Presenter View UI for Real-Time Talking Point Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Presenters often fail to cover intended talking points during presentations due to stress, anxiety, or time constraints, leading to distracting and unorganized presentations, and the process of reviewing or revisiting slides to address missed points consumes computing resources.

Innovation Solution

A human-computer interface that allows presenters to define talking points associated with slides, uses speech recognition to identify discussed and missed points in real-time, and provides a presenter view UI to manage navigation and ensure all points are covered without page-turning, thereby reducing resource utilization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If presenters manually review or page back through slides to ensure talking points are covered, then completeness of content delivery is improved, but presentation organization and audience engagement deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of content deliveryVSAvoidpresentation organization
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements real-time feedback by monitoring presenter speech and automatically comparing it against the predefined talking points. The presenter view UI provides immediate feedback showing which talking points have been covered and which remain, allowing presenters to ensure completeness without manually reviewing slides or disrupting the presentation flow.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If presenters page back and forth through slides to address missed talking points, then all talking points are eventually covered, but computing resources such as computing cycles, memory, storage space, and power are unnecessarily consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecoverage of talking pointsVSAvoidcomputing resource utilization
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining all talking points and their associated slides before the presentation begins. During the presentation, the system proactively monitors speech and tracks coverage status, eliminating the need for resource-intensive operations like re-rendering slides when presenters need to revisit content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of information

If presenters use traditional slide navigation methods to track talking points, then they can identify missed points, but the presentation becomes distracting and disjointed for the audience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetracking of talking pointsVSAvoidaudience distraction
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the presentation information into two distinct views: the audience view displaying only the current slide content, and the presenter view displaying talking points coverage status. This segmentation allows presenters to track all talking points comprehensively while the audience experiences a clean, distraction-free presentation without seeing navigation actions or tracking information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3891589B1Human-computer interface for navigating a presentation file
Publication Date: 2024.01.03 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

An application can provide a UI that includes UI elements for defining talking points to be discussed in conjunction with slides in a presentation file. The application can also provide a UI for assisting a user while the user is making a presentation using a presentation file for which talking points have been defined. For example, the application can recognize the speech of a presenter during a presentation and identify topics within the recognized speech. The application can then identify the talking points that the presenter has discussed based upon their identified topics. The application can also provide a presenter view UI that includes UI elements that display data identifying the talking points that have not been recognized within the user's speech during the presentation. In this way, a presenter can quickly identify the talking points that they have covered and those that they have not covered in real-time.