Summoning Adaptive Toolbar Items on Large Format Screens
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users interacting with large format digital displays in collaboration sessions face challenges accessing toolbar elements and digital assets due to their physical location, leading to inefficient interactions and user fatigue, especially for those with varying heights or accessibility issues.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows the toolbar and digital assets to be summoned or moved closer to the user's current location on the display through user input, using a server device to process collaboration data and update the display, enabling the toolbar to collapse and expand and digital assets to be panned to a more accessible position.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the toolbar is positioned at a fixed location on a large format display, then the display area is maximized, but users cannot easily access the toolbar when located away from it
Solution Approach 1:
The toolbar transitions from a static fixed position to a dynamic repositionable element that can be summoned to different locations on the display based on user needs, allowing it to move between a collapsed state at its original position and an expanded state at the user's current location
Solution Approach 2:
A summoning mechanism acts as an intermediary between the user and the toolbar, enabling the user to call the toolbar to their current location without permanently relocating it, thus maintaining display area while improving accessibility on demand
2Ease of operation
If the toolbar is moved closer to the user's location, then accessibility is improved, but the display area is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The toolbar implements dynamic sizing and positioning, collapsing to a compact form at its original location to minimize space usage, and expanding to full size when summoned to the user's location, thus balancing display area preservation with accessibility improvement
Solution Approach 2:
The toolbar is not permanently relocated but instead summoned partially to the user's location only when needed, allowing the majority of the display area to remain intact while providing full accessibility when the summoning action is triggered
3Device complexity
If extensive pan and zoom operations are required to access tools and assets, then the toolbar can remain in a fixed position, but user fatigue increases and interaction efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The summoning mechanism serves as an intermediary that directly transports the toolbar to the user's current location, eliminating the need for sequential pan and zoom operations and significantly reducing the steps required to access tools and assets
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for summoning a toolbar and digital assets in a collaboration workspace. The method includes receiving, by a server device, data related to a collaboration workspace including a toolbar displayed, by a large format display of a client device, at a first location in the collaboration workspace displayed on the large format display. The toolbar includes user interface elements for interacting with the collaboration workspace using the large format display. The method includes determining, by the server device, a second location in the collaboration workspace using the received data. The method includes sending, by the server device, collaboration data causing and/or allowing the toolbar including the user interface elements to move to the second location in the collaboration workspace. The collaboration data also causing and/or allowing display of the toolbar including the user interface elements at the second location.