Touch Input Prompting for GUI Widget Command Clarity
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing touch input devices lack prompts for users to understand the corresponding commands executed by specific touch input operations, leading to poor universality and user confusion over time.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that display graphic user interface (GUI) prompts for touch input operations, allowing users to intuitively execute commands by receiving and executing touch input operations corresponding to GUI widgets, using text, graphic, animation, or audio prompts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If touch input operations are mapped to commands by programmers or users without prompts, then the system can operate efficiently, but users cannot understand which commands correspond to which touch operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces prompts as intermediary elements between touch input operations and commands. These prompts display on the touch screen to mediate the relationship, showing users which touch operations correspond to which commands, thereby resolving the information loss without interfering with the direct operation flow
2Adaptability or versatility
If no prompts are provided for touch input operations, then the interface remains simple, but universality and usability deteriorate over time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by displaying prompts before the user performs the touch operation. This advance information provision helps users understand the intended command beforehand, enhancing universality and usability without adding complexity during the actual operation process
Data Source
AI summary
A method and apparatus for giving a prompt about a touch input operation is disclosed. A method comprises: displaying a graphic user interface (GUI), wherein a touch input operation prompt corresponding to at least one GUI widget is displayed on the GUI; receiving a touch input operation, wherein the received touch input operation is one of the touch input operations that are prompted on the GUI; executing a command represented by the GUI widget corresponding to the received touch input operation. The method and apparatus may give prompts about touch input operations corresponding to GUI widgets when running a GUI, so that users may execute commands represented by those GUI widgets intuitively using touch input operations.