What Does Perceptual Computing Mean?

Perceptual computing is a new and somewhat confusing term in IT. The common definition of perceptual computing is a general advancement in technology where computers are better able to sense or analyze the environment around them and respond accordingly. Perceptual computing has a lot of potential to change the end-user interfaces through which humans interact with computers.

Techopedia Explains Perceptual Computing

One of the confusing elements of perceptual computing is that, while many of the companies developing perceptual computing technologies define it as a kind of sensory environment for computers and an interface-changing phenomenon, some top sites such as Wikipedia define ‘perceptual computing’ as the particular product of an Azerbaijani scientist named Zadeh, who worked on building linguistic interfaces using fuzzy sets.