Touchscreen Voice Messaging Blind Operation via Gesture Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current instant messaging devices require users to visually locate and press a specific button for voice operations, leading to increased operational difficulty and risk, especially during activities like driving.
Innovation Solution
An instant messaging device and method that enables blind operation through a touchable screen with a touch detector, action interpreter, and voice recorder, allowing users to initiate voice recording and sending by continuous screen presses and releases without visual guidance, accompanied by prompt signals and confirmation processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a virtual button at a specific position is used for voice operations, then the device can perform voice recording and sending functions, but the user must visually locate and press the correct position, increasing operational difficulty and risk
Solution Approach 1:
The entire touchable screen is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as both the display interface and the control input area. Any position on the screen can initiate voice recording, and specific patterns (long press + release, or double click) can trigger voice sending, eliminating the need for dedicated button positions and enabling blind operation
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects touch patterns and interprets them into appropriate voice commands. The action interpreter analyzes the touch duration, release timing, and click patterns to determine whether the user intends to record or send voice, reducing the cognitive load and visual attention required from the user
2Measurement precision
If the user must watch the screen to click the correct position, then accurate operation can be achieved, but the number of times of lowering the head increases, reducing convenience and increasing risk during activities like driving
Solution Approach 1:
The voice communication process is segmented into distinct phases with different control mechanisms: voice recording phase (initiated by long press or double click), voice sending phase (initiated by release or additional clicks). Each phase has clear tactile feedback and distinct operation patterns that can be executed without visual confirmation
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate tactile and visual feedback when touch actions are detected. The touch detector and action interpreter provide real-time response to user inputs, confirming that the intended operation (recording or sending) has been triggered, allowing users to verify operations through feedback rather than visual screen inspection
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AI summary
Provided are an instant messaging apparatus and method, relating to the field of communications. The instant messaging apparatus comprises: a touchable screen for displaying a touch action, a touch detector for detecting a touch action, an action interpreter for sending a control instruction corresponding to the touch action in response to the touch action, and a voice recorder for starting recording in response to a voice recording instruction, stopping recoding in response to a voice sending instruction and sending a currently recorded voice to a receiver in an instant messaging interface. By means of the structure of the instant messaging apparatus of the present invention, a blind operation of voice communication is achieved, so that the number of times that a user operates the instant messaging apparatus, with the head being lowered, tends to zero, thereby greatly improving the convenience of an operation, and thus, by taking driving as an example, effectively reducing the risk for driving.