{"id":13,"date":"2011-11-01T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-11-01T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:48:00","slug":"cell-phones-kinect-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/cell-phones-kinect-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell phones + Kinect = Good idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kinect_iphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22\" title=\"kinect_iphone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kinect_iphone.jpg\" alt=\"Kinect and the iPhone\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kinect_iphone.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kinect_iphone-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo yesterday I found a video about how technology like \u201cKinect\u201d is reaching the cell phone market. Pantech is realizing a phone with this technology in Korea around November. Video of the commercial below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TofWQZe6ucU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First impression, pretty neat. Now let\u2019s disassemble this idea.<\/p>\n<p>In a practical sense there\u2019s some stuff that are not being apparent here. When some it\u2019s calling you could pick up a call easily by using a gesture as the ad shows, but when you are the one that wants to initiate a call it won\u2019t work. Cell phones usually will turn off all their sensors when they are locked to save battery, there\u2019s simply no way to keep the camera on for every time we want to perform a task with our phones, and as I said, this won\u2019t be a problem for picking up a call since the phone it\u2019s already awake when it rings, but when it\u2019s locked or sleeping the phone is not listening to you all the time. Think of it as if you could use Siri in the iPhone 4S without touching the button.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s definitive practical use for this, and might add it\u2019s really a cool idea to add this functionality. Although have a camera that actively checking for hand gestures might be a real battery drain, there might be a way to build a decent camera that performs well the task without killing your battery every time you are using your phone.<\/p>\n<p>My main problem with the video it\u2019s the lack of vision and innovation. By reproducing gestures that already work well with touch you are just creating a gimmick, a device that it\u2019s just for show off and adds very little to none to its purpose. Swiping photos by hovering your hand across the device doesn\u2019t make it better, it\u2019s just cooler, a factor that wears off in a week or less, and can actually get the user angry when the battery life will be inevitably shorter, they either introduce an great advancement in energy management or the phone will be pretty bulky.<\/p>\n<p>Still the idea it\u2019s awesome, but it must be justified with great implementations, like upgrading current touching gestures or by creating useful gestures that can\u2019t be done with current touch devices. A nice example will be to use a depth sensor to check how close or far the hand it\u2019s from the device and make the GUI react to it as a function of those changes. For drag and dropping this could be perfect, imagine you could pinch into several objects to group them, then raise your hand, scroll around the GUI and the drop them whenever you like. This kind of example could be really uncomfortable to do on an \u201conly touch\u201d based device and a visual recognition approach could be useful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Drag-and-drop-kinect-cellphone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"Drag and drop kinect-cellphone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Drag-and-drop-kinect-cellphone.png\" alt=\"Drag and Drop concept for &quot;Kinect&quot; powered phones\" width=\"534\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Drag-and-drop-kinect-cellphone.png 534w, http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Drag-and-drop-kinect-cellphone-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drag and Drop concept for &quot;Kinect&quot; powered phones<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That was just one example on what you could do with this kind of devices. Another would be to replace a lot of the 3D gestures that usually needs of an anchor, in other words, the use of two hands.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, such a device would have to be planned well in all levels to achieve an integral solution, but I think feasible to create as a mass product in the near future. It\u2019s a good idea but I don\u2019t think the product shown in the ad will popularize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday I found a video about how technology like \u201cKinect\u201d is reaching the cell phone market. Pantech is realizing a phone with this technology in Korea around November. Video of the commercial below: First impression, pretty neat. Now let\u2019s disassemble this idea. In a practical sense there\u2019s some stuff that are not being apparent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[9,8,7,11,12,10,44],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-and-computer-interaction","category-user-experience","category-user-interface","tag-concept","tag-iphone","tag-kinect","tag-motion-sensing","tag-natural-user-interface","tag-smartphone","tag-user-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}