Dynamic Virtual Space for Remote Collaboration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current graphical user interfaces for remote communication and collaboration are non-ergonomic, unintuitive, and fail to maintain legibility and user-friendliness, especially in group discussions or when the number of users varies, leading to visual confusion or emptiness.

Innovation Solution

A graphical user interface featuring a virtual space with adjustable size and movable pictograms that adapt to the number of users, allowing for intuitive control and easy organization of virtual events, with the size of the virtual space increasing or decreasing based on the number of pictograms, maintaining a constant density and user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the virtual space size is fixed, then the interface structure is simple, but the legibility and user experience deteriorate when the number of users varies

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelegibility and user-friendlinessVSAvoidadaptation to varying number of users

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The virtual space size is made dynamic rather than fixed. The interface automatically adjusts the dimensions of the virtual space based on the number of pictograms (users) present, ensuring optimal legibility and user experience whether there are few or many users participating in the discussion.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If more users are accommodated in the virtual space, then the collaboration capability improves, but visual confusion and over-density increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of participantsVSAvoidvisual confusion

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The virtual space expands dynamically to accommodate more users without causing visual confusion. As the number of pictograms increases, the virtual space automatically enlarges to maintain appropriate spacing and density, preventing over-density and visual clutter even when many participants are present.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If the virtual space is enlarged to accommodate more users, then the user capacity increases, but the interface complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser capacityVSAvoidinterface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The interface maintains simplicity through automatic dynamic adjustment. The virtual space resizes itself based on the number of users without requiring manual configuration or complex user intervention, thereby increasing user capacity while keeping the interface mechanism simple and intuitive.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

4Ease of operation

If chat programs are used for group discussions, then communication is enabled, but the interface appears confused with unsatisfactory legibility

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication capabilityVSAvoidvisual confusion and poor legibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The virtual space dynamically adjusts its size to maintain optimal legibility during group discussions. Whether two users are chatting or twenty users are participating, the space automatically scales to ensure each pictogram remains clearly visible and distinguishable, eliminating the visual confusion that plagues fixed-interface chat programs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

5Ease of operation

If videoconferencing programs are used for remote connection, then audiovisual communication is enabled, but the programs are complex to learn and expensive to use

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudiovisual connection capabilityVSAvoidprogram complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The interface provides automatic adaptive layout that simplifies the user experience. The dynamic virtual space adjusts to the number of participants, creating an intuitive and easy-to-learn interface that does not require complex configuration or expensive licensing, while still enabling effective group videoconferencing and audiovisual communication.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10382381B2Graphical user interface for simultaneous use by remote users each having corresponding pictograms in a virtual space of the graphical user interface, method, computer program and corresponding storage medium

Publication Date: 2019.08.13 GLOWBL

AI summary

The invention provides a graphical user interface which can be used simultaneously by remote users each having at least one display screen, said graphical user interface comprising a virtual space (1) as well as a plurality of pictograms (2, 3 . . . N) respectively associated with each of said users, each pictogram being designed to appear in said virtual space (1) and disappear therefrom under the control of the user with whom it is associated, said virtual space (1) and the pictograms (2, 3 . . . N) appearing therein being designed to be displayed on the screens available to the users, the size of the virtual space (1) varying according to the number of pictograms (2, 3 . . . N) appearing in said virtual space (1). Graphical user interfaces.