Watch Navigation Interface for Faster Location Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing navigational user interfaces on electronic devices are cumbersome and inefficient, requiring multiple key presses and consuming excessive user time and device energy, particularly in battery-operated devices.
Innovation Solution
Concurrently display indications of historic locations, current location, and direction on a device's display without calculating a route, adjusting display modes based on user input, and managing navigational complications to reduce cognitive burden and conserve power.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional navigational user interfaces are used with multiple key presses, then comprehensive navigational information can be displayed, but user time and device energy consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates and stores historic locations and route information before the user needs navigation. The display proactively shows historic locations and calculated routes without requiring the user to initiate complex search sequences, thereby reducing user interaction time while maintaining information completeness
Solution Approach 2:
The display interface integrates multiple navigational functions (showing historic locations, current position, calculated routes, and directional information) into a single unified view. This multi-functional display eliminates the need for multiple separate interface interactions, reducing both user time and energy consumption while providing comprehensive navigational information
2Adaptability or versatility
If complex user interfaces with multiple key presses are used, then detailed navigational options are accessible, but device energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-computes navigation routes and historic locations and stores them in memory before user interaction. When navigation is needed, the system retrieves pre-calculated information rather than performing real-time complex calculations through multiple user inputs, significantly reducing device energy consumption while maintaining versatile navigational options
Solution Approach 2:
The interface automatically provides relevant navigational information based on the device's current state and historic data without requiring extensive user input. The system self-adapts to display appropriate navigational options based on pre-stored information, reducing the energy consumption associated with processing and displaying detailed options upon user request
3Loss of information
If traditional navigational interfaces are used, then comprehensive location data can be processed, but user cognitive burden increases
Solution Approach 1:
The interface segments location information into distinct visual elements: historic locations are displayed as separate markers, current position is indicated by a distinct icon, and calculated routes are shown as visual paths. This segmentation organizes complex location data into easily processable visual components, reducing user cognitive burden while maintaining data completeness
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates visual representations (copies) of geographic relationships on the display screen that mirror the actual spatial relationships between locations. By displaying historic locations, current position, and routes as visual copies of the real-world geographic data, the interface makes complex location information intuitively understandable without requiring users to process raw data manually
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AI summary
The present disclosure generally relates to navigational user interfaces, including displaying indications of locations, transitioning from displaying a watch face user interface in a first mode to displaying the watch face user interface in a second mode, displaying a navigational complication for an application, and displaying different views of indications of locations.