Mousey: A Wireless Mouse App for Android

Our team researched and developed a wireless mouse application for Android smartphones. Although the ide~1 of using an Android phone as a mouse is not a new one, and there are plentiful i.~pplicc1tions on the market that function as a mouse, rhey are all impleffiented sin1i!arly to a touch pad. There were none that respond to the physical movement of the phone, allowing the user to replace a standard mouse both in form and function. The method used requires an implementation of "fused sensors,' ' the concept of tying together multiple sensors into one "virtual, " or softvvare, sensor that has improved precision and purpose. Our team used existing open source code to control the mouse pointer on the compute! ' end and to transfer data from the phone to the mouse. Research on the algorithms required to translate linear acceleration into mouse movement revealed that our project not only required the fused sensor, but also algorithms to interpret the data in a way that overrnrnes its inherent noisiness. • Acee le ro meter • Android • Applicatio