1. Apple Watch™ and WatchKit™
Prepared for Personal Analytics Meetup
By Gene Leybzon, Dec 2014

2. Apple Watch
Sensors:
• Accelerometer
• Gyroscope
• Heart Rate Monitor (optical)
Watch Kit

3. Apple Watch Sensors
Accelerometer
• Activity intensity
• Activity kind
Heart Rate Sensor
• Heart response to exercise
•Physical training apps
• Stress measure

4. Screen

5. Connectivity
Bluetooth to
phone
Bluetooth to
headphones
Wireless
power

6. Input Buttons
“Digital crown” (zoom)
“Conversation button” (talk)

7. Input gestures
• Vertical swipes scroll the current screen
• Horizontal swipes display the previous or
next page in a page-based interface
• Left edge swipes navigate back to the
parent interface controller
• Taps indicate selection or interaction
• “Force touch”

8. Methods of Communications
 Glances
 Notifications
 Modal sheets
 Sound

9. Glances
 Template-based
 Not scrollable, single screen
 Read-only. Tapping anywhere on the glance opens the app.
 Optional. Not all apps need a Glance, and users can select
which Glances to display.

10. Notifications
• Lightweight interactions
• Can be short- and long-view
• May contain user actions

11. Modal sheets

12. UI Elements
Labels
Images
Buttons
Switches
Sliders
Maps

13. Applications

14. Watch App and Watch Kit

15. Limitations (as of today)
 Need to have iOS 8.2 on the phone
 Need the watch 
 Watch apps really runs on iPhone, not the watch
 No HealtKit support
 No access to sensors