Eye Tracking Pop-Up Placement for Attention Preservation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current pop-up presentations on display devices are obtrusive, interrupting users' attention by often being displayed in the center of the screen or occupying significant space, thereby obscuring the content being viewed.
Innovation Solution
A method that detects the user's current and future focus areas using eye movement tracking, identifying a non-intrusive area on the screen to display pop-ups, ensuring they do not overlap with the user's attention and are resized to fit within available space, thus minimizing disruption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If pop-ups are displayed in the center of the screen or in prominent positions to ensure visibility, then the pop-up information can be effectively presented to users, but the user's attention to the main content is interrupted and the content becomes obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making different regions of the display have different properties - the pop-up is placed in a specific peripheral region rather than uniformly in the center, and the display adapts its characteristics (transparency, positioning) based on the local eye-tracking data from that specific region
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D screen space positioning to a 3D spatial model that incorporates depth and layering, where the pop-up can be positioned in peripheral vision areas and the system adds a temporal dimension by continuously adjusting placement based on real-time eye movement data
2Loss of information
If pop-ups are made larger to ensure content visibility, then the information can be effectively communicated, but the pop-up occupies more screen space and obscures more of the main content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the pop-up's visual properties local and adaptive - different regions of the pop-up can have different transparency levels, and the overall pop-up size and position are locally optimized based on the specific eye-tracking data rather than using a uniform approach
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the pop-up dynamic by continuously adjusting its position, size, and transparency based on real-time eye movement data, allowing the pop-up to move to peripheral areas when the user's attention is on the center and to expand or contract based on available space
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AI summary
A method, system, and computer program product for unobtrusive sizing and placement of pop-ups are provided in the illustrative embodiments. In a method for displaying a pop-up graphical user interface (GUI), using a device to detect eye movements, a first area of a display device is detected where a content is being displayed, the first area being where an attention of a user is focused. A change in the attention of the user to a second area during a future period is predicted. A third area is identified on the display device, wherein the third area excludes the first and the second areas. The pop-up GUI is displayed in the third area.