Sensorendipity: a real-time web-enabled smartphone sensor platform for idea generation and prototyping

We introduce Sensorendipity, a real-time smartphone-based web-enabled sensor platform for novice designers of sensor-based applications. To understand the usability issues with the platform, we conducted a rapid prototyping workshop. From the results of the workshop, we addressed the major issues by including new visualizations to the visualization suite of the platform. We then conducted two case studies to understand the use of the platform in application development. Our preliminary results show that Sensorendipity does empower users to create innovative sensor-based solutions to problems by allowing easy access and real-time visualization of smartphone sensor readings, and is suitable for use in rapid prototyping.