Structured Shared-UI Lists for Locating Content Items
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing shared user interfaces (UIs) face challenges in organizing and tracking content items, making it difficult for moderators to locate specific items, leading to inefficiencies in processor cycles, memory, and network bandwidth usage.
Innovation Solution
A structured arrangement of content items is created on the shared UI, with a list region that maintains awareness of select items, allowing users to easily find and track them, and includes features like permissions for editing and countdown timers to manage item visibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content items are freely added and moved on the shared UI, then user flexibility and interaction are improved, but organization and location of specific items deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The shared UI is segmented into multiple regions including a list region and a canvas region. Content items can be placed in the list region which provides structured organization, or on the canvas region for free-form interaction. This segmentation allows users to maintain flexibility while improving locateability through the structured list region.
Solution Approach 2:
A list region acts as an intermediary between the free-form canvas and the need for organization. The list region maintains references to content items without requiring physical movement of the items themselves, serving as a mediator that improves locateability while preserving user flexibility in the main canvas area.
2Ease of operation
If content items are moved or renamed by users, then user interaction and customization are improved, but ability to locate specific items deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The list region provides feedback about the location and status of content items even when they are moved or renamed on the canvas. The list maintains references to items and updates accordingly, providing continuous feedback about item locations without restricting user interaction capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by maintaining a list of content items with their location information before users move or rename them. This preliminary record-keeping ensures that location information is preserved and can be used to quickly locate items even after they have been moved or renamed on the canvas.
3Reliability
If manual search is performed to locate content items, then completeness of search is improved, but processor cycles and time are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts location and identification information from content items and stores it in the list region. This extraction allows users to locate items by referencing the list rather than performing manual searches across the entire canvas, significantly reducing processor cycles while maintaining complete search capability through the structured list.
Data Source
AI summary
Technologies are disclosed that enable a computing system to present a structured arrangement for tracking content items on a shared user interface (UI) during a communication session. The structured arrangement is a list that is displayed in a specific region of the shared UI. Inclusion of content items in the list makes it easier for users to locate and interact with those content items throughout the communication session. The ability to create and manipulate the list may be limited to only certain users such as a moderator. Use of this list can promote inclusivity and fairness. For instance, inclusion in the list may prevent content items from being forgotten or ignored. Additionally, the names of users who contributed the content items may be shown in the list thereby providing recognition for those users.