Spatial Affordance Control Gadget With Targeted Object Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing affordance control systems in enterprise spaces face challenges such as clutter, confusion, and inefficiency due to multiple remote controls, reliance on personal devices, and limitations of gesture-based interfaces, leading to disrupted use and lack of intuitive understanding of affordance capabilities.
Innovation Solution
Introducing gadgets with unique shapes and functionalities that can be used to intuitively control various affordances in enterprise spaces, utilizing sensors and feedback mechanisms to associate and track the gadget's location and orientation for seamless interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple remote controls and personal devices are used to control affordances, then control functionality is achieved, but clutter and confusion increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple control functions into a single tablet device interface that can control various affordances (lights, displays, HVAC, etc.) through a unified application, eliminating the need for multiple separate remote controls and reducing clutter
Solution Approach 2:
The tablet application provides universal control capabilities across different types of enterprise space affordances through a single interface, allowing one device to perform multiple control functions that previously required multiple specialized remotes
2Ease of operation
If gesture-based interfaces are used for affordance control, then contactless operation is achieved, but intuitiveness and understanding of affordance capabilities deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides visual feedback by displaying icons and indicators on the tablet screen that show which affordances are available and their current states, allowing users to understand capabilities without physical contact while maintaining intuitive comprehension through visual information
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple affordance control interfaces are provided, then control options increase, but ease of use decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The tablet application serves as a universal control interface that consolidates multiple affordance control options into a single ease-to-use platform, providing access to various control functions without requiring users to learn multiple different interface systems
Data Source
AI summary
A system for use with at least one affordance in space, the affordance including at least one controllable operating characteristic, the system for controlling the operating characteristic and comprising a gadget including a housing, an output device, at least a first sensor for sensing the gadget in space and generating sensed information, a processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving sensed information from the at least a first sensor, using the sensed information to determine the location and orientation of the gadget in space, using the location and orientation of the gadget in space to identify at least one target object in a targeted juxtaposition with respect to the gadget and controlling the output device to indicate that at least one target object has been targeted.