Local Sensors & Touch Screen

Local Sensors & Touch Screen

We usually count 5 senses for humans, touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight.  These are the main modes we use to take in data from the outside world as information.  Similarly, a smartphone has a number of different sensors and sensing modes that enable it to take in data from the outside world.  We will start exploring these today.  Beyond the basic raw information, we'll discuss how more complex functions emerge when sensors are merged with computation, both in us and in smartphones.  

Learning Objectives

• Enumerate sensors on modern smartphones
• Figure out how they work and explain to the rest of the class 
• Learn about different modes of using some of the sensors -