3D Content Sharing Interface With Gaze Feedback and Entitlement Cues
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for managing content sharing in three-dimensional environments are cumbersome, inefficient, and create a significant cognitive burden on users, often requiring multiple inputs and lacking sufficient feedback, which detracts from the virtual/augmented reality experience and wastes energy, particularly in battery-operated devices.
Innovation Solution
Implementing computer systems with improved user interfaces that utilize gaze and gesture detection, touch-sensitive displays, and eye/hand-tracking components to reduce the number and nature of user inputs, provide intuitive feedback, and enhance content sharing in three-dimensional environments, including displaying controls in reduced or increased prominence based on user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional user interfaces are used for managing content sharing in three-dimensional environments, then basic functionality is provided, but the interfaces are cumbersome, require multiple inputs, and create significant cognitive burden on users
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides visual feedback by displaying indicators that show what content is being shared and with whom. The interface responds to user actions with immediate visual confirmation, reducing cognitive burden by making the system state transparent without requiring complex mental tracking of multiple inputs and their effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically manages content sharing state and permissions without requiring users to navigate complex menus or provide multiple sequential inputs. The interface self-updates to reflect current sharing status, and the system handles permission management automatically based on user selections, reducing the operational burden on users.
2Productivity
If conventional user interfaces require multiple inputs to achieve desired outcomes, then comprehensive control is provided, but user interaction efficiency decreases and cognitive burden increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-loads and pre-displays content sharing options and indicators before user selection is finalized. By preparing the interface state in advance and showing potential sharing targets proactively, the system reduces the number of sequential inputs needed and accelerates the content sharing process.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface combines multiple control functions into unified interactions. Instead of requiring separate inputs for selecting content, choosing recipients, and confirming sharing, the system merges these operations into streamlined gestures or selections, improving productivity while maintaining comprehensive control capabilities.
3Reliability
If conventional content sharing methods are used in three-dimensional environments, then basic sharing functionality is achieved, but the methods are tedious and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
Visual indicators provide continuous feedback about the current sharing state, selected content, and chosen recipients. This feedback mechanism prevents errors by making the system state explicit and allowing users to verify selections before finalizing sharing actions, thereby improving reliability without adding operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface introduces visual indicators and confirmation displays as intermediaries between user input and content sharing execution. These intermediaries serve as a buffer that allows users to review and correct selections before actions are committed, reducing errors while maintaining interaction simplicity.
4Use of energy by moving object
If conventional user interfaces are used in battery-operated devices, then full functionality is provided, but energy is wasted due to inefficient processing and extended operation time
Solution Approach 1:
The system updates visual indicators and interface elements periodically or on-demand rather than continuously. By refreshing display elements only when necessary (e.g., when sharing state changes or user interacts with the interface), the system reduces processing overhead and power consumption while maintaining full functionality and user awareness.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface automatically manages its own update cycle and resource allocation, activating full functionality only when user interaction is detected and entering lower-power states during idle periods. This self-managing approach extends battery life without sacrificing functionality when needed.
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AI summary
A computer system optionally displays a user interface object that reveals content based on whether the content is private or shared. A computer system optionally displays a user interface object that includes shared content based on whether participants have entitlement to the content. A computer system optionally displays a sharing indicator that indicates that the respective content is shared with one or more other participants.