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Inventions on using sound and speech in GUI

Voice recognition facilitates a human interaction with the machine. VR may be used to replace the manual task of pushing buttons on a wireless telephone keypad. This is particularly useful when the hands of the user are busy with other activities like driving a car.

However, the VRS system has several limitations. The VRS requires lot of training and customization in order to be effectively used by individual users as each individual falls into different voice patterns. Besides the voice interface is complex and is not as reliable as the keyboard or mouse. This article illustrates some interesting inventions on using sound and voice in Graphical User Interfaces.

Inventions on color selections in Graphical User Interfaces

Color is an important aspect of any graphical user interface. Color is used to make a GUI attractive and meaningful. But, there are difficulties in using colors too. Improper use of color can give adverse effects. Wrong colors at wrong place make the GUI look clumsy and confusing. Besides the aesthetics issues there are many other issues involved with colors.

One of the contradictions relating to usage of color is “The color of the GUI should be customizable to suit user preference. But at the same time it should not be customizable, as that will cause annoyance and confusion to others.”

Another contraction relating to using color is “The user should be displayed all 16 million colors to select the desired color precisely, and the user should not be displayed all 16 million colors as that would create confusion and difficulty in selection.”
This article analyses some inventions selected from US Patent database and illustrates how the inventors have been able to solve various contradictions relating to usage of colors in Graphical User Interface.

Inventions on GUI aesthetics

Aesthetics or “look and feel” is one of the most important features of any graphical user interface. Better aesthetics makes the interface user-friendlier and more popular. Better aesthetics helps the user to understand the meaning of various components and memorize the navigation paths. A better look and feel ultimately makes a GUI more efficient and effective. Various methods are adopted to improve the aesthetics of a GUI, such as, by using colors, using 3D graphics, using pictorial icons, using sound etc.

It is important to provide links to all the features on the desktop or a quick access panel. But too many icons or buttons sometimes creates confusion. Hence it is important to restrict the temptation of putting everything on the first screen or load the rarely used buttons on the toolbar. One should ensure that the aesthetics of a GUI is not compromising with its accessibility and other important features. This article illustrates some inventions made on GUI aesthetics.

About TRIZsite Journal!

The TRIZsite Journal publishes articles, case studies, personal experience, class notes, training materials and other useful papers on TRIZ and related topics.

This section is found to be very much appreciated by the readers. We are getting suggestions to increase the number of articles. We are expecting more articles to come from various authors soon. Our objective is to include more and more articles in this section.

Call for papers and articles!

Articles are invited from writers on various fields to write on various topics and issues. As the site is dedicated to TRIZ, we would prefer your article should be relevant to TRIZ or TRIZ related concepts, such as, traditional TRIZ, modified TRIZ, appliction of TRIZ, evolving Techniques, your experience and case studies on TRIZ etc. However, You can also write on similar related topics like, innovation, creativity, intellectual property, other problem solving techniques, comparision of TRIZ with other branches of study, and so on as you can think.

Not only TRIZ professionals and practitioners, but everybody is welcome including Students, Housewives, Artists, Philosophers to conribute their papers to trizsite.com. We do not differentiate between a senior person in a reputed company and just a novice thinker while accepting papers.

It would be very interesting and valuable for the readers if you could share your practical experience on applying TRIZ, the particular methods you follow, the way you teach it and the way you understand their value.

Guidelines to Authors!

Please send your write-ups via email to umakant(at)trizsite.com in HTML, MS Word or PDF format. Please include a paragraph about yourself alongwith your article.

The editors reserve the right to edit your articles, or send the articles back with specific comments for modification. Selected articles will be published in the site. Please allow some gap of a month or two if there are too many articles in the queue.

Copyright Policy

The TRIZ site holds the right to publish the papers in other books, journals or publications in any form or media. As the articles are published in world wide web the authors by default give right to the readers to read and download the articles for their prsonal use, and not for distribution or commercial use, thus maintaining the copyright of the publications.

However, the authors also have the right to publish the same articles on other magazines, publications but mentioning the earlier publication in TRIZ site.

Editor's Message
We are thankful to all TRIZ lovers whose inspiration and well wishes have made this effort possible. We extend out Thanks to all the authors who have contributed their articles to trizsite.com and thankful to those who have quoted trizsite.com in their websites and publications.

With best wishes to all our readers and writers.

Umakant Mishra
Editor

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