On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:02:34 +0100 Niluge KiWi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm a student in the french engineer school ENSIMAG, and I would like > to work for OpenMoko during the Google Summer of Code. > > I'm interested in the accelerometers features [1]: Recognising > gestures is a really important part of the interface between the user > and the phone. > With the two accelerometers in the FreeRunner, I think we can > recognise lots of gestures, not only simple ones like a > "click" (which is already recognised by the accelerometers used in > the FreeRunner). The main difficulty is probably to extract the > useful data from the gestures noise : calibration may take time. The > goal is to have an almost pre-calibrated library (an idea from the > wish-list in the Wiki is to allow the user to record its own > gestures, but I think it's not easy to do it simple for the end-user). > > The accelerometers could provide not only small gestures recognition > (like the ones listed on the Wiki: up-side-down, shaking, > flipping, ...), but full 3D-space positioning from a start position > (when the software is started). > > Then we can imagine lots of uses of the library : improvements in the > control of the phone, programs specially created to use such > control(little games for examples). > > The accelerometers gestures could be combined with the touchscreen > for a better use. > For example, the gesture navigation can be activated only when > pressing the screen: > if we are viewing a large picture, zoomed in, we could move through it > by moving the phone, but we don't want it moves all the time. > > Other examples given on the Wiki [2] could be implemented by using the > library. > > > I looked at the driver for the accelerometers, and it seems it's not > yet working. I don't think I'm able to work on the driver, so I hope > it will work this summer. > Who would need multitouch when we have this? Sounds great to me. -- Ewan Marshall (ewanm89/Cap_J_L_Picard on irc) http://ewanm89.co.uk/ Geek by nature, Linux by choice.
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