Information Processing for Multi-Level Electronic Sticky Note Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing education support systems fail to provide a comprehensive view of the usage status of electronic sticky notes across an entire school, limiting user understanding.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that connects with multiple terminals, allowing administrators to analyze the creation history of electronic sticky notes across a school, providing a total number of notes created by learners, and displaying the results on a designated terminal.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the system analyzes electronic sticky note usage by course or homeroom, then the detail level of analysis is improved, but the user cannot grasp the usage status across the entire school

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis detail levelVSAvoidoverall school usage status
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the analysis by allowing users to select different analysis units (course, homeroom, or school) through a dropdown menu. This segmentation enables detailed analysis at any desired level while maintaining the ability to view overall school-wide usage status, resolving the contradiction between detail level and comprehensive overview.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system adds a dimensional aspect by introducing multiple levels of analysis (course level, homeroom level, and school level) that can be navigated through a hierarchical menu structure. This dimensional change allows users to transition between detailed and overview perspectives without losing either capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of operation

If the system provides detailed analysis by course or homeroom, then the usefulness for specific groups is improved, but the ease of grasping school-wide usage is worsened

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of grasping usage statusVSAvoidschool-wide usage overview
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-configuring the analysis units and automatically aggregating data at multiple levels. When a user selects a specific course or homeroom for analysis, the system simultaneously maintains and prepares the school-wide aggregate data, so that both detailed and overview information are readily available without requiring additional user actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The analysis function is designed with multi-functionality, serving both specific group analysis (course/homeroom level) and school-wide overview (school level) through a single unified interface. This universal design allows the same system to address different information needs without requiring separate mechanisms, thereby maintaining ease of operation while preserving comprehensive information access.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP4610902A1Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and program
Publication Date: 2025.09.03 CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that is configured to be communicably connected to a first terminal used by a learning instructor or administrator and a plurality of second terminals used by a plurality of learners, the second terminals each including an electronic sticky note function for creating an electronic sticky note, and includes: an acquirer that acquires creation history information of the electronic sticky note created by the learners via the second terminals; and a display controller that, in response to a school being designated as an analysis unit of usage status of the electronic sticky note function by the learning instructor or administrator via the first terminal, derives a total number of the electronic sticky note created by the learners of a school associated with the learning instructor or administrator based on the creation history information, and causes the first terminal to display a derived result.