METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC ADAPTABILITY OF CONTENT AND CHANNELS

• US 20080158223A1
• Filed: 01/02/2007
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: George, David A., Jennings, Raymond B., Stys, Malgorzata E., Hitney, Raymond R.
• Application Number:
  US11/618,964
• Publication Number:
  US 20080158223A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A method and system for multi-modal fusion of physical and virtual information channels include a virtual information channel and physical information channel and also provide for tracking virtual events and physical events corresponding to the virtual event and altering delivery of virtual space content via the virtual information channel upon determining the tracked at least one virtual event meets predetermined criteria. These also provide for dynamic adaptability of content and corresponding channels via information sprite clusters presented to a user as well as providing a virtual display and populating each of a plurality of sprites with information content correlated to the user; and presenting on the virtual display at least one information sprite cluster containing a plurality of information sprites. The cluster is presented and rotated on the virtual display to improve user accessibility of the plurality of sprites according to derived, and or detected, user personalization factors.

Claims

1. A method for dynamic adaptability of content and corresponding channels via information sprite clusters presented to a user, the method comprising:

providing a virtual display;

populating each of a plurality of sprites with information content correlated to the user;

presenting on the at least one virtual display at least one information sprite cluster, wherein the information sprite cluster comprises the plurality of sprites; and

rotating the at least one information sprite cluster on the virtual display to improve accessibility of the plurality of sprites.

2. The method as in claim 1 wherein populating each of the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to the user further comprises:

detecting user motion; and

detecting user proximity.

3. The method as in claim 2 further comprising providing the user with navigational cues as a result of detecting user motion and user proximity.

4. The method as in claim 3 wherein providing the user with navigational cues as a result of detecting user motion and user proximity further comprises providing the user navigational sound cues.

5. The method as in claim 3 wherein providing the user with navigational cues as a result of detecting user motion and user proximity further comprises providing the user navigational visual cues.

6. The method as in claim 3 wherein providing the user with navigational cues as a result of detecting user motion and user proximity further comprises providing the user navigational tactile cues.

7. The method as in claim 6 further comprising prioritizing the navigational sound cues, the navigational visual cues, and the navigational tactile cues.

8. The method as in claim 1 further comprising populating each of the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to a default event.

9. The method as in claim 8 wherein populating each of the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to the default event further comprises populating each of the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to a predetermined inactivity timer.

10. The method as in claim 8 wherein populating each of the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to the default event further comprises populating each of the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to no-user-detected state.

15. The multi-modal system as in claim 9, wherein the at least one output device comprises at least one sensory output device.

11. A multi-modal system for displaying via a virtual information channel a plurality of sprites with information content correlated to a user via a physical information channel, the multi-modal system comprising:

a reconfigurable virtual display for displaying the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to the user;

at least one input device connectable to the processor for receiving the physical information;

at least one output device for providing output physical information, connectable to the processor; and

a processor connected to the reconfigurable display wherein the processor is adaptable to tracking physical and corresponding virtual events and reconfiguring the reconfigurable virtual display according to the physical information and altering the output physical information provided by the at least one output device.

12. The multi-modal system as in claim 11, wherein the at least one input device connectable to the processor comprises at least one sensory input device.

13. The multi-modal system as in claim 11, wherein the at least one input device connectable to the processor comprises at least one magnetic input device.

14. The multi-modal system as in claim 11, wherein the at least one input device connectable to the processor comprises at least one optical input device.

16. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method for dynamic adaptability of content and corresponding channels via information sprite clusters presented to a user, the method comprising:

providing a virtual display;

populating each of a plurality of sprites with information content correlated to the user;

wherein populating each of the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to the user further comprises;

detecting user motion;

detecting user proximity;

presenting on the at least one virtual display at least one information sprite cluster, wherein the information sprite cluster comprises the plurality of sprites;

rotating the at least one information sprite cluster on the virtual display to improve accessibility of the plurality of sprites;

providing the user with prioritized navigational cues as a result of detecting user motion and user proximity, wherein providing the user with navigational cues further comprises providing the user with navigational cues selected from the group consisting of

providing audio guidance via the at least one physical information channel,

providing visual guidance via the at least one physical information channel, and

providing tactile guidance via the at least one physical information channel; and

populating each of the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to a default event;

wherein populating each of the plurality of sprites with information content correlated to the default event further comprises selecting the default event from the group consisting of

determining an expiration of a predetermined inactivity timer, and

determining a no-user-detected state.