Layered Demo Guidance for Distraction-Free Screen Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing product demonstrations, particularly for software applications, face challenges in effectively guiding presenters to showcase all relevant features within a limited time frame while ensuring that the guidance does not distract viewers.
Innovation Solution
A system where demonstration guidance is rendered to the presenter's display as a superimposed layer, preventing it from being shared during screen sharing, allowing viewers to see the demonstration without guidance, and incorporating timed, ordered, and interactive guidance elements to assist the presenter.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If demonstration guidance is displayed on the presenter's screen, then the presenter can navigate the demonstration more effectively, but the guidance may be visible to viewers and cause distraction
Solution Approach 1:
The display content is segmented into two separate layers: a first layer containing the demonstration content and a second layer containing the guidance elements. This segmentation allows the guidance to be displayed only to the presenter while keeping the demonstration content visible to both presenter and viewers, thereby resolving the contradiction between presenter navigation assistance and viewer distraction prevention
Solution Approach 2:
A processor acts as an intermediary between the demonstration content and the display device. The processor receives demonstration content, generates or receives guidance elements, combines them into layered output, and sends the processed output to the display. This intermediary enables selective visibility of guidance elements to different audiences (presenter vs. viewers)
2Ease of operation
If demonstration guidance is superimposed over the user interface screen, then the guidance is easily visible to the presenter, but it cannot be shared with remote devices
Solution Approach 1:
The display output is segmented into separate layers with the guidance elements in a second layer superimposed over the first layer containing the user interface screen. This segmentation enables selective sharing where the first layer can be shared with remote devices while the second layer remains local to the presenter's display, resolving the contradiction between guidance visibility and shareability
Solution Approach 2:
The solution adds a vertical dimension to the display architecture by creating multiple layers (first layer for content, second layer for guidance). This dimensional change allows the same content to exist in different visibility states simultaneously - the guidance layer is visible locally but can be excluded from remote sharing, enabling both visibility and selective sharing
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AI summary
In one embodiment, a guided demonstration method includes causing execution of a demonstration and corresponding demonstration guidance, causing rendering, to a first display, at least one user interface screen of the demonstration with the corresponding demonstration guidance superimposed over the at least one user interface screen, and causing sharing over a network of the at least one user interface screen to a remote device such that the at least one user interface screen is displayed on a second display of the remote device without the demonstration guidance.