DYNAMICALLY ADAPTING VISUALIZATIONS

• US 20090327883A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Chronister, Benjamin, Lee, Joshua Wyndham, Robertson, George G., Ruble, Brian Scott, Schormann, Christian Bernd, Givens, Barry James, Nielsen, Jakob Peter, McCoy, Nathan Paul, Weber, Jason Joseph, Casey, Thomas Michael, Morein, William G.
• Application Number:
  US12/163,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327883A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor

Abstract

An adaptive visualization system is provided. The system includes a processing component that receives visualization configurations to determine a suitable visualization for a user. A visualization component automatically adapts a visualization output based in part on the visualization configurations. The visualization configurations can include user context inputs, user profile inputs, device characteristic inputs, or background data inputs, for example.

Claims

1. An adaptive visualization system, comprising:

a processing component that receives visualization configurations to determine a suitable visualization for a user; and

a visualization component to automatically adapt a visualization output based in part on the visualization inputs.

2. The system of claim 1, the visualization configurations further comprising user context inputs, user profile inputs, device characteristic inputs, or background data inputs.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a contextual data component to enable capture of context data and to determine a user'"'"'s goals or preferences.

4. The system of claim 3, the contextual data component captures audio streams, video streams, e-mails, queries, biometric data, contextual clues, and project related data.

5. The system of claim 4, the contextual data component includes learning components, profile components, and statistical processing components to process contextual data.

6. The system of claim 4, the profile component allows users to specify physical capabilities or disabilities, where visualizations are dynamically adjusted in view of the capabilities or disabilities.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising a synchronization component to associate captured data with different portions of a visualization.

8. The system of claim 6, the profile component specifies a user'"'"'s disability as color blindness or dyslexia.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a learning component to determine a data context for a prospective visualization.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a component that stores potential visualizations that are capable of being displayed with a future technology.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a component determine a visualization based upon a service flow process.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a component that augments a background of a prospective visualization according to the background of a present environment.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising an adaptive detail component that can sense a viewing angle of location of a user and adapt a visualization in view of the viewing angle or location.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a scaling and rendering component to adjust a visualization according to the size of a detected display.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising an inference component to automatically adjust the granularity of a display.

16. A visualization method, comprising:

analyzing one or more visualization inputs, the inputs including at least two of a context input, a user profile input, a background data input, and a device data input;

determining a suitable visualization from the visualization inputs;

automatically adapting a present visualization in view of the determined suitable visualization; and

automatically transitioning between the present visualization and the determined suitable visualization.

17. The method of claim 16, the visualization inputs include user context inputs, user profile inputs, device characteristic inputs, or background data inputs.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising automatically inferring a user'"'"'s context from the visualization inputs.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising inferring a user'"'"'s ability or disability from the visualization inputs.

20. A visualization system, comprising:

means for monitoring visualization input data over time;

means for adapting at least one visualization from the data; and

means for automatically generating the visualization.