Modular Metrics Bar for Adaptive Exercise Machine Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise machines lack an intuitive and adaptable user interface that consistently displays relevant workout metrics across different screen views and workout states, failing to enhance the user experience.
Innovation Solution
A modular metrics bar that is either floating or anchored within the graphical user interface of exercise machines, dynamically adapting to various screen views and workout states, allowing users to select and customize the displayed metrics based on their preferences and workout type.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed metrics display is used on exercise machine consoles, then the display structure is simple, but the adaptability to different workout states and screen views is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The metrics bar is designed as a dynamic UI element that automatically adjusts its position (floating vs. anchored) and content based on the current workout state and screen view. This allows the interface to adapt to different contexts without requiring complex manual configuration, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The metrics bar serves multiple functions across different workout states and screen views, acting as both a floating overlay and an anchored element. This multi-functional design enables a single component to handle various display scenarios, improving adaptability without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
2Loss of information
If multiple metrics are displayed simultaneously, then information completeness is improved, but information accessibility and user engagement decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The metrics bar segments the display area into distinct metric slots, allowing multiple metrics to be presented in an organized, non-overlapping manner. This segmentation maintains information completeness while improving accessibility by making each metric easily distinguishable and readable.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the metrics bar provide different types of metric information tailored to the specific workout context. This local quality approach ensures that the most relevant metrics are prominently displayed in accessible positions, while maintaining comprehensive information coverage across the entire bar.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the metrics bar is anchored to screen edges, then position stability is improved, but flexibility in adapting to different screen views is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The metrics bar dynamically switches between anchored and floating states based on the current screen view and workout context. This dynamic positioning resolves the contradiction by providing stability when needed (anchored state) and flexibility when required (floating state), adapting to different display scenarios automatically.
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AI summary
A system includes an exercise machine and a computing device coupled to the exercise machine. The computing device presents a metrics bar within a graphical user interface in an initial state, detects a start of a first workout experience by a user on the exercise machine, retrieve a first set of metrics from stored user preferences data based on a workout experience type, workout type, and exercise machine type of the first workout experience, and displays the first set of metrics in a display area of the metrics bar during the first workout experience. The computing device detects a start of a second workout experience, determines a second set of metrics from the stored user preferences data based on a workout experience type, workout type, and exercise machine type of the second workout experience, and displays the second set of metrics in the metrics bar during the second workout experience.