TAILORED OPERATING SYSTEM LEARNING EXPERIENCE

• US 20130325758A1
• Filed: 07/31/2012
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Velasco, Maverick J., McGuire, Christopher J., Alphin, Thomas Henry III
• Application Number:
  US13/563,351
• Publication Number:
  US 20130325758A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0053 Computers, e.g. programming

Abstract

This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling a tailored operating system learning experience. The techniques can tailor a learning experience to a user'"'"'s computing device or a user'"'"'s specifications. This tailoring to the user'"'"'s computing device may include an interactive demonstration showing a new feature controlled through a mouse if the user'"'"'s computing device has a mouse, or a touchscreen if the user'"'"'s computing device has a touchscreen, for example. Further, this tailoring may include showing a new feature according to a user'"'"'s specifications, such as describing a feature using a large font or with a large, bright mouse-pointer if the user indicated that he or she is visually impaired.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a characteristic of a computing device, the computing device associated with an operating system (OS), the characteristic affecting use of an OS gesture;

receiving a specification of an OS environment affecting an appearance or operation of the OS gesture;

tailoring an OS learning experience demonstrating the OS gesture to the characteristic and the specification; and

presenting the tailored OS learning experience effective to demonstrate the use of the OS gesture according to the characteristic of the computing device and with the appearance or operation of the specification.

2. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, wherein the characteristic of the computing device is a hardware characteristic, the hardware characteristic including a touch-sensitive display or a physical keyboard, and tailoring the OS learning experience tailors the OS learning experience effective to demonstrate the OS gesture entered through the touch-sensitive display or the physical keyboard, respectively.

3. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, wherein the specification of the OS environment affects the appearance of the OS gesture, the specification including a color or a pointer type or size, and tailoring the OS learning experience tailors a pointer associated with the gesture to the color, the pointer type, or the pointer size.

4. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, wherein the specification of the OS environment affects the operation of the OS gesture, the specification including a left-to-right orientation or a right-to-left orientation, and tailoring the OS learning experience tailors the OS gesture to the left-to-right orientation or the right-to-left orientation, respectively.

5. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, wherein the OS gesture is a sizing gesture for an immersive environment enabled by the OS, an edge gesture, or a corner gesture.

6. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1, wherein the tailored OS learning experience enables interactions to alter, in real time, the presentation of the OS learning experience.

7. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising computer-readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, perform operations comprising:

determining, based on a characteristic of a computing device, one or more subsets associated with the characteristic from operating system (OS) learning-experience subsets associated with a feature;

customizing the determined subsets based on a specification of an OS environment; and

creating an OS learning experience having the customized, determined subsets, the OS learning experience enabling demonstration of the feature according to the characteristic and the specification.

8. A computer-readable storage media according to claim 7, wherein the instructions, when executed, create the OS learning experience enabling interaction with the feature during presentation of the OS learning experience.

9. A computer-readable storage media according to claim 8, wherein the interaction is performed in conjunction with an operating system.

10. A computer-readable storage media according to claim 7, wherein the characteristic is a touch-sensitive display of the computing device and one of the customized, determined subsets is associated with a gesture feature and enables demonstration of a gesture through use of the touch-sensitive display.

11. A computer-readable storage media according to claim 7, wherein the specification includes a color, font size, font type, or pointer characteristic, and customizing customizes the determined subset to the specification by altering the determined subset to show the color, the font size, the font type, or the pointer characteristic.

12. A computer-implemented method comprising:

retrieving characteristics of a computing device, the computing device associated with an operating system (OS);

responsive to an initial login event, presenting an OS setup experience, the OS setup experience enabling selection of specifications to customize an OS environment for the OS;

receiving selected specifications customizing the OS environment;

creating an OS learning experience tailored to the characteristics of the computing device and the selected specifications; and

presenting the tailored OS learning experience.

13. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 12, wherein the tailored OS learning experience includes abstractions, the abstractions reducing a complexity of an actual representation of the OS.

14. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 12, wherein the tailored OS learning experience enables interactions to alter, in real time, the presentation of the tailored OS learning experience.

15. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 12, further comprising creating the OS setup experience, the OS setup experience tailored to the characteristics of the computing device.

16. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 12, wherein the characteristic of the computing device is a hardware characteristic, the hardware characteristic including a touch-sensitive display or a physical keyboard, and creating the OS learning experience tailors the OS learning experience to the touch-sensitive display or the physical keyboard, respectively.

17. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 12, wherein the selected specifications include one or more of a color, font type, font size, or language and creating the OS learning experience tailors the OS learning experience to include text associated thereof with the color, font type, font size, or language, respectively.

18. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 12, wherein the initial login event is a first boot of the OS or an entity'"'"'s first login to the computing device.

19. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 12, wherein the tailored OS learning experience demonstrates use of a gesture usable to interact with or manage the OS.

20. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 12, further comprising enabling interaction with the tailored OS learning experience and, responsive to the interaction, tailoring presentation of the tailored OS learning experience to the interaction.