Control your mobile phone with your feet
Researchers are developing a way to input commands on your phone as you walk by altering your stride, or moving your feet in various ways. They call these "gait gestures."
So if you see someone walking funny, perhaps they're just sending a text.
More info: "Gait Gestures: Examining Stride and Foot Strike Variation as an Input Method While Walking"; Waterloo News
So if you see someone walking funny, perhaps they're just sending a text.
More info: "Gait Gestures: Examining Stride and Foot Strike Variation as an Input Method While Walking"; Waterloo News
Comments
Someday soon you will see someone staring at their phone screen while riverdancing down the street.
Posted by eddi on 01/26/25 at 04:12 AM
And for those of us that limp ?
Posted by F.U.D. in Stockholm on 01/26/25 at 05:56 AM
Cue the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Posted by ges on 01/26/25 at 12:18 PM
Here comes more head injuries from walking into things.
Posted by Jimbo on 01/27/25 at 01:05 PM
That will be fun with the snow, sleet, and ice, especially with the women (that usually walk with a smaller gait) trying to walk like a giant to emulate the big steps of the 6'3'' developpers... No need to walk into things, the ground will do the work!
Posted by Yudith on 01/29/25 at 06:14 AM
I see an opportunity for naughty-minded people to trip someone into sending a message to the wrong person.
Posted by Richard Bos on 02/01/25 at 11:18 AM
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