Flexible Component Visual Feedback for Task Progress
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing flexible user equipment lacks effective methods to provide visual feedback of task execution progress to users during long-duration tasks, such as data transmission or application installation, which can lead to user dissatisfaction due to lack of interaction and feedback.
Innovation Solution
A flexible component-based interactive method and apparatus that acquires deformation information upon a task trigger operation and controls the flexible component to recover from a deformed shape to an initial shape based on task execution progress, providing visual feedback of the task's progress to the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a flexible component is deformed to trigger a task, then the task can be initiated through natural user interaction, but the user cannot see the execution progress of the task
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by making the flexible component's deformation state reversible and controllable. The component maintains its deformed shape during task execution and gradually returns to its original shape as the task progresses, providing continuous visual feedback about task completion status without requiring additional display elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible component serves as an intermediary that translates the user's physical interaction (deformation) into both task initiation and progress indication. The deformation state itself becomes the mediator that communicates task status to the user, eliminating the need for separate feedback mechanisms.
2Loss of information
If a traditional progress bar is displayed on a screen, then task execution progress can be indicated, but the interaction becomes less natural and requires additional display components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the task triggering function and progress indication function into a single flexible component. The same component that the user deforms to start the task also visually indicates the task progress through its deformation state, combining multiple functions into one element and reducing overall device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible component serves itself by using its own physical state (deformation) to indicate task progress. No separate display system or additional components are needed - the component's intrinsic mechanical property becomes the feedback mechanism, making the system more efficient and simpler.
3Productivity
If the flexible component returns to its original shape immediately after deformation, then the component can be reused for the next task, but the user cannot see the task execution progress
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the flexible component's shape change over time rather than being static. The component transitions from a deformed state (task initiation) to a gradual recovery process (task execution progress) and finally to the original state (task completion). This dynamic behavior encodes task progress information in the component's temporal shape evolution.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible component is pre-configured with specific deformation characteristics that allow it to maintain the deformed shape for a controllable duration. This preliminary design enables the component to hold the deformation state long enough to provide progress feedback during task execution, then naturally recover to indicate completion and readiness for the next task.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enhances user experience by naturally associating the deformation recovery with task execution progress, allowing users to better manage their time during long tasks through visual feedback.
Implementation Method 1
acquiring deformation information corresponding to a deformation generated by the flexible component based on the task trigger operation, wherein after deforming, the flexible component corresponds to a first shape; and controlling, according to execution progress of the task, the flexible component to recover from the first shape to a second shape
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AI summary
Embodiments of this application disclose flexible component-based interactive methods and interactive apparatus and user equipment. A method disclosed herein comprises: in response to a task trigger operation for triggering a task, acquiring deformation information corresponding to a deformation generated by the flexible component based on the task trigger operation, wherein after deforming, the flexible component corresponds to a first shape; and controlling, according to execution progress of the task, the flexible component to recover from the first shape to a second shape, according to execution progress information of the task and the deformation information. In the technical solutions of the embodiments of this application, execution progress of the task may be visually fed back by using recovery of deformation related to task triggering and naturally the task is associated with an execution progress indication of the task, thereby improving user experience.