Handedness Detection via Touch Pattern Analysis

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information handling devices often default to right-handed settings, which may not accommodate the preferences of left-handed or ambidextrous users, leading to suboptimal user experience due to buried settings and lack of awareness about handedness optimization options.

Innovation Solution

The device employs a method to analyze user input via a touch-sensitive interface to determine hand preference, using algorithms to assess touch patterns and control the graphical user interface accordingly, allowing for automatic adjustment of settings to enhance user experience based on determined handedness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the device defaults to right-handed settings, then the configuration is simple and consistent with majority usage, but left-handed or ambidextrous users experience suboptimal usability due to buried settings and lack of awareness

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveusability for left-handed usersVSAvoidsettings complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects user handedness by analyzing touch input patterns and autonomously configures the graphical user interface accordingly, eliminating the need for users to manually navigate complex settings hierarchies. The device serves itself by inferring preferences from usage behavior and applying appropriate configurations without user intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary detection of touch patterns during initial user interactions to determine handedness before the user encounters usability issues. By proactively analyzing input patterns and pre-configuring the interface based on detected preferences, the system prevents the problem rather than reacting to it later through manual settings adjustment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If manual navigation through settings hierarchies is required, then users have full control over configuration, but the process becomes time-consuming and complex for users to discover and adjust

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinterface adaptability to handednessVSAvoidtime to configure settings

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects user handedness by analyzing touch input patterns and autonomously configures the graphical user interface accordingly, eliminating the need for users to manually navigate complex settings hierarchies. The device serves itself by inferring preferences from usage behavior and applying appropriate configurations without user intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors touch input patterns and uses this feedback to determine and adjust handedness preferences. By analyzing the spatial and temporal characteristics of user interactions with the touch-sensitive interface, the system adapts the graphical user interface configuration in real-time based on detected usage patterns.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9710137B2Handedness detection

Publication Date: 2017.07.18 LENOVO SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL GMBH

AI summary

A method can include receiving information via a touch-sensitive user interface; analyzing at least a portion of the information to determine a hand preference; and controlling a graphical user interface based at least in part on the determined hand preference.