Showing posts with label Digital Twins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital Twins. Show all posts

Personal Digital Twins role in Epidemics control

Apart from some sobering thoughts about Digital Immortality I didn't think I'd see much linking Virtual Humans to COVID-19 but this is an interesting post around the concept of Personal Digital Twins (CDT). As I understand it the idea is that if your digital twin is put into the agent based model of the disease then a) you get a more personal sense as to whether the virus might get you, and so modify your behaviour accordingly (although the reverse may be a danger), b) the model is more accurate if your PDT is an accurate model of you rather than a generic agent and c) by combining the model action/results and  your real world action/results the model can be improved.

Read more at: https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/2020/04/07/personal-digital-twins-role-in-epidemics-control-xi/