Cross-Device Usage History Display for Job Repetition Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of using multiple devices and applications leads to increased job repetition, necessitating a system that simplifies job execution by leveraging usage history across devices.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for displaying usage histories of applications executed across devices, allowing users to easily process jobs by showing usage states and histories, reducing repetitive tasks through networked devices with a user-friendly interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users execute applications across multiple devices to perform various jobs, then the versatility and functionality are improved, but the device complexity and job repetition increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback by displaying usage histories of applications across multiple devices. The display unit shows what applications have been executed on which devices, giving users visibility into their cross-device usage patterns. This feedback mechanism helps users understand and manage the complexity of using multiple devices, thereby resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users execute multiple applications across devices, then job versatility is improved, but time consumption due to repetition increases
Solution Approach 1:
By displaying usage histories that show which applications have been executed on which devices and when, the system provides users with feedback about their usage patterns. This enables users to quickly recognize repeated jobs across devices and take action to eliminate them, thereby reducing time consumption while maintaining job versatility.
3Loss of information
If detailed usage history information is provided across devices, then user awareness of device states is improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The usage history information is segmented and organized by device, showing applications executed on each specific device. This segmentation presents information in a structured, manageable format that improves user awareness without overwhelming the system with complex information processing requirements.
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AI summary
A system and method displaying usage histories of applications by devices on a network are provided. The method includes storing usage histories of applications that a first device has executed with a plurality of other devices through a network connection; setting, in the first device, at least one of a first mode and a second mode for displaying at least a part of the usage histories; displaying, if the first device is set in the first mode, usage histories of the executed applications arranged by device, with respect to the plurality of other devices; and displaying, if the first device is set in the second mode, usage histories of the plurality of other devices arranged by application, with respect to the executed applications.