Today's mobile phones are becoming more and more intelligent, and the human sensory system is not perfect. People have invented many sensors. Nowadays, many sensors are added to our mobile phones, and many smart phones contain sensors. Sensor technology has matured day by day. It is only a matter of time before smartphone and application developers adopt this technology. They can provide users with a more compelling product interactive experience than before. Use your own sense to perceive the world around you. With more perception ability, you can better perceive things around you.
What do smart phones do with so many sensor. The emergence of many sensors has allowed the user interface of smart phones to evolve into a truly intelligent, interactive, and context-aware user interface. User location does not only refer to GPS system functions. It can perceive whether the user is indoors, outdoors, shades, beaches, movie theaters, offices, meeting rooms, desks, shopping streets, quiet libraries, lying in beds, restaurants, exercising in the gym, the weather's cold or warm, rainy or Sunny wait. The location refers to whether the phone is in a pocket, ear, desk, or handbag, whether it is placed vertically, horizontally, or the screen is facing down, etc.
Mobile phones can also "perceive" the user's physiological functions, and use sensors to measure the user's heartbeat, body temperature, emotions (such as yelling, laughing, whistling), sleeping and snoring.
"Time perception" includes the perception of the user's daily habits: the user's wake up, exercise, breakfast, driving to work and driving routes, time, and other activities until going to bed.
Depending on the needs of users and the development of smart phone manufacturers, these are the functions that can be achieved today. Sensor information can be intelligently and adaptively integrated with GPS, network information, information stored by the user on the mobile phone, and user-related data continuously collected by the mobile phone.
Once all these sensors and user-specific, context-related data are properly integrated, new applications will emerge, and most of them are currently unimaginable. The following are currently imaginable applications: During a meeting, the phone will automatically perform the following operations based on the information in your calendar and the location detected by the sensor (the meeting place is inside or outside the company): Turn off the ringtone. When the screen of the mobile phone placed on the desktop is facing up, the mobile phone will turn off the vibration function (the mobile phone vibrates on the conference table, which will affect the progress of the meeting), and only the number of the caller will be displayed on the screen. If the phone is in your pocket or the screen is down, it will turn on the vibration function.
Remind the scheduled end time of the meeting. According to the location of the phone, the vibration or display mode will be automatically selected. If you have another itinerary and need to rush to other places, the phone will estimate the required time and remind you to end the meeting to ensure that there is sufficient time to arrive at the next place. When you end the meeting and put the phone to your ear, the phone will immediately connect to your voice mailbox. When you are listening to the message, you can tap the phone twice with your finger to hang up the voicemail and call the person who left the message directly, or shake the phone to skip the message. When you put the phone in your pocket, the phone will automatically hang up the call. The above actions save the user the trouble of looking for buttons on the screen.
When you go to a restaurant to have a meal, put your phone on the table, and the phone will determine whether you are leaving based on the sound. When the phone does not hear your voice for a period of time, it will start to vibrate. If you don't touch it, it will continue to vibrate, and after 30 seconds it will emit a very loud ringtone to attract your attention and let you come back and get your phone. If you still haven't got your mobile phone, it will call you the set number (your spouse, friend), notify him/her that you have lost your mobile phone, and inform you the current location of the mobile phone.
When walking outdoors, the temperature becomes lower and the air pressure becomes higher. The phone will warn you that it may rain or snow (it will also check the weather at your location), and inform the nearest coffee shop so you can hide from the rain; it will also tell you Where can you buy an umbrella. Your cell phone will also provide you with the phone number of the taxi service company or the location of the nearest subway station.
When you are going to drive home at night, the phone will remember your habits these days. If you often listen to radio stations or play music through your phone, your phone will automatically perform these actions for you. Or, if you usually call your spouse or friend, it will call you. The phone will also check the road conditions and tell you the best route. To please you, it will find a joke on the website and read it to you. When you are in a traffic jam on the road, it will read headlines to you, or tell you the value of your stock portfolio when the stock market closes. When the phone makes a prompt, you only need to nod or shake your head to reply yes or no.
You call someone and become very angry, the phone will hear your yelling and measure your pulse (and the temperature of your hand). When you hang up the phone, it will play soothing music; tell you a famous saying or folk proverb of a certain philosopher; remember this number and notify you when this person calls you again.
In addition, the mobile phone has many functions that can be achieved. As long as the information of all sensors can be integrated intelligently, the mobile phone will no longer be just a passive device that will only be used when needed, but will become your active partner.
(Summarized by Easybom: https://www.easybom.com/)