When was the last time you washed your hands? Hand hygiene is not just a good manner. Surprisingly, this simple habit influences us on many levels: personal, organizational and even governmental.

If you want to create an activity tracking application like iPhone Health or Google Fit, you probably know that they use data science to detect people’s motions throughout the day. Creating a brand-new app equals developing algorithms from scratch, and this is a stage where many businesses struggle. Therefore, we’ve decided to share our experience of launching HorseAnalytics, an application that uses data science algorithms to recognize and evaluate the activity of horses.

There are many different ways to interact with smartphones these days: touchscreen, hardware buttons, fingerprint sensor, video camera (e.g., face recognition), D-PAD, handset controls, and so on. But how about using motion gestures?