Touch Gesture Query Status Display for Digital Assistants
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Solution Overview
Problem
Devices with touch sensitive displays often fail to display the status of user queries or multiple independent queries, leading to cluttered displays when responses are generated in parallel, making it difficult for users to understand the information provided by electronic digital assistants.
Innovation Solution
An electronic digital assistant system that reads gestures on a touch sensitive display, generates queries based on these gestures, displays the query status by changing the format of the gesture, and configures the gesture area as a button upon response, allowing users to interact with the results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the electronic digital assistant displays multiple query responses simultaneously, then the user can access multiple pieces of information, but the display becomes cluttered and difficult to understand
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments multiple query responses into individual gesture indicators, each representing a separate query status. This allows multiple pieces of information to be displayed simultaneously while maintaining clarity through distinct visual separation of each query response state.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions or areas of the display are assigned different qualities or states based on query status. Each gesture indicator has localized visual properties that reflect its specific query state, enabling users to quickly understand multiple responses without overall display clutter.
2Productivity
If the electronic digital assistant processes multiple queries in parallel, then the response time for individual queries is reduced, but the user cannot track the status of each query
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides continuous feedback about the status of each parallel query through distinct gesture indicators. Each indicator updates to reflect the current state of its associated query, allowing users to track multiple simultaneous queries without sacrificing processing speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The gesture indicators dynamically change their format or appearance based on the status of their associated queries. This dynamic visual feedback system allows the display to adapt to different query states while maintaining clear differentiation between multiple parallel processing operations.
3Loss of information
If the display shows detailed query processing information, then the user understands what is happening, but the interface becomes complex and cluttered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts essential query status information from complex processing details and presents only the most relevant states through simplified gesture indicators. This extraction approach maintains transparency about query status while avoiding interface clutter by omitting unnecessary computational details.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for displaying query status information on a graphical user interface. One system includes an electronic computing device that includes one or more electronic processors communicatively coupled to a touch sensitive display. The one or more electronic processors are configured to read a gesture made on the touch sensitive display, generate a query based on the gesture, and display a displayed gesture on the touch sensitive display. The displayed gesture substantially encloses an area of the touch sensitive display. The one or more electronic processors are further configured to generate a response to the query, configure the area on the touch sensitive display substantially enclosed by the displayed gesture to be a button, receive an input indicating that the button has been touched, and output the response to the query.