Table of contents:
- How Samsung's smart watch can help us protect ourselves from the coronavirus
- An application created from home and adapted to Spanish
If this coronavirus crisis has taught us anything, it is that it is in our hands to keep it away from us. And when we say hands, we can mean it literally. Because although it may seem platitude, washing our hands is the most effective gesture to avoid contagion.
In recent months we have thoroughly washed our hands. Counting to thirty. Or singing the happy birthday song. But with the de-escalation and relaxation of habits, it is easy for us to forget how important this gesture isOr that we simply wash our hands in an inadequate or ineffective way, thinking that enough is enough. This is precisely why Hand Wash was born, an application that Samsung Electronics has just introduced for its smart watches.
This is an app that comes ready to remind us that we should clean our hands often, complying with the recommendations of the World He alth Organization (WHO) to do frequent hand hygiene. A practice that, moreover, is only considered effective if performed for at least 20 full seconds.
How Samsung's smart watch can help us protect ourselves from the coronavirus
If you have a Samsung smart watch, you're in luck, because this application called Smart Wash has been developed specifically for users of this device.But how exactly does it work? The tool is developed to remind users of the need to go wash their hands. Once it has detected that the user is washing their hands, the system counts 25 seconds and issues a warning to the user An additional 5 seconds are taken into account: the time to open the tap and apply the soap.
But there are more options, because Smart Wash also allows users to fully configure reminders,based on needs and needs. schedules for each person. Since it is not the same for a person to be confined to their home and teleworking, than another who has to leave home, take public transport and go to a face-to-face job.
In this way, it is possible to set a target of twelve handwashing per day, for example, spacing these warnings for as long as the user himself deems appropriate.The application interface will always display the number of target/performed washes and the time that has elapsed since the last hand wash, which can promptly let the user know if too much or too little time has passed, regardless of the warnings.
An application created from home and adapted to Spanish
In these days almost all of us have worked against the clock. Some more than others, of course. The team of designers and developers from the Samsung Research Institute in Bangalore have done it from their own homes, creating an application like Smart Wash, which has been translated and adapted to Spanishjust a few days ago. And that today we can use our Samsung smartwatches for the first time.
In the line of applications and functions aimed at improving the he alth of users, it is clear that Smart Wash is a perfect app to help people in these times and to keep away, The further away the better, to the dreaded virus.
