On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Stefan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:02, Niluge KiWi wrote: > > > > I'm interested in the accelerometers features [1]: Recognising gestures > > is a really important part of the interface between the user and the > > phone. > > Seems this ideas gets the interest of a lot people. Nice. :) > > But as we only can choice one of them for this application, you should > be prepared for other applications, too. > > > > 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). > > Letting the user add new gestures is a key feature IMHO. Also letting > them combine different gestures to new ones. We should make it easy > for people beaing creative with this. That's where innovation can > start. :) > > If we can have a preset of already known gestures shipped with the > device, great. > > > > I'm also interested in working in the ambient noise detection in second > > choice. > > Also interesting. What I never understand completely is what kind of > cool stuff we can do with this. I mean detecting the ambient volume > level and adjust the ringing, etc is nice, but can we do more with it? > Fancy things like detect if we are in a car or plane and react > accordingly? Maybe the GPS would be better suited to that... Speed below 30km/h = walking / running Speed above 40km/h and below 240km/h = driving Speed above 600km/h = plane.
Naturally however there should be an option to override this :) Cheers, Federico _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community