Beyond iPhone: Symbian device human body control.

Have you ever imagined that when your mobile rings you could answer the call just by stretching you hand muscle or just by twinkling your eye? Well, this might not be so far in the future as you think. Actually it is already today’s (or should I say yesterday’s) technology.



I have been studying this bio-feedback technology with Symbian some time now and as I have found it provides excellent (and natural) control input for mobile device. So, basically your whole body could be the interface for your mobile. Following picture will visualize the potential to you with Symbian Series60 phone.

The beauty of this is that you could control almost everything from your S60 phone using just a small “driver-like” application: keyboard, games, messaging, answer/hang-up phone, control 3rd party applications, control the music player, control web access.



Ok, by now you are wondering how to provide your “body groove” to the phone and to control it. For starters there are few my earlier blogs that cover gaming aspect of this:



Enter to the next level of mobile gaming experience

Symbian device control using muscle activity - a case study part 2

Symbian device control using muscle activity - a case study



What comes to required accessories, there is small Bluetooth enabled device (like Mega Electronics Ltd produces) collecting information from you (can be also integrated to your clothes) that provides the information to mobile phone.



What do you think? Have you ever though that device control could be something beyond normal and touch IUs?



I will have presentation at the Symbian Smartphone Show “Here & Now” seminar next October and I’m glad to expand the presentation to show you “hands-on” how this can be done if you like, just send me reply to this blog.



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