ANIMATED PICKER FOR SLIDER BARS AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL PICKERS

• US 20080091635A1
• Filed: 10/16/2006
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jones, Michael H., James, Basonge M., Montavo-Huhn, Orlando C.
• Application Number:
  US11/549,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20080091635A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/473
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation

Abstract

A computer program product for facilitating an expression of emotion in an application, is provided and calls for: providing a field for expressing a range of emotions; providing a location indicator for setting a location within the field; associating a unique expression of emotion with each location for the location indicator; and accepting a user input for changing a location of the location indicator to change the unique expression according to the emotion of the user.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising machine readable instructions stored on machine readable media, the product for facilitating an expression of emotion in an application, the instructions for implementing a method comprising:

providing a field for expressing a range of emotions;

providing a location indicator for setting a location within the field;

associating a unique expression of emotion with each location for the location indicator; and

accepting a user input for changing a location of the location indicator to change the unique expression according to the emotion of the user.

2. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the field comprises a one dimensional field.

3. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the field comprises a two dimensional field.

4. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the location indicator comprises an emoticon.

5. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the field comprises a scroll bar.

6. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the application comprises an application for at least one of a product satisfaction survey, a service satisfaction survey, an emotional state survey, and a pain survey.

7. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the unique expression is predetermined for each location.

8. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the unique expression is generated for each location.

9. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the providing a location indicator comprises providing an overlay to an application generated location indicator.

10. The computer program product as in claim 1 as an add-in to the application.

11. A computer program add-in product comprising machine readable instructions stored on machine readable media, the product for facilitating an expression of emotion in an application for at least one of a product satisfaction survey, a service satisfaction survey, an emotional state survey, and a pain survey, the instructions for implementing a method comprising:

providing at least one of a one dimensional and a two dimensional field for expressing a range of emotions;

providing an emoticon as a location indicator for setting a location within the field;

associating one of a predetermined unique expression of emotion and a generated unique expression of emotion with each location for the location indicator; and

accepting a user input for changing a location of the location indicator to change the unique expression according to the emotion of the user.