Deformable Interaction Surface Area Recombination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Deformable interaction surfaces face challenges where effective interaction areas become blocked or scattered after deformation, leading to incomplete or lost interaction functionality, which hinders user experience.
Innovation Solution
Determining shape-related information after a folding deformation and recombining adjacent effective interaction areas into a new interaction area to provide an information output interface, allowing for continued interaction and enhanced user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the deformable interaction surface undergoes folding deformation to meet different body curves and usage scenarios, then the adaptability and user experience are improved, but the effective interaction areas become blocked or scattered, leading to loss of interaction functionality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the interaction area configuration changeable according to the deformation state. The system dynamically determines the first shape after folding deformation occurs, identifies adjacent effective interaction areas in that spatial shape, and recombines them into a new interaction area. This dynamic adaptation ensures interaction functionality is maintained across different deformation states while preserving the adaptability benefits of the deformable surface.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple effective interaction areas are scattered after deformation, then the deformable device can maintain its structural flexibility, but the interaction functionality becomes incomplete or lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies merging by combining multiple scattered effective interaction areas into a single new interaction area. After determining the first shape following folding deformation, the system identifies effective interaction areas that are adjacent in spatial position within that shape, then recombines them. This merging restores complete interaction functionality while maintaining the underlying structural flexibility of the deformable device.
3Length of moving object
If the interaction surface is folded to increase device size for usage, then the usability is improved, but the interaction areas become non-adjacent in original positions, causing functionality loss
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dimensionality change by transitioning from considering interaction areas based on original flat positions to considering them based on three-dimensional spatial adjacency after folding. The system determines the first shape in three-dimensional space following deformation, then identifies effective interaction areas that are adjacent in this spatial dimension rather than in the original two-dimensional layout. This allows the device to achieve larger usable size through folding while maintaining interaction functionality through spatial recombination.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present application disclose an interaction method, an interaction apparatus, and user equipment. The method comprises: determining shape related information of a deformable interaction surface, where the deformable interaction surface is at least used to perform information output, and the shape related information corresponds to a first shape of the deformable interaction surface after a folding deformation; determining multiple effective interaction areas on the deformable interaction surface at least according to the shape related information, where the multiple effective interaction areas meet the following conditions: in nonadjacent positions on the deformable interaction surface, and adjacent in a spatial position in the first shape; and using the multiple effective interaction areas as one interaction area at least according to a first relative position of the multiple effective interaction areas in the spatial position in the first shape to provide an information output interface to at least one interaction object. The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application can bring new experience to a user according to a deformation property of a deformable device.