Vesper is mention in Apple watch items.........
http://vesper.greenfrogenergy.com/technology/
the web site is bare for now.
Apple is developing some of their own sesnsors ideas and the algos to get useful info from them.
Nice.
Tim Saxe blog item for reference will be next
Guest Blog: New Sensor Hub Capabilities Create More User Context Questions
The availability of low power sensors and sensor hubs is starting to enable a whole new generation of smartphone, tablet and wearable applications focused on user experience. Knowing your environment will allow the phone to adapt the UI, for example, moving Google Maps onto the home screen when you are in a car, or moving the Kindle app onto the home screen when you board a train. Similarly, your music player might reorder playlists depending on your environment. Knowing your activity also helps to refine the user experience. For example, if you are walking with your phone in your pocket you might prefer a higher ringer volume than if you are sitting in your home or office.
Obviously the user experience will only be enhanced if the system correctly determines the user’s environment and activity. It would be frustrating if your phone adapted the home screen for ‘in car’ when in fact you were having breakfast. Since this is a new area there are no common definitions, let alone standards, yet. Some contexts, like ‘in car’ are easy to say but hard to define – should the phone recognize that I’m ‘in car’ the minute I sit down on the seat, or when the engine starts, or when I actually start driving? If history is any guide there will be a bumpy initial period when users have to deal with different interpretations of what each context means, and then a consensus will emerge and get codified into a set of measurable standards.
It is tempting to think that standards could be put in place first, but unlike the technical aspects of sensors, like power and noise, these standards relate to people’s experience. And that means many user trials, under a variety of conditions to understand what feels natural. So there will be a flaring of ideas deployed in a variety of products that will result in an understanding of what works and what doesn’t, followed by losing ideas falling out and a focus on refining the survivors, and of course a new burst of creativity in some new area.
What do you think? Should user experience standards be formalized or remain informal? Should they be driven by manufacturers or standards bodies or some other entities? Which ones?
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