Dynamic Icon Positioning for Hygiene and Convenience
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing touch panel technologies in vehicles do not adequately address hygiene concerns when multiple users interact with the same interface, potentially leading to the spread of infectious diseases.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device equipped with an authentication system that records and learns user touch positions, dynamically rearranging icon positions on the screen to avoid previously touched areas, thereby improving hygiene without compromising user convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If icon positions are fixed for user convenience, then operational convenience is improved, but hygiene safety deteriorates due to repeated touch at same positions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making icon positions changeable rather than fixed. The system dynamically adjusts icon positions based on authentication results and touch position histories, allowing the interface to adapt its layout over time. This resolves the contradiction by enabling both convenience (through learned positions) and hygiene (through position changes that reduce repeated touching).
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by recording touch positions and using this information to adjust future icon placements. When a user authenticates, the system references their touch history and modifies icon positions accordingly, creating a closed-loop system that continuously improves both usability and hygiene based on accumulated data.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If icon positions are dynamically changed for hygiene, then hygiene safety is improved, but operational convenience deteriorates due to changing positions
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary action by pre-positioning icons based on predicted user preferences before the user actually interacts with them. Through authentication and analysis of touch histories, the system proactively arranges icons in optimal positions, so when users authenticate, their commonly used icons are already in convenient locations, eliminating the need for manual repositioning while maintaining hygiene.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service by automatically adjusting icon positions without requiring user intervention. The authentication result acquiring unit and icon position changing unit work autonomously to reposition icons based on stored touch histories, allowing the system to serve itself in optimizing its own layout while improving both hygiene and convenience.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If touch position history is recorded for each user, then hygiene effectiveness is improved, but device complexity increases due to authentication and history management systems
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies universality by designing the authentication and history management components to serve multiple functions. The authentication result acquiring unit not only verifies user identity but also triggers the icon repositioning logic. The touch position history serves both as a hygiene measure and as a basis for personalizing user experience, making the added complexity serve multiple purposes simultaneously.
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AI summary
An information processing device improves hygiene while minimizing any reduction in icon operating convenience, and comprises: an authentication result acquiring unit that acquires authentication results of a user who operates the device; a display unit displaying one or more operation icons; a touch input detecting unit detecting a touch operation on an operation icon displayed on the display unit; a touch position history recording unit detecting the touched position in the touch operation and records the touched position as a historical record in a predetermined storage unit; a screen generating unit generating a screen to be displayed on the display unit; and an icon position changing unit changing the position of the operation icon on the screen based on the history of the touched position when there is a change in the user identified in the authentication results obtained by the authentication result acquiring unit.