Threshold Display System for Meeting Space Transition Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Transitions between different activities in a workday are inefficient due to unclear information about meeting schedules, participant status, and content access, leading to wasted time and disrupted productivity.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing threshold displays that provide digital content to employees near meeting spaces, including information on meeting schedules, participant status, and relevant documents, which adjusts content based on the employee's proximity and scheduled attendance, ensuring they are prepared for the next activity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If employees travel between activities without information assistance, then they maintain mobility, but transition time is wasted due to unclear information about meeting schedules, participant status, and content access
Solution Approach 1:
The threshold display system presents meeting information, participant status, and content access details to employees before they arrive at the meeting space. This preliminary provision of information allows employees to prepare in advance, reducing transition time when moving between activities.
Solution Approach 2:
The threshold display acts as an intermediary device positioned at the transition zone between activities. It mediates the information flow to employees during their movement, providing necessary meeting details without requiring employees to stop or search for information manually.
2Loss of information
If threshold displays provide detailed content to employees at a distance, then information accessibility is improved, but display screen real estate is wasted showing content that cannot be read
Solution Approach 1:
The threshold display system dynamically adjusts the amount and detail of content displayed based on the detected proximity of employees. When employees are far away, less detailed information is shown; when they approach, more detailed content becomes available. This dynamic adjustment optimizes both information accessibility and screen real estate utilization.
Solution Approach 2:
Different portions of the threshold display provide different levels of information detail appropriate to the viewing distance. The display creates zones of information density, with summarized content visible from a distance and detailed content reserved for closer viewing, optimizing the use of display screen real estate across different spatial zones.
3Loss of information
If threshold displays show all employee information simultaneously, then information completeness is improved, but information overload occurs making it difficult to find specific details
Solution Approach 1:
The threshold display segments employee information into organized categories and sections, such as participant status, meeting agenda, and content access. This segmentation allows employees to quickly locate specific types of information without being overwhelmed by a monolithic display of all data simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides summarized meeting information and participant status in advance on the threshold display, allowing employees to mentally prepare and identify what specific details they need to seek out. This preliminary structuring of information makes subsequent detailed retrieval more efficient.
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AI summary
A system comprising a database storing schedule information associated with different meeting spaces, at least a first threshold display located proximate at least a first meeting space, an employee tracking system, a processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving employee tracking information including locations and identities, determining the relative juxtapositions of employees with respect to the first threshold display, identifying content to be presented on the first threshold display based on identity of a first employee, a distance between the first employee and the display and the schedule information.