Thinking about Attentive Analytics

In a lunch time conversation last week the concept of an 'attentive' system emerged.   You can make many systems, analytic or otherwise, alert people to conditions that are happening or trending.   Further it is also useful to have a system be able to listen for changes you want made in the analytics and alert levels being used.  So we can call this an 'attentive' system, with communications in both directions.  It could also be an interface for a fully advisory system, again attentive to both human adjustments, and data based changes.  There is benefit in combining the bandwidth of each of these interactions.    Any further ideas or research in this area?  This was in part by examining the interaction modes of the Amazon Echo'