IHMD Alert Management via Segmented Display Regions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Immersive head-mounted displays (HMDs) lack the ability to effectively integrate and manage alerts from external electronic devices, such as refrigerators and smartphones, within their graphical user interfaces, disrupting the primary content experience without a seamless and user-friendly control mechanism.
Innovation Solution
An IHMD system that communicates with external devices to receive and display alerts, allowing users to modify settings through a graphical user interface, using a control device and processing unit to integrate data from various appliances and transmit changes back to the devices, with input options via motion sensing controllers or retinal cameras.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the IHMD displays alerts from external electronic devices, then the user can receive information from connected devices, but the primary content experience is disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The display area is segmented into different regions: a first region for primary content and a second region for alert information. This allows both primary content and alerts to be displayed simultaneously without one completely disrupting the other, resolving the contradiction between delivering alert information and maintaining primary content experience.
Solution Approach 2:
Alert information is displayed in a spatially separate dimension (second region) from the primary content (first region). This dimensional separation allows users to access alert information without losing immersion in the primary content experience, effectively resolving the contradiction between information delivery and ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the IHMD provides comprehensive control over external devices, then the user can manage device settings, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The IHMD system is designed with multi-functional capabilities to control various types of electronic devices (refrigerators, smartphones, etc.) through a unified interface. This universal control approach provides comprehensive device management without requiring separate control mechanisms for each device type, thus managing complexity while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
A control device acts as an intermediary between the IHMD and external electronic devices. This mediator handles the complexity of device communication and control protocols, allowing the IHMD to provide comprehensive control capability without the complexity being directly embedded in the HMD itself.
3Loss of information
If the alert information is displayed prominently, then the user can easily notice alerts, but the primary content visibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
Different regions of the display are assigned different qualities and purposes: the first region is optimized for primary content with full visibility, while the second region is dedicated to alert information. This local differentiation allows alerts to be visible without reducing the display area available for primary content, resolving the contradiction between alert visibility and content display area.
Data Source
AI summary
An immersive head-mounted display (IHMD) can present primary present primary content on one or more displays; receive first alert content from a first electronic appliance; determine, based on a first alert level of the first alert content, whether to pause rendering of the primary content and present the first alert content within a period of time the rendering of the primary content is paused, or to continue the rendering of the primary content and present the first alert content overlaying the primary content within a period of time the rendering of the primary content continues; and in response to a determination that the alert level is high, pause the rendering of the primary content and present the first alert content within the period of time the rendering of the primary content is paused.