Ambient interaction by smart watches

Abstract

The availability of new hardware allows new interaction and visualization metaphors for work environment and private life. Smart watches with integrated acceleration sensors and vibration feedback enable a new kind of interaction. In complement with a matrix display and connectivity to the Internet, smart watches provide assistance in ambient surroundings. This work presents challenges and opportunities of smart watches and introduces a concept of non-obtrusive interaction with smart watches by using physical activity recognition. Hereby the paper presents a prototype application of maintenance assistance and shows possible applications for ambient assistant living environments. In combination of information visualization, permanent sensing and notification, the smart watch becomes the next technology step in the row of smart devices for home-consumer and industrial users

Collaboration And Awareness Amongst Flight Attendants

“…For example, the study by Hutchins (1990) and whereabouts, and the presentation and manipulation of artefacts (Gutwin & Greenberg, 2002a;Gutwin & Greenberg, 2002b). Gestures can be performed with one's body motion, face, mouth and eyes to control devices or to enhance communication (Bieber et al, 2012). Gestures and bodily actions are visual cues of the movements of a person's head, arms, eyes or hands.…”

Combining Smartphone and Smartwatch Sensor Data in Activity Recognition Approaches: an Experimental Evaluation

“…They use, for example, very heavy devices that could not be used in realistic environments [12], and the devices are designed for a predefined task. The advances in mobile computing emerged a second phase, with works based on mobile devices, such as smartphones [19], and most recently, wearable devices [3]. In this context, data collection is less intrusive and the research achievements seem to be closer to the real world, since proposed solutions can be applied in daily situations.…”

“…The authors argue that unlike smartphones, the use of smartwatches allows the constant monitoring of physical activities because smartwatches can be used 24 hours a day and some devices are water resistant. Bieber et al [3] presented challenges and opportunities of smartwatches, as well as their potential applications for assistance and monitoring environments. According to the authors, smartwatches are a good alternative for activity recognition since they are generally used for a longer period than smartphones, most of them are water resistant, additionally, they present good battery life and several sensors that allow non-intrusive monitoring of physical activities.…”

“…Among the marketable wearable devices that can be used as data collection tool, stand out the smartwatches, because they are cheap and nonintrusive devices [13], can be worn 24 hours a day and be water resistant [2], and generally their battery life is more durable than smartphone ones [3]. Thus, they allow a less intrusive way to monitor physical activities and, consequently, the development of innovative applications [11], such as unsafe driving detection [9], the monitoring of user daily activities [16], and the assistance to people with visual impairments [13].…”

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“…This system offered the advantage of using a commercial device (Pebble) that made it feasible to reproduce the experiment in larger groups and different conditions. Smartwatches, understood as portable sets of sensors, were used by Bieber (Bieber et al, 2012) to propose applications for ambient assistant living environments. Their study focuses on the nonintrusive aspect of smartwatches, and their capability of being centers of permanent sensing and notification in your own wrist.…”