JP2006059062A - Web system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Web system which can be easily used even by a senior person or beginner who is not familiar with the operation of a personal computer. <P>SOLUTION: This Web system is provided with: a software keyboard 1; a mail system 2; a Web browser 3; and an integrated interface 4 for controlling them. The integrated interface 4 is provided with: an input control means 4a for controlling a signal from the software keyboard; an IME control means 4b for controlling the conversion of language; a Web analyzing means 4c for analyzing a Web page; and a browser control means 4d for controlling a Web browser. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a Web system for elderly people and beginners who are not used to operating a personal computer.

  In recent years, information technology has spread rapidly with personal computers and the Internet as the core. Along with this, various services utilizing information technology are provided by companies, public institutions and governments. With the development of information technology centered on personal computers and the Internet, people can quickly obtain the information they need, and the convenience of people's lives has been dramatically improved.

  However, since there is a large disparity in information technology utilization ability depending on age, physical characteristics, etc., not all people can enjoy the convenience of information technology development equally. For this reason, people such as elderly people who cannot use computers are left behind in the information society, creating a large difference (so-called digital divide) between those that can use information technology and those that cannot use it. It has become.

Conventionally, Web systems for eliminating such digital divide have been proposed. For example, Non-Patent Document 1 proposes a mail system for middle-aged and elderly people.
IBM Japan: Easy web walk http://www-6.ibm.com/jp/accessibility/soft/rakuraku.html

  However, most of them focus on increasing the size of buttons and characters, and do not facilitate the operation itself. The inventors conducted a questionnaire survey on the use of personal computers for middle-aged and elderly people in order to examine the current state of the digital divide of middle-aged and elderly people. As a result, it became clear that middle-aged and elderly people use not only small buttons and characters but also a large proportion of input operation complexity when they use personal computers. That is, the keyboard normally used for this input operation has 100 or more operation buttons, and it is not easy for middle-aged and elderly people to use it.

Software keyboards for Japanese input have been developed for those who are not good at operating keyboards used for such input operations (see Non-Patent Documents 2 and 3).
Pirica Lab Trail Soft Keyboardhttp: //ww3.tiki.ne.jp/~k_nakada/ Allied Brains, Inc .: Petehttp: //at.a-brain.com/PeteHP7index.html

  However, these software keyboards for Japanese input must be activated independently from the Web browser. For this reason, start-up becomes complicated, and even the start-up becomes difficult for an elderly person and a beginner who are unfamiliar with a personal computer. Further, when the display screen of the web browser and the display screen of the software keyboard overlap, the display screen of the software keyboard must be moved, and the operation becomes complicated and difficult.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described conventional situation, and it should be solved to provide a Web system that can be easily used even by an elderly person or a beginner who is not used to operating a personal computer. It is an issue.

  The Web system of the present invention includes a Web browser for browsing and transmitting Internet information, and an input interface for inputting data necessary for using the Web browser. Includes a language conversion control means for controlling language conversion and an input control means for controlling the software keyboard in a Web system which is a software keyboard displayed on a display screen and subjected to an input operation. A display screen of the software keyboard by activating the integrated interface by providing an integrated interface comprising a Web analyzing means for analyzing the Web page and a browser control means for controlling the Web browser And display of the Web browser Wherein the surface and is possible to use independently at the same time.

  In the Web system of the present invention, a software keyboard that is displayed on a computer display screen and performs an input operation is used as an input interface. As a result, the user can operate while looking at the screen of the software keyboard on the same screen while looking at the display screen of the Web browser. Is done. Moreover, in the Web system of the present invention, it is possible to use the software keyboard display screen and the Web browser display screen independently and simultaneously by simply activating the integrated interface. That is, this integrated interface interpolates individual functions that normally exist as independent applications into one application. Specifically, a language conversion control means for controlling language conversion, an input control means for controlling a software keyboard, a web analysis means for analyzing a web page, and a web browser are controlled. Browser control means, and each means can be linked with each other to easily perform computer input operations and Web browsing. Here, the language conversion control means for controlling the language conversion means that various languages such as IMS of Windows (registered trademark) and IM of Macintosh (registered trademark) can be used without using a special keyboard. Means for enabling input. For this reason, by activating this integrated interface, both the Web browser and the software keyboard can be used, and the software startup operation becomes extremely simple. In addition, unlike the conventional Web system using a software keyboard, in order to prevent the display screen of the Web browser and the screen of the software keyboard from overlapping, there is no need to move the screen. Can be used to enter the necessary data.

  Therefore, according to the Web system of the present invention, even an elderly person or a beginner who is not used to operating a personal computer can easily use the system.

  When a mail system for sending and receiving mail is incorporated in the Web system of the present invention, a series of operations for sending and receiving mail can be guided on the display screen for each process. For example, on the startup display screen, an e-mail or internet selection screen is displayed, and if you select an e-mail, the next display screen displays a selection screen for whether to read e-mail or send e-mail. It is like this. This makes it possible to perform complicated data entry such as address designation, title, and carbon copy designation very easily as in the conventional mail system. Even so, the mail system can be easily used.

  Further, the mail system can be a Web mail system that transmits and receives mail on the Web. In this case, it is not necessary to introduce a mail system for each terminal, and the mail system can be centrally managed at one place. This facilitates maintenance such as mail system management and version upgrade. In particular, when a public terminal is used, there is no need to set personal information of the user for each terminal, which is preferable.

  Hereinafter, a Web system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. This Web system was developed in the Nagoya City computerization promotion project (business name “Easy PC e-Namo-kun Development Project”) for elderly people and beginners who are not used to operating PCs. This is a Web system for performing Internet search and mail transmission / reception.

  As shown in FIG. 1, this Web system includes a software keyboard 1, a mail system 2, and a Web browser 3, and further includes an integrated interface 4 for controlling them. The software keyboard 1, the web browser 3, and the integrated interface 4 are mounted on a plurality of personal computer terminals 11, 12, 13,... 1n shown in FIG. It is mounted on the management server 20 connected via the Internet.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the integrated interface 4 analyzes an input control means 4a for controlling signals from the software keyboard 1, an IME control means 4b for controlling language conversion, and a web page. Web analysis means 4c for controlling the browser and browser control means 4d for controlling the Web browser are provided. The IME control unit 4b is a language conversion control unit. The integrated interface 4 is realized by a program using Win32API on a Microsoft Windows (registered trademark) platform. The software keyboard 1 is implemented by encapsulating IME attached to Windows (registered trademark), and the Web analysis means 4c and browser control means 4d are implemented by encapsulating WWW Browser Component. ing.

  The mail system 2 uses IMAP for reception and SMTP for transmission, so that mail can be transmitted and received on the Web. Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the mail system 2 is provided with an authentication system 5 using a PHP session function separately from the Web browser 3 (see FIG. 1). As a result, the design and operability of the authentication screen can be freely designed without depending on the Web browser. In addition, as an attack countermeasure that exploits cross-site script, Java (registered trademark) Script, VBScript, etc., the user input data script is excluded by using the htmlspecialchars function to eliminate character string tags and special characters. Furthermore, data tampering is prevented by rechecking the sent data and using a PHP session management function. Further, SSL communication is adopted as a countermeasure against session ID theft.

  In the Web system of the embodiment configured as described above, when the personal computer terminals 11 to 1n shown in FIG. 2 are started up, a screen 101 for user authentication shown in FIG. 4 is displayed. On this screen 101, an input screen 101a for inputting the name and password of the user and the software keyboard 1 are displayed at the same time. These displays can be used independently, and the images do not overlap. Further, the software keyboard 1 has character buttons in a scroll format, and the number of appearance buttons is reduced. There are only three command buttons: character conversion, decision, and input, which are extremely simple. From these things, the disgust to the elderly's keyboard can be relieved considerably.

  The user uses the software keyboard 1 to input the name and password from the input field 1a, and then clicks “Next” to display the screen 102 shown in FIG. On the screen 102, mail and Internet selection buttons are displayed. Here, by clicking the “mail” button, a screen 103 shown in FIG. 6 is displayed. The screen 103 displays three selection buttons “write letter”, “letter received”, and “return”, and the number of newly arrived letters.

  When “write a letter” is clicked on the screen 103, a screen 104 for inputting the mail address shown in FIG. 7 is displayed. Here, by inputting the address in the input field 1a of the software keyboard 1 and clicking the “OK” button, a screen 105 for confirming the content of the mail to be sent is displayed as shown in FIG. Further, by clicking the “OK” button on this display screen, a screen 106 for confirming the contents of the mail shown in FIG. Here, after finally confirming the contents of the mail, clicking the “Send” button completes the transmission of the mail.

  In addition, when viewing a newly received mail, clicking “Newly arrived letter” from the three selection buttons displayed on the screen 103 shown in FIG. The sender and date of the received mail are displayed on the screen 107. Further, by clicking on the display portion of the sender on the screen 107, the contents of the mail can be confirmed as shown on the screen 108.

  Further, when it is desired to list mails transmitted in the past, the “letter received” is clicked from the three selection buttons displayed on the screen 103 shown in FIG. By this operation, as shown in the screen 109 in FIG. 12, a button for selecting “in order of date” or “in order of time” is displayed. Here, if “by date” is selected, the mail sender and date are displayed on the screen 110 in date order, as shown in FIG. If you want to see the contents, click on the mail sender. In addition, when “Aiueo order” is selected, as shown in the screen 111 of FIG. 14, the sender and date of the mail are displayed in the aiue order. If you want to see the contents, click on the mail sender.

  As described above, in this Web system, operations for sending mail are guided one after another, so even if the user is unfamiliar with a personal computer such as an elderly person, mail can be easily sent. . Also, both the mail content and the software keyboard 1 are displayed on the same display screen, and they do not overlap with each other. Necessary data can be input using the wear keyboard 1. Further, since this Web system is a Web mail system that transmits and receives mail on the Web, it is necessary to introduce a mail system for each personal computer terminal 11, 12, 13,... Therefore, the mail system 2 can be collectively managed by the management server 20. This facilitates maintenance such as mail system management and version upgrade.

  When companies, public institutions, governments, etc. provide various services using information technology, the Web system of the present invention can be used even by elderly people and beginners who are not used to operating personal computers. It becomes easy.

It is a block diagram of the Web system of an embodiment. It is a schematic diagram of the Web system of an embodiment. It is a figure which shows the transmission / reception method of the mail system which concerns on the web system of embodiment. It is the screen for authentication displayed on the personal computer terminal which concerns on the Web system of embodiment. It is the screen for the purpose selection displayed on the personal computer terminal which concerns on the Web system of embodiment. It is the screen for the purpose selection displayed on the personal computer terminal which concerns on the Web system of embodiment. It is the screen for the mail address input displayed on the personal computer terminal which concerns on the Web system of embodiment. It is a screen for inputting the mail text displayed on the personal computer terminal which concerns on the Web system of embodiment. It is a screen for confirmation of the inputted mail text displayed on the personal computer terminal concerning the Web system of an embodiment. It is a screen which displays the list of the new mail displayed on the personal computer terminal concerning the Web system of an embodiment. It is a screen which displays the contents of the new mail displayed on the personal computer terminal concerning the Web system of an embodiment. It is a screen for selecting the list method displayed on the personal computer terminal which concerns on the Web system of embodiment. It is a screen which displays the list of mail senders displayed on the personal computer terminal according to the Web system of the embodiment. It is a screen which displays the list of mail senders displayed on the personal computer terminal according to the Web system of the embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

3. Web browser 1. Software keyboard (input interface)
4a ... IME control means (language conversion control means)
4b: Input control means 4c: Web analysis means 4d: Browser control means

Claims (3)

A web browser for browsing and transmitting Internet information and an input interface for inputting data necessary for using the web browser are provided. The input interface is displayed on a display screen. In a Web system that is a software keyboard that is input and performed,
Language conversion control means for controlling language conversion, input control means for controlling the software keyboard, Web analysis means for analyzing a Web page, and browser control for controlling the Web browser By providing the integrated interface comprising means, the software keyboard display screen and the web browser display screen can be used independently and simultaneously by activating the integrated interface. A Web system characterized by this.   A mail system for sending and receiving mail is provided, and the mail system is characterized in that a series of operations for sending and receiving the mail are guided on a display screen for each process. The Web system according to claim 1.   3. The Web system according to claim 2, wherein the mail system is a Web mail system that transmits and receives mail on the Web.

Images