Presenting environmental conditions using visual perception information

A computer-program product for use in conjunction with an electronic device, the computer-program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and a computer-program mechanism embedded therein to present one or more images in a sequence of images, the computer-program mechanism including:

• instructions for receiving, from an environmental monitoring device that monitors an environmental condition in an external environment that includes the environmental monitoring device, environmental-summary information that specifies a time history of the environmental condition;
• instructions for representing the time history of the environmental condition as the sequence of images, wherein a given image includes a numerical value of the environmental condition at a given time and associated visual perceptual information, and wherein the representation of the time history of the environmental condition is other than a graph of the time history of the environmental condition;
• instructions for presenting one of the sequence of images on a touch-sensitive display in the electronic device;
• instructions for receiving a user-interface command based on user interaction with the touch-sensitive display;
• and
• instructions for presenting another of the sequence of images based on the user-interface command.

An electronic device-implemented method for presenting one or more images in a sequence of images, wherein the method comprises:

• receiving, from an environmental monitoring device that monitors an environmental condition in an external environment that includes the environmental monitoring device, environmental-summary information that specifies a time history of the environmental condition;
• using a control mechanism in the electronic device, representing the time history of the environmental condition as the sequence of images, wherein a given image includes a numerical value of the environmental condition at a given time and associated visual perceptual information, and wherein the representation of the time history of the environmental condition is other than a graph of the time history of the environmental condition;
• presenting one of the sequence of images on a touch-sensitive display in the electronic device;
• receiving a user-interface command based on user interaction with the touch-sensitive display;
• and
• presenting another of the sequence of images based on the user-interface command.