The First Meeting Watch Idea

One of the most exciting and daunting aspects of coming to a new university, whether that be as a fresher or as a new or mature student; is meeting new people. The shear number of people you meet in your halls of residence, from your course as well as teaching staff can be difficult to keep track of.

One particularly embarrassing social situation is forgetting the name of an individual you have met before. The first meeting watch aims to tackle this problem by detecting the movement action of a handshake whilst a discrete on board camera takes a video clip with audio of this first meeting.

The user could then replay the clip at their own leisure to remind themselves of the name and identity of the person they have met.

There are some practical obstacles to over come for this to be a feasible idea however:

• The fact that most people wear their watch on their left wrist whilst they shake hands with their right.
  
• Issues of camera direction to catch the person being met after the wrist moves back to the side of the body
  
• People do not always shake hands when they first meet, this could be overcome by voice recognition activation upon detecting "nice to meet you" or so on.