Small Surfaces

Dean Bubley riffs on the iPhone motion sensors and thinks about how motion and context can be tied together.

“So, what could be motion-sensor based services? I reckon it comes back to a theme I’m developing about “context” being more important than “content”. If operators get access to the sensor APIs, they could determine a lot more about how you want to communicate. It should be possible for an advanced presence function to have status descriptions like “walking”, “on a train”, “in a car” and so on. How about a service which uses multi-context data – if the phone’s on charge and there’s been no vibration consistent with footsteps for an hour, then there’s a good probability that the user is either out of the room, or asleep. Or which detects the combination of a car’s movement “fingerprint” plus registers a Bluetooth headset being used – inference being that the user won’t be able to look at the screen, and therefore sends video calls straight to the mailbox.”

Link: Motion sensors – the next big thing in mobile phones? (disruptivewireless.blogspot.com)