What is it about?
RadarFoot helps you to identify your walking surface and the wet/dry condition of it while walking.
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Why is it important?
Identifying ground surfaces while walking will provide fine-grain ground context awareness for shoes that will open up a wide range of application scenarios for smartshoe that currently getting popular.. Some of the example applications include detailed activity tracking, navigation for vision-impaired users, indoor localisation, and an input method for dynamic change of shoe cushioning.
Perspectives
I believe this article will make people think differently about entire wearable computers, including smart shoes, as not only an interface that connects with the human body but also an interface that can work as a proxy to collect vital environmental context, which could be helpful to enhance the capabilities of wearable computers further.
Don Samitha Elvitigala
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: RadarFoot: Fine-grain Ground Surface Context Awareness for Smart Shoes, October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3586183.3606738.
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