Shared Object Arrangement Screen Edit Authority Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing systems lack efficient methods to collaboratively edit and distinguish electronic sticky notes across multiple user accounts in a shared workspace, leading to usability issues during group work.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device and method that generates a shared object arrangement screen, detects editing states of electronic sticky notes, and displays them differently on user terminals to indicate edit authority, allowing users to distinguish edited objects from others.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple users can simultaneously edit electronic sticky notes in a shared workspace, then collaboration efficiency is improved, but it becomes difficult to distinguish which objects are being edited by which user
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color changes by displaying electronic sticky notes in different colors based on their editing state. Notes being edited are shown in a distinct color (e.g., yellow highlight) while non-edited notes remain in the original color. This visual differentiation allows users to immediately identify which notes are currently being modified by whom, resolving the confusion in multi-user collaboration environments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new visual dimension (display state) to represent edit authority information. By adding the editing state as an additional visual attribute alongside the note content and position, the system enables users to perceive edit status without cluttering the interface with explicit user identifiers or status indicators on each note.
2Ease of operation
If all objects are displayed uniformly on the shared screen, then the interface is simple and easy to understand, but users cannot distinguish objects with different edit authorities
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains interface simplicity by using uniform display for most notes while introducing color differentiation only for notes in editing state. This selective application of visual variation preserves the clean, simple interface for the majority of cases while providing necessary distinction when multiple users are collaborating on the same workspace.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by making only the edited notes visually distinct while leaving non-edited notes in their standard appearance. This localized differentiation ensures that the visual complexity is introduced only where necessary (at edited notes) rather than uniformly across all notes, maintaining overall interface simplicity while providing reliable edit authority distinction.
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AI summary
An information processing device executes processing of generating an object arrangement screen which is a screen shareable among multiple users corresponding to multiple accounts and on which multiple objects is arranged, displaying the object arrangement screen on a display screen of a display device operated by each of the multiple users, detecting whether a first user among the users is in an editing state having an edit authority for a first object among the objects on the object arrangement screen, and displaying, in response to detecting that the first user is in the editing state, the objects and the first object such that it is distinguishable that the first object is in the editing state in which the first user has the edit authority, on a display screen of a display device operated by a user other than the first user among the display devices.