Attention-Based Trading Displays With Focus-Prioritized Market Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traders using multiple monitors struggle to efficiently view and process multiple trading interfaces and data windows simultaneously due to limitations in human visual field and the need for frequent window switching, leading to suboptimal workspace efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A system that tracks a user's focus on a display unit and prioritizes information updates based on their attention, separating market data into high-priority areas within the user's focus and lower-priority areas outside it, with distinct update schedules for each.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If traders use multiple monitors to view multiple trading interfaces simultaneously, then the quantity of information visible is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to limited human visual field and frequent window switching
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating update priorities for different regions of the display based on user focus. The system detects where the user is looking and assigns higher update frequency to data in the focused area while reducing update frequency for data in non-focused areas, thereby optimizing the balance between information quantity and operational ease.
2Reliability
If all market data is updated continuously regardless of user focus, then the reliability of information is improved, but the use of energy and system resources deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements local quality by varying the update rate of market data based on its spatial relationship with the user's focus area. Data in the focused region receives continuous updates for reliability, while data in peripheral regions receives reduced updates, thereby reducing overall energy consumption while maintaining reliability where needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial action by updating only the portion of market data that is currently relevant to the user's focus, rather than updating all data uniformly. This selective updating approach reduces energy consumption while maintaining sufficient reliability for the active trading tasks.
3Ease of operation
If traders switch between multiple windows to access different trading interfaces, then the ease of operation is improved by focusing on one interface at a time, but the loss of time increases due to frequent switching
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple trading interfaces and data windows into a single integrated display environment. By presenting all interfaces on one screen with differentiated update rates, the system eliminates the need for frequent window switching while maintaining ease of operation through spatial organization and selective updating.
Data Source
AI summary
A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable information recording medium displays information to a user. Market data having a first portion and a second portion is displayed on a display unit of a trading device. A user focus area is detected, at the trading device. The user focus area is associated with one of the first and second portions of the market data. A first priority is assigned to the one of the first and second portions of the market data and a second priority is assigned to another one of the first and second portions of the market data. The first priority is higher than the second priority. The market data in the first and second portions is updated as a function of the first and second priorities, respectively.