Multi-dimensional Icon Generation from Interaction Logs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) lack efficient methods for automatically organizing and customizing software application icons based on user interactions and context data, leading to suboptimal user experience and ease-of-use.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates multi-dimensional icons by analyzing user context data to determine geometric structures and allocate scripts and gestures, allowing for dynamic and personalized icon interactions based on historic user interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multi-dimensional icons are manually created by users, then customization and personalization are improved, but ease of operation and time consumption deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates multi-dimensional icons by monitoring user interactions with applications and autonomously creating the icon structure, content cells, and allocating scripts based on observed usage patterns. This self-service approach eliminates the need for manual user creation while maintaining high customization levels that reflect actual user behavior and preferences.
2Ease of operation
If multi-dimensional icons are automatically generated, then ease of operation is improved, but adaptability and personalization deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors user interactions with applications and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust and personalize the multi-dimensional icons. By observing which applications users access frequently and how they interact with them, the system automatically tailors the icon's content cells and script allocations to match individual user preferences and usage patterns, achieving personalization without manual input.
3Loss of information
If complex geometric structures are used for icons, then information organization is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The multi-dimensional icon is segmented into multiple content cells, each representing a different application or function. This segmentation allows complex information organization within a single icon structure, with each cell being independently managed and populated with relevant scripts based on user interaction patterns, thereby organizing information effectively without overwhelming system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The multi-dimensional icon structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a visual indicator for multiple applications, provides organized access to different functions through content cells, and dynamically adapts to user preferences. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate icons or interfaces, reducing overall system complexity while improving information organization.
4Productivity
If icons display multiple applications, then productivity is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Different content cells within the multi-dimensional icon have specialized qualities and functions tailored to their specific applications. Each cell is configured with relevant scripts and visual characteristics that match its associated application, allowing users to quickly identify and access the desired function without being overwhelmed by a uniform, undifferentiated icon structure.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for cognitive composition of multi-dimensional icons and interactions are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: generating, by a computing device, interaction logs based on user context data received; identifying, by the computing device, one or more target applications and associated scripts; automatically generating, by the computing device, a multi-dimensional icon for the one or more target applications based on the interaction logs, wherein the multi-dimensional icon comprises a geometric structure including content cells; allocating, by the computing device, the scripts to respective content cells of the multi-dimensional icon.