Screen Layout Transition via Physical Motion Rendering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Abrupt screen transitions in graphical user interfaces, such as those in meeting spaces, can be distracting and disrupt user context, leading to confusion and decreased attention span among audience members.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a client application that analyzes differences between screen layouts and renders intermediate, dynamic transitions using physical motion characteristics, such as acceleration and deceleration, to create a natural and gradual change, mimicking real-world movements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If abrupt screen transitions are used to change screen layouts quickly, then the screen layout can be changed efficiently and the host can maintain control, but the user experience deteriorates due to distracting flickers, loss of context, and audience confusion

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescreen layout change efficiencyVSAvoiduser distraction and context loss

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by displaying a preview of the upcoming screen layout before the actual transition occurs. This allows users to anticipate the change, maintain context, and understand what will happen next, thereby reducing distraction and confusion while still enabling efficient layout changes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The transition between screen layouts is made dynamic and continuous rather than abrupt. The system animates the transformation from the current layout to the target layout, creating a smooth visual progression that maintains user engagement and context while efficiently delivering the layout change.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Loss of information

If the host announces screen changes verbally to provide context, then user understanding improves, but the host loses attention and the meeting flow is disrupted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontext information about screen changesVSAvoidmeeting flow and host attention

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces the mechanical action of verbal announcement with an automated visual information system. The interface automatically displays layout previews and transition animations that convey context information without requiring the host to interrupt the meeting flow with verbal announcements, thus maintaining both information delivery and meeting productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Object-affected harmful factors

If continuous smooth transitions are implemented to maintain user context, then user experience improves, but the screen layout change process becomes more complex and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser context maintenanceVSAvoidtransition rendering complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The complex transition process is segmented into distinct phases: displaying the current layout, showing a preview of the target layout, animating the transition, and finally displaying the new layout. This segmentation makes the complex process more manageable and controllable while maintaining smooth visual transitions that preserve user context.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary preview state between the current and target layouts. This intermediate preview displays what the upcoming layout will look like, serving as a mediator that bridges the gap between layouts and provides context without requiring complex real-time transformation calculations during the actual transition.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS7669141B1Visual interface element transition effect

Publication Date: 2010.02.23 ADOBE INC

AI summary

In an electronic interaction space, transitioning between a first and second screen layout includes determining a difference between the first and second screen layouts, wherein the first and second screen layouts include at least one pod each, and rendering the difference as a dynamic and intermediate screen layout that uses a representation of physical motion to present a gradual change.