Adaptive Touch-Screen Vehicle Interface for Dynamic Layout Transformation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional vehicle user interfaces require users to adapt to a specific interaction mode, which can lead to frustration and safety issues due to complexity or poor design, and existing customizable interfaces need reconfiguration by users or manufacturers, making them impractical for automatic adaptation to various user preferences.

Innovation Solution

A touch-screen vehicle user interface that automatically adjusts to user preferences by transforming between general and specific subsystem interfaces based on user input, allowing multiple interaction techniques such as tapping, touch-and-slide, and touch-and-hold, and dynamically changing visual properties and controller layouts to enhance usability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a single fixed interface design is used in conventional vehicles, then the interface structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the ease of operation deteriorates because users must adapt to a specific interaction mode that may not suit their preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The interface dynamically transforms its layout and control element arrangement based on detected user interaction patterns. The system monitors user touches and automatically reconfigures the display from a general interface to a specific optimized interface, making the interface adaptive rather than static. This resolves the contradiction by allowing the interface to change its operational characteristics in real-time based on user behavior.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The interface serves itself by automatically detecting user preferences through interaction analysis and self-reconfiguring without requiring user intervention or manual customization settings. The system autonomously transforms the general interface into a user-specific optimized interface based on detected touch patterns, eliminating the need for users to spend time configuring the interface to their preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If a customizable interface is provided to allow users to modify the interface to meet their preferences, then the ease of operation improves, but the device complexity increases and requires reconfiguration by users or manufacturers

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidextent of automation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The interface autonomously detects user interaction patterns and automatically transforms itself to optimize for detected user preferences. The system analyzes touch behaviors (such as frequent access to certain controls) and self-reconfigures the layout without requiring users to manually customize settings or manufacturers to pre-configure for specific users, thereby maintaining high automation while improving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user interaction with the interface and uses this feedback to automatically adjust and transform the interface layout. By detecting patterns in user touches and behaviors, the interface receives real-time feedback about user preferences and automatically reconfigures itself, eliminating the need for manual customization while maintaining high adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If the interface transforms to a specific subsystem interface based on user touch, then the ease of operation improves by providing customized controls, but the device complexity increases due to multiple interface configurations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The interface dynamically transforms its configuration based on detected user interaction patterns. When the system detects that a user frequently accesses specific controls or functions, it automatically reconfigures the interface to prioritize and optimize those elements. This dynamic adaptation allows the interface to provide customized controls without requiring multiple pre-built interface configurations, as the same base interface transforms in real-time based on user behavior.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

A single general interface design serves multiple user preferences through automatic transformation. Rather than requiring separate customized interfaces for different users, the universal general interface can detect and adapt to various user interaction patterns, transforming into different optimized configurations as needed. This multi-functionality allows one interface design to fulfill the role of multiple customized interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP2305507B1Morphing vehicle user interface
Publication Date: 2019.07.17 TESLA INC
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AI summary

A method for operating a vehicle user interface is provided, the user interface utilizing a touch-screen display mounted within the vehicle. In one aspect, the visual or visual/interactive properties of the interface change after the user initiates interface interaction. In another aspect, the interface allows a user to utilize any of a variety of different control interaction techniques, all to achieve the same function.