Microsoft reveals "Menlo" New prototype phone platform
Microsoft reveals "Menlo" New prototype phone platform
The Menlo phone was originally discovered by Mary Jo Foley with ZDNET, and is quoted to be a "prototype mobile device with a capacitive touch screen (4.1 in diagonal, 800 x 480) running Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 which incorporates a Bosch BMA150 3-axis accelerometer and Bosch BMP085 digital pressure sensor (barometer)." Microsoft introduce activity-based navigation, which uses human activities derived from sensor data to help people navigate, in particular to retrace a trail‖ previously taken by that person or another person. Such trails may include step counts, walking up/down stairs or taking elevators, compass directions, and photos taken along a user‘s path, in addition to absolute positioning (GPS and maps) when available. To explore the user experience of activity-based navigation, we built Greenfield, a mobile device interface for finding a car. We conducted a ten participant user study comparing users‘ ability to find cars across three different presentations of activity-based information as well as verbal instructions. Our results show that activity-based navigation can be used for car finding and suggest its promise more generally for supporting navigation tasks. We present lessons for future activity-based navigation interfaces, and motivate further work in this space, particularly in the area of robust activity inference.
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