Pointing Device Trajectory Analysis for GUI Target Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modeling environments face challenges in accurately identifying and responding to user interactions, particularly with pointing devices, as existing systems struggle to effectively determine the target of a pointing device's trajectory and adapt the display accordingly, leading to inefficient information retrieval and user experience.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a system that captures and analyzes the trajectory of a pointing device's movement to identify targets within a graphical user interface, such as tooltip windows, and adjusts the display by altering the appearance of GUI elements based on the trajectory, ensuring that relevant information is readily accessible to the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the system displays tooltips and GUI elements to provide information about modeling environment features, then information accessibility is improved, but the system fails to accurately identify the target of pointing device trajectory, resulting in inefficient user interaction
Solution Approach 1:
The system captures the trajectory of the pointing device and uses it to determine the target element. This feedback mechanism allows the system to continuously monitor and respond to user intent, displaying or hiding tooltips based on the predicted target, thereby improving both information accessibility and interaction efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of the pointing device trajectory to predict the target before the user actually clicks or selects it. By anticipating user intent through trajectory analysis, the system can prepare and display relevant information in advance, improving information accessibility without delaying user interaction
2Measurement precision
If the system captures and analyzes pointing device trajectory to identify targets, then target identification accuracy is improved, but the system complexity increases due to additional processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The trajectory analysis system serves multiple functions: it identifies the target element, determines user intent, and controls the display of tooltips and other GUI elements. By making the trajectory capture mechanism multi-functional, the patent achieves improved target identification accuracy without proportionally increasing system complexity
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system adjusts the display by altering the appearance of GUI elements based on trajectory, then user interface adaptability is improved, but the processing time and system resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs display adjustments based on trajectory analysis in advance, before the user completes the selection action. By preparing the user interface adaptively ahead of time, the system reduces actual processing time during critical user interactions while maintaining high adaptability
Data Source
AI summary
In an embodiment, a technique for identifying a target for a pointing device in a display. The technique may involve identifying a trajectory of movement of the pointing device and identifying the target for the pointing device based on at least the identified trajectory. The target may be, for example, a graphical user interface (GUI) element that may be displayed in the display or a location in the display.