Touchscreen Gesture Navigation for Hierarchical Screen Transitions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for navigating between user interface screens on touch-sensitive devices are cumbersome and inefficient, placing a significant cognitive burden on users and wasting energy, especially in battery-operated devices.
Innovation Solution
A method and interface for portable electronic devices with touch-sensitive displays that allow users to navigate between predefined screens by detecting specific finger gestures, replacing the current screen with either a home or media playback screen based on reverse gestures, thereby simplifying navigation and reducing energy consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional navigation methods are used to move between user interface screens through intermediate screens, then users can access different screens, but the navigation process becomes cumbersome and increases cognitive burden
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-identifies and stores the home screen and media playback screen as target destinations. When a gesture is detected, the system has already prepared these screens for immediate display, eliminating the need for users to navigate through intermediate screens step-by-step.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring users to navigate forward through intermediate screens to reach desired screens, the system inverts the approach by allowing direct jump to target screens (home or media playback) from any current screen through gesture detection, reversing the traditional navigation flow.
2Speed
If conventional navigation through intermediate screens is used, then screen transitions can occur, but the process takes longer and wastes energy in battery-operated devices
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables skipping intermediate navigation steps by directly transitioning from the current screen to either the home screen or media playback screen based on gesture detection. This rushes through the navigation process, eliminating unnecessary intermediate screen displays and reducing both time and energy consumption.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple intermediate screens are used for navigation, then comprehensive screen access is achieved, but cognitive burden on users increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and isolates the two most important target screens (home screen and media playback screen) from the complete set of available screens. By focusing navigation only on these extracted target screens rather than requiring navigation through all intermediate screens, the system maintains screen access capability while significantly reducing cognitive burden.
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AI summary
A method of navigating between user interface screens, including displaying a third user interface screen in a plurality of user interface screens that also includes a first and a second predefined user interface screen, the third user interface screen being other than the first and the second predefined user interface screen; detecting a finger gesture on the touch-sensitive display while displaying the third user interface screen, and in response to detecting the finger gesture on the touch-sensitive display, replacing display of the third user interface screen with display of the first predefined user interface screen when the detected finger gesture is a first finger gesture, and replacing display of the third user interface screen with display of the second predefined user interface screen when the detected finger gesture is a second finger gesture that is a reverse of the first finger gesture.