Virtual Backpack for Cross-Room Element Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual conferencing systems lack the ability for participants to take and carry elements across different rooms and virtual spaces, leading to redundancy and increased user effort in duplicating elements.
Innovation Solution
The system allows designers/administrators to designate elements within a virtual space as 'takeable,' enabling participants to associate these elements with their virtual backpack, which can be carried across different rooms and virtual spaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If elements are duplicated across rooms and virtual spaces, then elements are available in all locations, but user effort and redundancy increase
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual backpack serves as a universal container that can hold elements across multiple rooms and virtual spaces. Instead of duplicating elements in each location, the system allows participants to access the same elements from their backpack in any room, making the element availability universal while eliminating redundant copies.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual backpack acts as an intermediary between elements and rooms. Rather than directly placing elements in each room, the system uses the backpack as a mediating structure that stores elements and allows participants to retrieve them in any room, reducing the need for direct element duplication across locations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If elements are manually duplicated across rooms, then elements are available in all locations, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically establishing the virtual backpack structure and pre-configuring element storage before participants need to access elements in different rooms. This eliminates the need for participants to manually duplicate elements, saving time while maintaining element availability across locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual conferencing system provides self-service functionality where participants can automatically access elements from their backpack without manual duplication by the system administrator. The system handles element distribution automatically, reducing the time required to make elements available across multiple locations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If elements are manually duplicated across virtual spaces, then elements are available in all spaces, but computational resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual backpack provides universal element storage that can be accessed across multiple virtual spaces without requiring separate element instances in each space. This multi-functional approach allows a single element copy to serve multiple spaces, reducing computational resources needed for element management while maintaining availability across all spaces.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of creating multiple physical copies of elements in each virtual space, the system uses virtual references or links to the same element through the backpack mechanism. This allows element availability across spaces without actual duplication, reducing computational resources required for element storage and management.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing a takeable item within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for providing, in association with designing a room for virtual conferencing, an interface for designating an element within the room to be takeable during virtual conferencing; receiving, based on the interface, an indication of first user input designating the element to be takeable; providing a virtual conference between plural participants within the room, the room including the element; receiving an indication of second user input, by a first participant of the plural participants, to take the element; and associating, in response to receiving the indication of second user input, the element with the first participant.