Sports Watch Event Creation via Sensor Data Comparison
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Solution Overview
Problem
Sports watches with limited user interfaces struggle to efficiently create and share sporting events, leading to underutilization due to complexity and manual data entry requirements.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize sports watches with sensors and wireless communication to collect and compare data, detecting common contexts such as location and sport mode, and create events automatically, allowing users to join or follow events through a server-based notification system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If manual event creation is implemented through limited buttons on sports watch, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates due to complicated user interface requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects sporting events by analyzing sensor data from multiple users without requiring manual input. The sports watch autonomously identifies common contexts (location, sport type, time) and creates events, eliminating the need for complex manual event creation interfaces while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between multiple sports watches, collecting data from various devices, detecting common contexts, and managing event creation. This centralizes the complex processing logic on the server while keeping the sports watch interface simple and easy to operate.
2Ease of operation
If automated event detection is implemented using server-based data processing, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases due to network and server requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The server serves as an intermediary that handles the complex tasks of data collection, analysis, and event detection. The sports watch only needs to send basic sensor data and receive event notifications, keeping the watch itself simple while leveraging server-based processing for automated event creation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system divides functionality between the sports watch (data collection) and the server (event detection and management). This segmentation allows the watch to remain simple and robust while the server handles the complex automated event creation process.
3Ease of operation
If more buttons and interface elements are added to sports watch, then ease of operation improves for event creation, but device complexity increases and robustness decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automated event detection without requiring additional buttons or complex interface elements on the sports watch. The watch maintains its robust, button-minimal design while the server automatically creates events based on sensor data analysis, preserving both reliability and ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, a sports watch, a computer program, a computing device and a system for creating an event accessible over a communications network, characterized by the method comprising receiving a first sport-specific data from a first sports watch; receiving a second sport-specific data from a second sports watch; comparing the first sport-specific data and the second sport-specific data; detecting a common context with the first sport-specific data and the sport-specific second data; and creating an event based on the common context.