Age-detection to
make smartphone childproof
Washington :
Parents, take note! Your smartphone may soon be able to tell if your toddler is
swiping the screen and automatically block apps that are off-limits for kids. A
number of existing smartphone apps aim to control kids’ activity on phones, but
could be disabled by tech-savvy children. Researchers from University of South
Carolina in the US and Zhejiang University in China found that automated
age-range detection would prevent kids from stumbling upon an inappropriate
website or get into a work e-mail account.
The
researchers observed two big differences between how children and adults swipe
phone screens. Since kids have smaller hands and shorter fingertips than
adults, they often touch a smaller area on the screen and make shorter swipes,
said Xiaopeng Li, a graduate student at the University of South Carolina.
Children
also tend to swipe their fingers more sluggishly across the screen, and they
are slower to switch from swiping to tapping. To gather data on these
differences, researchers built a simple app, the ‘MIT Technology Review’ reported.
They asked a group of kids between the ages of three and 11, and a group of
adults between 22 and 60 to use it.
Source | http://freepressjournal.in/
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