All books should be intelligent, but how can books be produced which use computerised systems and analytical methods, processes more commonly deployed in business intelligence or medicine, to analyse readers and learn from them? This paper investigates the use of an Expert System for matching users to bespoke books.
The author’s artistic practice is concerned with the interface of technology and storytelling, the work presented here is used as a case study,investigating the limits and possibilities of Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence and its presence within an art and design context, as well as outlining the process and intentions of developing an intelligent system for matching users to books.