Live Stream GUI Interaction Guard for Accidental Bids
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing live stream event platforms on mobile devices lack effective mechanisms to prevent unintentional bids or purchases, leading to accidental interactions that can affect the offering of items and disrupt the user experience.
Innovation Solution
Implementing interactive graphical user interface (GUI) elements that require a specific ordered set of interactions, such as touching, dragging, and releasing a slider element or holding a button for a duration, to perform sensitive actions like bidding or purchasing, ensuring that users intentionally engage with the action before it is executed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single-tap mechanism is used for bidding or purchasing in live events, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to unintentional interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The system requires users to perform a preliminary action (pressing and holding the bid button for a predetermined duration) before the bidding action is executed. This preliminary holding action serves as a confirmation step that distinguishes intentional bids from accidental touches, thereby improving reliability while maintaining ease of operation through a simple gesture.
2Reliability
If multiple interaction steps are required for sensitive actions, then reliability is improved by preventing accidental bids, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a preliminary holding action where users must press and hold the bid button for a predetermined duration before the bid is executed. This single additional temporal dimension adds reliability by filtering out accidental touches while maintaining operational simplicity through a natural finger gesture, avoiding the need for multiple sequential steps.
3Reliability
If a holding duration requirement is implemented, then reliability is improved by ensuring intentional user actions, but loss of time increases due to the additional interaction duration
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the temporal parameter of the interaction by requiring the button to be held for a predetermined duration rather than a simple tap. This parameter change (from instantaneous to sustained pressure) provides a clear distinction between intentional and accidental actions. The predetermined duration is optimized to be long enough to filter accidents but short enough to maintain efficiency, thus balancing reliability with time loss.
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AI summary
A mobile software application implementing “live events,” via which a host of the event may sequentially offer one, two, three, four or more items to a plurality of guests in the event (e.g., via auction, via direct purchase, or via a giveaway). The host's device may obtain and transmit a real-time video stream, which is in turn provided to each guest's device in conjunction with real-time information about the item(s) being offered. Particular techniques protect a guest in a live event from unintentionally performing certain sensitive actions associated with the live event (e.g., placing bids or performing purchases). In particular, user interface elements may require the guest to perform a particular set of user interface interactions to perform the sensitive actions.