I forgot to mention: 7 - device rotation (for screen orientation and OpenMooCow)!!!! :)
Citando Vasco Névoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Paul. > Your tenacity is indeed an example. Congratulations on the fusion of > your academic and hacking lives! :) > I don't want to burden you even more, but I'd like to remind you of a > couple of details that may turn out to be important in the long run. > One thing I would like to see come true is the implementation of an > accelerometer framework that is flexible enough to accommodate all > kinds of usage, not just gestures, and you are basically sitting on it > (horay!!!). :) > Examples: > 1 - human gestures; > 2 - seismic vibrations (distributed earth quake detection), see [1]; > 3 - travel "dead reckoning", whether of humans, human-powered > vehicles, or motorized vehicles; > 4 - road comfort level and trail quality level assessment (Z-axis > vibration for geo map tagging); > 5 - morse tapping (for awkward emergencies, you never know...); > 6 - anything else you may think of in the future... > > My point is, please at least _try_ to include in your design some kind > of easily extensible framework, possibly allowing dynamic plugins or > at least compile-in modules, and package your specific gestures work > as the first modules. And obviously, the ability to support multiple > kinds of listener clients at the same time. I know it is a lot to ask, > but I think it is very well worth it. > The future community will thank you very much! :) > > Happy hacking!!! :D > > [1] > http://n2.nabble.com/Idea-for-Openmoko-application%3A-seismic-sensor-network-tp1106366p1106366.html > > Vasco. > > Citando "Paul V. Borza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> A couple of people asked me whether I will or won't continue my >> project on accelerometer-based gestures. >> My answer was always yes, and to make that clear, I've bought >> accelsense.com, and accelsense.org. >> The code has moved from http://code.google.com/p/accelges/ into a GIT >> repository located at http://repo.accelsense.org. >> >> I'm now in the first year of masters, and I've managed to get two of >> my courses into the accelerometer-based gestures (i.e. to implement >> this as homework). >> From now on, my professors require me to use SOMs (i.e. >> self-organizing maps, a type of neural networks), instead of hidden >> Markov models. >> >> A couple of you guys asked whether the efficiency and speed can be >> improved using HMMs. Again, the answer is yes, just that I don't have >> time to work on the HMM implementation anymore. >> >> Just wanted to let you know that from now on, I'll focus exclusively >> on working with the Neo, rather than the Wii to test the gestures; and >> make them smooth and natural. >> Nokia is using SOMs for gesture recognition in mobile phones, so we >> should be on the technology wave as I can tell (still, I'm just one >> guy). >> >> What I'll focus on in the 0.2 release: >> * use some code from the rotate application that is flying around. >> * keep the current Dbus system for interaction. >> * 10% of CPU (it's now using 20%), and yes it's doable. >> * no GUI, but change the text console UI to be something like 'top', >> and not just printf hundreds of xyz data. >> * reintegrate with matlab-compatible diagrams. >> * will still be in C99 and under LGPL. >> * math formulas that are used in code will have a link to >> http://wiki.accelsense.org/wiki/<page> and the formula will be written >> in LaTex. >> * some of you gave me advices on how to improve the organization of >> the project, will also do that. >> * some dependencies aren't checked, there are too many you say, will >> be removed. >> * integration with the freesmartphone.org Dbus FSO communication >> system (I've seen that it grew since I last checked it). >> * implementation of self-organizing maps. >> >> Bottom line: I'll be trying turn it in a mature project ;) >> >> You can do interesting things with SOMs, like Nokia was doing: >> detecting when the user climbs down, up or walks, just using an >> accelerometer. >> >> Thanks, >> Paul >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
