Virtual Conferencing Room Navigation Through Authorized Participant Following
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual conferencing systems lack efficient methods for participants to automatically navigate and follow each other between different rooms within a virtual space, requiring manual coordination and additional efforts.
Innovation Solution
A virtual conferencing system that allows participants to select and authorize following each other, enabling automatic navigation between rooms by prompting participants to follow a lead participant through user-selectable buttons on participant video elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual coordination is used for navigating between rooms, then participants can communicate and move between rooms, but the process requires additional manual efforts and coordination time
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic follower navigation where the system automatically tracks and moves followers between rooms based on the lead participant's movements, eliminating the need for manual coordination and making the navigation process self-service
Solution Approach 2:
Participants pre-establish follow relationships before navigating between rooms, so that when the lead participant moves to a new room, the follower is automatically directed there without requiring real-time coordination or manual intervention
2Extent of automation
If automatic follower navigation is implemented, then manual coordination efforts are reduced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a lead participant as an intermediary who establishes the navigation path, with followers automatically following this mediator's movements between rooms, simplifying the automation logic by centering it around a single lead participant
Solution Approach 2:
The navigation function is segmented into distinct roles (lead participant and follower), where the lead participant manually navigates and followers automatically follow, dividing the complex navigation task into manageable components
3Adaptability or versatility
If participants manually coordinate to explore rooms together, then they can visit different rooms, but the process requires additional communication and coordination efforts
Solution Approach 1:
The follower navigation system automatically handles the coordination of moving between rooms together, making the exploration process self-service by automatically tracking and directing followers to the lead participant's location without requiring additional communication efforts
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 automatically navigating between rooms within a virtual space for virtual conferencing. The program and method provide for virtual conferencing between plural participants within a first room of plural rooms included within the virtual space; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of a participant video element which corresponds to the participant and which includes a user-selectable button for requesting that the participant follow another participant with respect to navigating between the plural rooms; receive a first indication of a user selection, by a first participant, of the user-selectable button corresponding to a second participant; receive a second indication that the second participant authorizes following the first participant when navigating between the plural rooms; and provide for the second participant to follow the first participant.