Interface Evaluation: Smart Watches and Smart Phones
Assessment of Samsung Galaxy
Allion Labs Inc. Comparison of Smart Watch Integration
Advances in Smart Watch Technology Integration
INTERFACE EVALUATION: SMART WATCHES AND SMART PHONES
The focus of this study is the evaluation of the interface between Smart Watches and Smart Phones. This study will conduct this evaluation through a review of the literature published in this area of inquiry.
Samsung Galaxy Assessment
The Smart Watch is reported in the work of Budiu (2013) to be "the next important platform, extending the range of screen sizes to design for down one notch desktop, tablet, phone and now the watch." (p.1) The Samsung Smart Watch is reported to have been released first as a "companion to the Samsung Galaxy Note phablet." (Budiu, 2013, p. 1) The phone is reported to be a large phone measuring six inches that is very inconvenient to remove from one's pocket or their purse. The user can instead use the Smart Watch which has a camera and microphone that is embedded in the wristband of the watch. In terms of functionality, it is reported that the applications that are preinstalled with the Gear are those as follows:
(1) Notifications, which you can configure for events such as getting new emails or text messages
(2) S-Voice, a voice recognition app that lets you send a text message, call someone, check your schedule, find the weather, and a few other things, but, notably, does not let you search the web dialer and contacts apps, that allow users to call from their watch
(3) Gallery, a photo gallery of pictures taken with the watch camera
(4) Media Controller, a music player
(5) Pedometer
(6) Timer and stopwatch apps
(7) a calendar app that displays the schedule for the day
(8) a voice-memo app for recording voice memos a weather app for getting the weather in your
favorite city (Budiu, 2013, p. 1)
In addition to these applications, it is reported that the following applications are available using the companion phone:
eBay, an app that display notifications for various eBay events (e.g., auction ending soon, being outbid on an item)
(1) Evernote, a simplified version of Evernote that lets users store pictures or voice memos to their Evernote account
(2) FBQuickview, a very minimalistic Facebook app
(3) Glympse, a location-sharing app
(4) My Fitness Pal, an app that helps you keep track of your caloric intake
(5) Pocket, which gives you access to the stories that you saved
(6) Vivino, an app that scans wine labels and provides additional information about the wine
(7) Zite, a news reader (Budiu, 2013, p. 1)
The Gear Manager is used to install and manage the applications. The Gear Manager runs on the companion Smart Phone and allows users to install Gear applications as well as make decisions about what applications are made priority on the Gear screen as well as which applications are allowed to send notification to the Smart Watch.. It is reported that the user customizes the phone themselves and that the screen of the watch is far too little to support "even the fairly simple informaiton architecture that characterizes most phone apps." (Budiu, 2013, p. 1)
Reported as a useful functionality is "Find my phone" which can be used when the users is within the range of the Bluetooth and when the user has the phone but not the watch 'Find my Gear' results in the watch beeping. When the watch and the phone are close to one another the phone unlocks automatically. When the phone is unable to detect the watch, the user is required to enter their password to unlock the phone. It can be extremely difficult to enter a password on a mobile phone and because of this, the automatic unlock feature is reported to be "a small first step toward making authentication easy on mobile devices." (Budiu, 2013, p. 1) The watch receives a notification when a text message is received and text messages are reported to be "fully displayed on the Gear screen" which makes this watch popular with teens who want a way to know when text messages come in but do not want to be conspicuous about it. It is reported that emails also trigger a notification on the Smart Watch but if the Gmail app is used the email messages are not shown but instead an indication simply shows that an email was received. If the email app is chosen...
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