Multi-hierarchical Menu Automatic Selection for Common Options
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Solution Overview
Problem
Multi-hierarchical menu systems, especially those with common options, often require users to perform cumbersome option changing operations due to the complexity of navigating through multiple hierarchical levels, leading to increased user effort and potential misselection of options.
Innovation Solution
A multi-hierarchical menu selection device and method that includes a screen output control unit, an instruction reception unit, and an automatic selection unit, which displays menus hierarchically and automatically selects options based on relationship information, particularly identifying common options within the same hierarchical menu to streamline the option changing process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a multi-hierarchical menu system with common options is implemented, then the system can provide comprehensive classification and selection capabilities, but the number of selection routes increases leading to increased user effort and complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system stores historical selection route information in advance and automatically retrieves it when needed. When a user changes an option at a branch point, the system automatically reconstructs the selection route using stored historical data, eliminating the need for users to manually navigate through complex hierarchical menus to restore previous selections.
Solution Approach 2:
The menu selection device automatically manages the selection route reconstruction process without requiring user intervention. The system monitors option changes, automatically determines when route reconstruction is needed, and executes the reconstruction using stored historical information, making the complex navigation process self-managing.
2Measurement precision
If users manually navigate through multiple hierarchical levels to change options, then precise option selection is achieved, but user effort and operation time increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-stores historical selection route information before the user needs to change options. When an option change occurs, the system immediately retrieves the relevant historical route data and automatically reconstructs the selection path, eliminating time-consuming manual navigation while maintaining precise option selection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors option changes and automatically triggers route reconstruction based on detected user actions. This feedback mechanism ensures that the selection route is dynamically updated and restored without requiring users to manually navigate through hierarchical menus, significantly reducing operation time while maintaining selection accuracy.
3Ease of operation
If the system automatically reconstructs selection routes using historical information, then user effort is reduced, but the system complexity and data management requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and stores only the essential historical selection route information needed for reconstruction, rather than maintaining complete navigation histories. This selective extraction reduces data management complexity while still enabling effective automatic route reconstruction to minimize user effort.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary data structure that bridges historical selection information and current navigation needs. This intermediary layer manages the complexity of data storage and retrieval automatically, allowing the system to reconstruct selection routes without requiring complex real-time data processing or user intervention.
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AI summary
A multi-hierarchical menu selection device, a method of operating a multi-hierarchical menu selection device, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a program for operating a multi-hierarchical menu selection device capable of labor saving of an option changing operation are provided. In a case where an instruction to change an option present in a selection route directed to the common option that is being currently selected into another option in a hierarchical menu at a higher level than the common hierarchical menu is received in a state in which one common option of one submenu of a common hierarchical menu is selected, a common option that is reachable via the other option and that is the other submenus in the same common hierarchical menu as the common option selected immediately before the change is searched for, and the searched common options are automatically selected.