Insight:Current productivity, focus, and wellness tools operate in silos. Task managers, distraction blockers, mindfulness apps, and wearables each address fragments of the performance equation — but none integrate real-time physiological feedback with environment and task adaptation. As a result, users are left manually bridging the gap between intention and sustained focus.Idea:PAT unifies these domains into one seamless system. By reading biometric signals like HRV, PAT dynamically adjusts the workspace — lighting, notifications, task flow, and music — to align external conditions with the user’s internal state. In doing so, it helps users access their "sixth sense" (QUA) of cognitive rhythm: an intuitive connection between body, mind, and environment that makes focus and flow not accidental, but inevitable.Impact:PAT transforms productivity from a static, effortful process into a dynamic, adaptive experience. It doesn’t just manage tasks or block distractions; it reshapes the conditions for peak performance, unlocking latent human potential through technology that feels less like a tool — and more like an extension of intuition itself.

“Abraham Lincoln said, “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening the axe.” With the right tools and skills, we can lead to a more efficient and successful outcome. As we continue to advance as humans, there is an innate necessity to be able to shape our environment instead of adapting to it. What if that changed? What if our environment was able to adapt to us based on natural human desire, and we can just flow?How might we unlock our sixth sense through technology, creating a designed intuition between mind, body, and space?”