The team from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland have come up with TapType, an interesting text input method that relies purely on a pair of wrist-worn devices, that ...

Security researchers have tracked commuters with over 90 percent accuracy through accelerometer data stolen from Android smartphones. In a paper describing the research, titled "We Can Track You If ...

LONDON — Motion sensing, largely enabled by Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometers, has taken more than its usual share of the headlines recently. Whilst not a rags to riches tale – ...

When professional athletes are having their performance analyzed, it's certainly not unheard of for them to wear motion capture suits while training in a lab environment. Coaches and others can then ...

A newly-released academic paper suggests that even without tapping into a GPS hackers can learn your movements through your cellphone with shocking accuracy, according to the Daily Dot. These findings ...

After debuting in Japan, earlier this year, Sony is finally ready to bring Mocopi—the company’s smartphone-based wearable motion-tracking system—to the US, and while it arrives with a slight price ...

Three researchers from China’s Nanjing University have published a report that details the ease with which a person can use a malicious application to access the accelerometer of a subway rider’s ...