Multi-modal sensing for power tool user interface

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media configured to store instructions, the instructions causing or directing one or more devices and/or systems to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• obtaining data from a sensor configured to monitor one or more physiological characteristics of a user operating a power tool;
• determining a force profile applied in a first direction to an activation switch of the power tool, a force applied by the power tool to an item acted upon by the power tool being in a second direction opposite of the first direction;
• activating operation of the power tool in response to the force profile satisfying an activation force associated with a selected profile of the user of a plurality of user profiles associated with the power tool, wherein at least two of the plurality of user profiles include different activation forces;
• analyzing a physiological characteristic of the user using the data;
• and
• in response to the analysis of the physiological characteristic, directing an adjustment of an operating parameter of the power tool operated by the user.

A power tool comprising:

• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media configured to store instructions;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the computer-readable media and configured to execute the instructions to cause the power tool to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• obtaining data from a sensor configured to monitor one or more physiological characteristics of a user operating the power tool;
• determining a force profile applied in a first direction to an activation switch of the power tool, a force applied by the power tool to an item acted upon by the power tool being in a second direction opposite of the first direction;
• activating operation of the power tool in response to the force profile satisfying an activation force associated with a selected profile of the user of a plurality of user profiles associated with the power tool, wherein at least two of the plurality of user profiles include different activation forces;
• analyzing a physiological characteristic of the user using the data;
• and
• in response to the analysis of the physiological characteristic, directing an adjustment of an operating parameter of the power tool operated by the user.