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CS297 ProposalAccelerometer based motion gestures for Mobile DevicesNeel parikh (neelkparikh@yahoo.com) Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett Description: Many smart phones today use tiny sensors called accelerometers to provide enhanced user interface controls. Accelerometers measure the linear acceleration in the x,y,z directions and are often used for such things as controlling orientation of the display screen. The goal of this project is to extend the WebKit browser interface of Google's Android smart phone SDK so that accelerometer input can be used to function like a motion-sensing mouse. For instance, moving a phone up or down, left or right will correspond to scrolling in certain contexts in our extension. As another example, to make the font size larger or smaller in the browser with our extension by moving the device closer or farther to the user. Schedule:
Deliverables: The full project will be done when CS298 is completed. The following will be done by the end of CS297: 1. Creating and testing a 'Hello World' application for Android Platform using SDK 2. Integrate the OpenIntents Sensor Simulator with the android emulator to get the accelerometer values 3. Using the accelerometer to generate a simple event 4. Creating a simple motion based gesture 5. CS 297 Project Report References: [2008] Official page of Android project."http://code.google.com/android/index.html" [2007] Dennis Majoe, SQUEAK: A Mobile Multi Platform Phone and Networks Gesture Sensor, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications. [2007] Wook Bahn, A 16-bit Ultra-Thin Tri-axes Capacitive Microaccelerometer for Mobile Application, International Conference on Control,Automation and Systems. [2005] Ian Okley. Tilt to Scroll: Evaluating a Motion Based Vibrotactile Mobile Interface, Proceedings of the First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems. [2005] Eun-Seok Choi, Beatbox Music Phone: Gesture-based Interactive Mobile Phone using a Tri-axis Accelerometer, Industrial Technology,IEEE International Conference. [2003] I.J.Jang, Signal Processing of the Accelerometer for Gesture Awareness on Handheld Devices, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE lntenational Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. |