Report on Smartphone Measurement App

In this report there is discussion about the 3 smart phone applications that are used for human factors. These applications used to measure the light intensity, sound and also the temperature of the area or body.

Light measurement Application

Application name is REX light meter. This application is used to measure the shutter speed through setting the aperture. When you have a DSLR camera but you are unable to set the shutter speed of your camera this application will help you to set the shutter speed of your camera. This application can be used by many camera men for different shoots according to the requirement (Sillars, 2015).

Equipment

The equipment used for this application is android smart phone.

Procedure section

In the first step you need to open the application and then you have to set the LUX, ISO, and aperture and shutter speed. You need to set the settings of application according to your camera. After setting all the settings of the application and then you have to click on the measure. This will give you the shutter speed for your camera you need to select (Manriquez & McCluskey, 2014).

You need to set the setting according to your camera that you are using.

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Finding of Smartphone Measurement App

For this application there is no need to comparing because this application is only used for setting the shutter speed for the user easily without setting the camera.

Discussion on Smartphone Measurement App

The major advantage of this application is that you can easily set the shutter time of this application without setting the camera. The disadvantage of this application is a minor one that is this application only affects the battery of the smart phone (Ahram, 2018).

Ruler application

This application is used to measure the length of any object and place. This application can able to convert the units of length and also able to calculate the length of the straight line, area and also able to define the thread pitch (Sillars, 2015).

Equipment

Android Smart phone Procedure

In the first step you need to open this application. Then you need to set the calibration for the ruler and then by setting the ruler you can able to find the length of any object you wanted. You just have to put the desired object on your screen and you can easily measure that object and then you can also able to save the measurement history. This application is very easy to use for the users (Sillars, 2015).

The android ruler and the manual ruler is the same. However through the use of manual ruler the accuracy may be low because of human error. But this smart phone application removes the human error easily. Through the use of smart phone application of ruler the measurements can be more precise and accurate.

Discussion

There are many advantage of using the measurement application. Through the use of this application the user can able to measure the length, area and pitch without using the ruler. The other advantage is that this smart phone ruler able to measure the length more precisely than the manual ruler. Through the use of this application you can also able to save the records of your measurements. This application disadvantages are extremely minimum. That include there are many application ads that pops up after 5 minutes. Another disadvantage of this application is that it affects the battery of smart phone (Sillars, 2015).

Sound meter

This application is used to measure the sound at any place you wanted to check.

Equipment

Android Smartphone

Procedure

This application is very easy to use for the users, only you need to tab on the application icon and then after this you need to just place the phone in the sound area and then this application easily measure the sound in dB. By clicking on the setting you can able to calibrate the dB reading.

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Finding

This application is better than the manual sound meter because application able to measure more accurate sound meter. For calibration of the sound meter reading you don’t need to set the value at regular interval. In this application you just need to add the value and this can able to calibrate the sound according to that value (Sillars, 2015).

Discussion

There are many advantages of using the sound meter application. The first advantage is that you don’t need a manual sound meter you just need this application to measure the sound intensity. The other advantage is that you can easily able to calibrate your readings according to your requirements. The best advantage is that this application is user friendly you don’t need to learn tutorial. The disadvantage of using this application is that this application only affects the battery of your smart phone (Ballou, 2012).

Conclusion of Smartphone Measurement App

Summing up all the discussion from this report it is concluded that these smart phone applications are extremely valuable for daily routine. The first application is use to measure the shutter time for the DSLR camera by setting the aperture through the use of this application. The next application is used to measure the length, area and pitch of the any object easily. This application can able to measure the length value precisely than the manual ruler. This application can able to save you data for regular use. In the last part of this report there is discussion about the application that can able to measure the sound intensity at any place you want. This application has many advantages that are also discussed in detail (Sillars, 2015).

References of Smartphone Measurement App

Ahram, T. Z. (2018). Advances in Human Factors in Wearable Technologies and Game Design: Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conferences on Human Factors and Wearable Technologies, and Human Factors in Game Design and Virtual Environments, Held on July 21–25, 2018, in . Springer.

Ballou, G. (2012). A Sound Engineers Guide to Audio Test and Measurement. Taylor & Francis.

Manriquez, A., & McCluskey, T. (2014). Video Production 101: Delivering the Message. Peachpit Press.

Sillars, D. (2015). High Performance Android Apps: Improve Ratings with Speed, Optimizations, and Testing. O'Reilly Media, Inc.