HANDS-FREE MOBILE HANDLING: AN INNOVATIVE MOBILE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE

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1 International Journal of Computer Engineering & Technology (IJCET) Volume 6, Issue 12, Dec 2015, pp , Article ID: IJCET_06_12_003 Available online at ISSN Print: and ISSN Online: IAEME Publication HANDS-FREE MOBILE HANDLING: AN INNOVATIVE MOBILE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE Swasti Saxena B. Tech 2 nd Year, Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, SRM University, Kattankulathur, Tamilnadu, India ABSTRACT Today nearly every other person has a smart phone. In today s era where connectivity is of real importance, smart phones have crowded the market. The most advanced and common feature that nearly all smart phones now-adays possess is that they are touch sensitive. Complete handling of the mobile phone is now administered via touch screen. Over usage of touch pad may lead to irregular results and in worst cases it may lead to failure of touch screen. In such case the response to touch leads to abrupt and undesired results. Thus to resolve this problem we need an application to run in background that could take voice commands and may be able to perform necessary activities like calling or texting someone. Key words: Hands-Free Mobile Handling, Voice Control Mobile Computing, Android Call, Text, Notification Cite this Article: Swasti Saxena. Hands-Free Mobile Handling: An Innovative Mobile Management Technique. International Journal of Computer Engineering and Technology, 6(12), 2015, pp INTRODUCTION Today nearly 80% adults own a smart phone. Nearly all the smart phones are touch enabled. Thus over usage or rough handling of mobile phones leads to improper functioning of the smart phone disrupting the key feature of the mobile phone i.e. touch-response. In such adverse cases a demand to access the most important functionalities i.e. notifications, text messages or calling become of utmost importance editor@iaeme.com

2 Swasti Saxena 2. FAILURE CHART OF TOUCH SCREEN SMART PHONE Web 338 x 507 px x cm 72 dpi Low 483 x 725 px x cm 72 dpi Medium 1,415 x 2,122 px x cm 300 dpi High 2,578 x 3,867 px x cm 300 dpi Very high 3,456 x 5,184 px x cm 300 dpi Thus observing this major issue it became necessary to resolve it. This can be achieved by developing an application which on can be either handled on a daily basis for hands-free handling of the smart phone or in critical cases be used to call/text/ check important notifications when the touch feature of the phone breaks down. 3. HANDS FREE APPLICATION: WORKING This application runs in background and comes to foreground when VC ACTIVE command is given. This activates the voice command feature of the application. After calling out the command we call out the mobile number of our mobile phone. The application generates a three digit code and when the code is received by the same number as called out by the user then the application activates and calls out the menu i.e. 1. Call, 2.SMS, 3. Notifications. If the user calls out any of the choices then that feature of the application gets activated. Otherwise it repeats this menu again until user says exit editor@iaeme.com

3 Hands-Free Mobile Handling: An Innovative Mobile Management Technique 4. HANDS FREE APPLICATION: TECHNICAL DETAILS 4.1. Voice command activation Using Google speech recognition module we can effectively let our device understand as we speak. We ll implement the search functionality of an e-commerce application. In our application we ll import Import.android.speech.RecognizerIntent or we can simply click on ctrl+shift+o to include all the necessary files that are required. In java file we ll write the code as Button.setOnCliclListener() //this initiates the intent and we map into the action to recognize speech { Public void OnClick(View v) Intent intent=new intent(recognizerintent.action_recognizer_speech) Intent.putExtras(RecognizerIntent.Language_MODEL_FREE_FORM); Intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_MAX_RESULTS,1); Intent.putExtra(RecognizerIntent.EXTRA_LANGUAGE,Locale.English); startactivityforresult(intent,1); } 4.2. Verification In order to verify a mobile number for a genuine user we can use android sms verification technique. Below is the simple architecture diagram that explains the process of complete registration which involves the PHP, MySQL server and a SMS gateway editor@iaeme.com

4 Swasti Saxena 1. First user mobile number will be sent to our server where new user row will be created. 2. Our server requests the SMS gateway for an sms to the mobile number with a verification code. 3. SMS gateway sends an SMS to the user device with the verification code. 4. The verification code will be sent back our server again for verification. Our server verifies it and activates the user. As soon as the verification is over the voice command reads out the main menu i.e. 1. Call 2. SMS 3. Notification If we call out any of the above activities then it switches to that particular activity otherwise it goes back to the main activity by using the following mechanism: Intent intent = newintent(intent.action_main); intent.addcategory(intent.category_home); startactivity(intent); 4.3. NOTIFICATIONS Suppose we choose to hear the notifications and we choose option 3, then notifications are read out, This is achieved by the following code: Is it possible to use the broadcast receiver to listen the coming notifications.first you must declare your intent to receive notifications in your manifest, so that you can get the android.permission.bind_notification_listener_service permission. AndroidManifest.xml: <serviceandroid:name=".notificationlistener" android:label="@string/service_name" android:permission="android.permission.bind_notification_listener_servic E"> <intent-filter> <actionandroid:name="android.service.notification.notificationlistenerse rvice"/> </intent-filter> </service> Then create a NotificationListenerService class and override the onnotificationpostedfunction. By using this code in our application we can hear to the notifications CALL If we choose the option to call somebody then we can easily do that using voice dialer option in android. Here are the commands. If we want to call someone in our phone s contact list: Say Call (contact name) Example: Call Mr. Groove 18 editor@iaeme.com

5 Hands-Free Mobile Handling: An Innovative Mobile Management Technique If we want to input a phone number that is not in our contact list: Say Dial (phone number) Example: Dial Be careful not to say the number too fast or the app will not recognize what we are saying SMS In case we want to send a text message. We can do the same by giving the message send a text message and our text message feature opens. We can send a simple text message to any recipient either in our contact list or a new number. 5. CONCLUSION By using this application (HANDS FREE) we make the user more mobile-human interactive. This application solves the problem of a smart phone if it s touch screen feature breaks down. Thus this application is helpful in accessing the basic necessities i.e. calling, sending a text message and listening to notifications. This feature is also helpful for hands-free computing which is the modern way of mobile computing in today s world. REFERENCES [1] Beyers, Tim "Innovation Series: Touch screen Technology". [2] Patschon, Mark ( ). Acoustic touch technologyadds a new input dimension. Computer Design. [3] Wilson, Tracy. "HowStuffWorks "Multi-touch Systems". [4] Dec 4, 1996, Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd., Method and apparatus for controlling a telephone with voice commands. [5] Mar 3, 2005, Xiadong Mao, Audio input system [6] Wikipedia [7] Hassan Charaf. A Methodology for Model-Driven Multiplatform Mobile Application Development. International Journal of Computer Engineering and Technology, 4(1), 2013, pp [8] Shiva Prakash, J. P. Saini, S.C. Gupta and Sandip Vijay. Design and Implementation of Variable Range Energy Aware Dynamic Source Routing Protocol For Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. International Journal of Computer Engineering and Technology, 4(1), 2013, pp [9] S. Kanimozhi Suguna, Dr.S.Uma Maheswari. Comparative Analysis of Bee-Ant Colony Optimized Routing (Bacor) with Existing Routing Protocols For Scalable Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (Manets). International Journal of Computer Engineering and Technology, 3(1), 2012, pp [10] Mr. Rahul A Jichkar and Dr. M. B.Chandak. Clustering Based Performance Improvement Strategies For Mobile Ad-Hoc Network. International Journal of Computer Engineering and Technology, 4(4), 2013, pp editor@iaeme.com