Method and system for choosing an item out of a list appearing on a screen
First Claim
1. A method of choosing an item by a user out of a long list (1) of items appearing on a screen (2) displaying said list, wherein the user scrolls through said list by moving a cursor along said list, said cursor designating a focused item and moving automatically from said focused item to a following one at an auto-repeat rate defining an auto-repeat period, if an action on a next item key (6, 7) by the user is maintained, characterised in that the auto-repeat rate is periodically slowed down on predetermined items, termed sticky items, in order to give additional time to the user to absorb visual feed back on said sticky items, and each item is pointed out during a predetermined period of time, termed the latency period, different from the auto-repeat period.
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a system and a method of choosing an item by a user out of a long list (1) of items appearing on a screen (2) displaying said list, wherein the user scrolls through said list by moving a cursor along said list, said cursor designating a focused item and moving automatically from said focused item to a following one at an auto-repeat rate defining an auto-repeat period, if an action on a next item key by the user is maintained. The auto-repeat rate is periodically slowed down on predetermined items, termed sticky items, in order to give additional time to the user to absorb visual feedback on said sticky items.
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- 1. A method of choosing an item by a user out of a long list (1) of items appearing on a screen (2) displaying said list, wherein the user scrolls through said list by moving a cursor along said list, said cursor designating a focused item and moving automatically from said focused item to a following one at an auto-repeat rate defining an auto-repeat period, if an action on a next item key (6, 7) by the user is maintained, characterised in that the auto-repeat rate is periodically slowed down on predetermined items, termed sticky items, in order to give additional time to the user to absorb visual feed back on said sticky items, and each item is pointed out during a predetermined period of time, termed the latency period, different from the auto-repeat period.
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8. An electronic data processing system for choosing an item by a user out of a long list (1) of items appearing on a screen (2) displaying said list, wherein said system comprises
scrolling means (3) for scrolling through said list including a cursor arranged to be moved along said list, highlighting means for highlighting a focused item pointed by said cursor, automatic moving means (3) for automatically moving said cursor from said focused item to a following one at an auto-repeat rate defining an auto-repeat period, and maintaining means (6, 7, 3) for maintaining the scrolling by the user, characterised in that it further includes slowing means (3) for slowing down the auto-repeat rate periodically on predetermined items, termed sticky items, in order to give additional time to the user to absorb visual feedback on said sticky items, wherein in that said highlighting means comprises timing means to highlight any first item on which it is focalised with the cursor, during a predetermined period of time, termed the latency period, different from the auto-repeat period.
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