Application Association Processing via Gesture-Triggered Prompt Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
As applications on touchscreen devices become increasingly complex with diverse functions, user operation complexity increases due to the need to navigate between application icons and widgets, making it difficult for users to intuitively understand the relationships between them.
Innovation Solution
An application association processing method and apparatus that detects user operation instructions to display prompt information about associated content, such as widgets or applications, through preset gestures, reducing user complexity by indicating associations between application icons and widgets or vice versa.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If applications provide multiple forms (widgets and application icons) to meet diverse user demands, then application functionality and versatility are improved, but user operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides prompt information as feedback to users when detecting preset operations on application icons or widgets. This feedback mechanism shows the association relationship between icons and widgets, helping users understand what they are interacting with and reducing operational complexity while maintaining diverse application functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The prompt information acts as an intermediary element between the application icon/widget and the user. It mediates the interaction by providing contextual information about the association relationship, making the complex relationship between multiple application forms more transparent and easier to navigate
2Adaptability or versatility
If applications include increasing widgets to provide more functions, then application versatility is improved, but user operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system detects preset operations on icons and provides feedback in the form of prompt information that reveals the association relationship. This feedback helps users navigate the increasing number of widgets and application icons without being overwhelmed by the complexity, as they can see how elements are related
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AI summary
An application association processing method includes detecting a first operation instruction entered by a user; and when it is determined that the first operation instruction is to perform, by the user, a first preset operation on first content displayed on a display interface, displaying prompt information of second content associated with the first content, where the first preset operation is an operation gesture preset by the user, and the prompt information is used to inform the user that an association relationship exists between the first content and the second content.