Exercise Computer Zoom Layout for Data Readability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cycling computers have inconvenient and unsafe user interfaces for changing data layouts during a ride, requiring significant interaction and compromising between text readability and data quantity due to fixed display formats.
Innovation Solution
An exercise computer with a processing unit and non-transitory storage that allows for selective display of multiple layouts based on zoom levels, enabling users to prioritize and customize data fields, with dedicated buttons for zooming in and out to adjust the display of data values.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a fixed display layout with multiple data fields is used, then the quantity of data displayed is increased, but the text size becomes smaller and readability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The display layout transitions from fixed to dynamic, allowing users to zoom in and out to change the number of data fields displayed. The system stores multiple layouts with different numbers and arrangements of data fields, and selectively displays them based on user zoom level preferences, enabling both large readable text and flexible data quantity adjustment.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the display layout is changed during a ride, then the adaptability to user preferences is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to requiring significant interaction
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple display layouts are pre-configured and stored in the system before the ride begins. Each layout is designed with specific data field arrangements and sizes. During the ride, users can quickly switch between these pre-prepared layouts using simple zoom controls, avoiding the need for complex real-time configuration interactions.
3Loss of information
If more data fields are displayed on the same page, then the quantity of information is increased, but the device complexity increases due to navigation requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The display information is segmented into multiple layouts, each containing a specific set of data fields. Instead of displaying all data fields simultaneously on one page, the system divides them into different groups across multiple layouts. Users can navigate between these segmented layouts using simple zoom controls, reducing the complexity of navigating through numerous individual data fields on a single crowded page.
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AI summary
An exercise computer includes a page object that includes an ordered list of data fields. The ordered list includes a first data field pertaining to a first data value and a second data field pertaining to a second data value. A first layout stored defines a first cell having a position and size and a second cell, the cells for displaying the first data value and the second data value, respectively. A second layout defines a third cell also for displaying the first data value, but having a size and/or position different than those of the first cell. A processing unit of the exercise computer is configured to selectively display the first layout and the second layout and to populate each of the cells with the corresponding data value.