Conditional Visual Confirmations for Displayed Content Responses
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing intelligent automated assistants often display unnecessary visual outputs confirming actions, wasting time and power while reducing user confidence and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
Condition the display of visual outputs based on the content already displayed, suppressing additional outputs if the existing content confirms the action, ensuring efficient power usage and user confidence.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If visual outputs are displayed to confirm action performance, then user confidence is improved, but time and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by selectively displaying visual outputs only in specific contexts where confirmation is actually needed. The system analyzes the current user interface state and suppresses redundant visual confirmations when the action result is already visible or inferable from the displayed content, thereby reducing unnecessary time consumption while maintaining user confidence where it matters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of visual output display from a static always-on approach to a dynamic conditional approach. By evaluating suppression criteria based on the current display state and action type, the system adjusts whether visual confirmation is shown, effectively changing the display parameter from constant to variable based on contextual needs.
2Reliability
If visual outputs are displayed to confirm action performance, then user confidence is improved, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by selectively displaying visual outputs only in specific contexts where confirmation is actually needed. The system analyzes the current user interface state and suppresses redundant visual confirmations when the action result is already visible or inferable from the displayed content, thereby reducing unnecessary power consumption while maintaining user confidence where it matters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of visual output display from a static always-on approach to a dynamic conditional approach. By evaluating suppression criteria based on the current display state and action type, the system adjusts whether visual confirmation is shown, effectively changing the display parameter from constant to variable based on contextual needs.
3Loss of information
If additional visual outputs are displayed, then action confirmation is provided, but interaction efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes unnecessary visual outputs from the system response. By analyzing which visual confirmations are redundant given the current display state, the system takes out only the essential confirmations needed for user confidence, eliminating extraneous displays that would slow down interaction and reduce efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by selectively displaying visual outputs only in specific contexts where confirmation is actually needed. The system analyzes the current user interface state and suppresses redundant visual confirmations when the action result is already visible or inferable from the displayed content, thereby reducing unnecessary time consumption while maintaining user confidence where it matters.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and processes for integrating system outputs with displayed content arc provided. For example, when performing an action in response to a user request, an electronic device determines whether to display a confirmation output based on whether the content already being displayed at the time of the request updates to reflect the performance of the action.