JP2015069423A - Display control device, method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide representation means of a pop-up notification window which has a noticeable display mode for giving a user sensibility of receiving information according to weight of notification information to be represented to a user using physiologic and psychological characteristics of human, and information about design point.SOLUTION: The display control device comprises: a data acquisition part 111 for acquiring weight of notification information and the notification information; a motion selection part 112 for selecting motion according to the weight; and a display control part 113 for controlling the display part so that a window including the notification information is displayed by pop-up display with the motion.

Description

  The present invention relates to a display control device, a display control method, and a program.

  In recent years, in a computer system, a technique for displaying a pop-up notification window has been adopted as a technique for notifying a user of notification information. There are various types of notification information. For example, examples of the notification information include information indicating the occurrence of various events in system software including an operating system and application software operating on the system software.

  Examples of various events include system and software status changes, presence of system and software update programs, and reception of contact information from others in application software (eg, softphone, e-mail, instant messenger, etc.).

JP 2009-199152 A

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  Here, the importance of the notification information as described above is not necessarily uniform, and the importance may vary depending on the type of the notification information. For example, rather than notification information indicating that “the computer speaker output is set to OFF”, notification information indicating that “a program error has occurred that may interfere with the continued operation of the computer system”. Is considered to be more important to the user. In addition, it is considered that the “emergency request mail from the supervisor regarding the occurrence of a business trouble and its response” is more important for the user than the “advertisement mail of uninterested product”. Furthermore, the degree of urgency required for the response action of the user who has received the notification information is also considered to be one of the factors related to the importance of the notification information.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to use the physiological and psychological characteristics of humans in accordance with the importance of notification information presented to the user. Therefore, it is intended to provide a pop-up notification window presentation means and a specific design guideline information that are easy to notice and have a display state that allows the user to obtain a sense of receiving information.

  In order to solve the above problem, according to an aspect of the present invention, a data acquisition unit that acquires notification information and an importance level of the notification information, and a movement according to the importance level is selected from a plurality of movements There is provided a display control device comprising: a motion selection unit that performs a display, and a display control unit that controls the display unit so that a window including the notification information is popped up with the motion.

  An importance may be associated with each of the plurality of movements, and the movement selection unit may select a movement associated with the importance of the notification information from the plurality of movements.

  The display control device may include an importance level changing unit that changes at least a part of the importance level associated with each of the plurality of movements.

  The importance level changing unit may change the importance level associated with each of the plurality of movements when at least one of the movement deletion, addition, and exchange is performed.

  The importance level changing unit may change the importance level while maintaining the vertical relationship of the importance levels of movements other than the change target.

  The display control unit may add, to the window, a display indicating that the type of importance is 1 level or less when the type of importance associated with the notification information is 1 level or less.

  The display control unit is configured to display the window indicating the importance when the type of importance associated with the notification information exceeds the number of movements or when the importance is less than the number of movements. May be added.

  The plurality of movements may include at least a movement that enlarges the window.

  The plurality of movements may include a movement in which at least the window is horizontally translated.

  The plurality of movements may include at least a movement that reduces the transparency of the window.

  Further, according to an aspect of the present invention, the step of acquiring the notification information and the importance level of the notification information, the step of selecting a movement according to the importance level from a plurality of movements, and the notification information A display control method comprising: controlling a display unit so that a window including the window is popped up with the movement.

  Further, according to an aspect of the present invention, the computer includes a data acquisition unit that acquires the notification information and the importance of the notification information, and a motion selection that selects a motion according to the importance from a plurality of motions. And a display control unit that controls the display unit so that a window including the notification information is popped up with the movement is provided.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to obtain a sense of receiving information easily by using human physiological characteristics and psychological characteristics according to the importance of the notification information presented to the user. It is possible to provide a pop-up notification window presentation means that takes a display mode and information on a specific design guideline.

It is a figure which shows the example of the screen displayed on the display part which concerns on this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the scenery photograph of the implemented evaluation experiment. It is a graph of the evaluation result of the 1st item "easiness to notice" of subjective evaluation. It is a graph of the evaluation result of the 2nd item "information reception feeling" of subjective evaluation. It is a block diagram which shows the function structural example of the display control apparatus which concerns on this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the detailed structure of a control part. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the relevant information which the importance of notification information and the motion which shows the display mode of a pop-up notification window are linked | related. It is a figure which shows a normal pop-up notification window. It is a figure which shows the pop-up notification window added to the title column that the kind of importance is 1 step or less. It is a figure which shows the pop-up notification window added to the text column that the kind of importance is 1 step or less. It is a figure which shows the pop-up notification window added as a predetermined color that the kind of importance is 1 step or less. It is a figure which shows the example of the time change of the display of the pop-up notification window which concerns on this embodiment. It is a figure (enlargement conditions) explaining the display method of a pop-up notification window. It is a figure (horizontal conditions) explaining the display method of a pop-up notification window. It is a figure (reduction conditions) explaining the display method of a pop-up notification window. It is a figure (vertical conditions) explaining the display method of a pop-up notification window. It is a figure (blinking condition) explaining the display method of a pop-up notification window. It is a figure explaining the display method of a pop-up notification window (constant conditions). It is a figure explaining the display method of a pop-up notification window (see-through condition). It is a figure which showed the example of the presentation procedure of the pop-up notification window which has a small display apparatus and is accompanied by the movement (horizontal condition) of horizontal translation. It is a flowchart which shows the operation example of the display control apparatus which concerns on this embodiment.

  Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the present specification and drawings, components having substantially the same functional configuration are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

  In the present specification and drawings, a plurality of constituent elements having substantially the same functional configuration may be distinguished by attaching different alphabets or numbers after the same reference numeral. However, when it is not necessary to particularly distinguish each of a plurality of constituent elements having substantially the same functional configuration, only the same reference numerals are given.

  In recent years, in a computer system, a technique for displaying a pop-up notification window has been adopted as a technique for notifying a user of notification information. There are various types of notification information. For example, examples of the notification information include information indicating the occurrence of various events in system software including an operating system and application software operating on the system software.

  Examples of various events include system and software status changes, presence of system and software update programs, and reception of contact information from others in application software (eg, softphone, e-mail, instant messenger, etc.).

  Here, the importance of the notification information as described above is not necessarily uniform, and the importance may vary depending on the type of the notification information. For example, rather than notification information indicating that “the computer speaker output is set to OFF”, notification information indicating that “a program error has occurred that may interfere with the continued operation of the computer system”. Is considered to be more important to the user. In addition, it is considered that the “emergency request mail from the supervisor regarding the occurrence of a business trouble and its response” is more important for the user than the “advertisement mail of uninterested product”. Furthermore, the degree of urgency required for the response action of the user who has received the notification information is also considered to be one of the factors related to the importance of the notification information.

  Non-Patent Document 1 introduces a mail client system having a “priority tray” function that automatically selects mail that is estimated to be important to the user from a group of received e-mails. However, Non-Patent Document 1 does not introduce software having a function of giving a difference in display mode according to importance to a pop-up notification window for presenting notification information to a user.

  Patent Document 1 discloses an earthquake notification mail bulletin system that allows a user of a mobile terminal to confirm an earthquake notification mail reliably and quickly. In Patent Document 1, in order to make it easy for the user to distinguish between earthquake notification mail and normal mail having high importance, a function for blinking the earthquake notification mail, a function for displaying it with a specific display color, and the like are given. Yes.

  However, it does not disclose what specifications the specific blinking display or unique display color has, and whether or not the effect of actually making it easier to notice an incoming call has been confirmed. Therefore, it is considered that it is difficult to design a specific notification means with which the effectiveness is guaranteed only by browsing Patent Document 1.

  In particular, in Patent Document 1, in order to provide importance for each of the earthquake notification mail and the normal mail, it is assumed to correspond to notification information of two levels of importance. However, since the details of the design guideline for dealing with the notification information of three or more levels of importance and the information indicating the effect on the design are not disclosed, the level of importance corresponds to the notification information of three or more levels. Difficulties can arise when the need arises.

  In this specification, a pop-up that uses a human's physiological and psychological characteristics and is easily noticeable and has a display mode that gives a sense of receiving information according to the importance of the notification information presented to the user. We propose the notification window presentation means and specific design guidelines. In addition, in this specification, a subject evaluation experiment is performed assuming a user in order to design for handling notification information with three or more levels of importance, and to verify and confirm the effect on the design. Here are the results.

  According to the present embodiment, notification information having at least two importance levels can be notified to the user by an easily noticeable presentation method using human characteristics according to the importance level. Further, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to provide a user of a computer system with an information usage environment that is more convenient than before.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed on the display unit according to the present embodiment. Referring to FIG. 1, a screen 200 is shown. Referring to screen 200, notepad application software is executed on an operating system having a graphical user interface, and window 203 of the notepad application software is displayed. Note that the application software to be executed may not be the notepad application software.

  Further, when the user is inputting characters while browsing the window 203 of the memo pad application software, the pop-up notification window 204 is displayed on the screen 200. In addition, various objects (for example, a task bar 201, an icon 202, etc.) for controlling and managing the window display of the running software are displayed on the screen 200. The position of the pop-up notification window 204 on the screen 200 is not particularly limited, but in the following, a case where the pop-up notification window 204 is displayed on the “lower right” of the screen 204 that is often used as the position of the pop-up notification window 204 will be described. Mainly explained.

  In this embodiment, the pop-up notification window 204 presents notification information having at least two levels of importance to the user in a display mode corresponding to the level of importance. Each display mode can be realized by dynamic expression (animation). For example, the dynamic expression can be realized by a continuous change in the position, shape, display density, etc. of the pop-up notification window 204. In the present embodiment, the reason why dynamic expression is adopted as an element for discriminating a plurality of types of pop-up notification windows is that the display element “movement” is a presentation technique adapted to human physiological characteristics, Details are described below.

  Generally, a pop-up notification window is displayed by an event originating from a change in the state of a computer system or data reception from another person, and is not displayed in response to a user's direct system operation. While the user is working on a computer system or application software, a window object that is unexpectedly displayed in a pop-up on the screen and notified is a pop-up notification window.

  In the example shown in FIG. 1, it is considered that the user is working using the memo pad application software, and the memo pad application software window 203 is captured in the central view of the user. At this time, if the pop-up notification window 204 is unexpectedly displayed at the lower right end of the screen 200, the window 203 of the notepad application software is contained in the central visual field having a viewing angle of about several degrees as described above. Therefore, the pop-up notification window 204 is necessarily visually recognized in the area of the peripheral visual field of the user.

  Here, as a physiological characteristic of the human peripheral visual field, Non-Patent Document 2 states that “the peripheral part of the retina has a function that is relatively or absolutely superior to the central part with respect to the perception of motion stimulation”. This has been clarified by subject evaluation experiments. From the contents described here, when presenting a visual object in the peripheral visual field of the user, it is possible to use a display element called “movement” to indicate the appearance of a visual object (here, a pop-up notification). It can be said that this is an effective technique for notifying the user of (window display).

  However, specifically, the systematic evaluation study was conducted to clarify the legality and design guidelines for the issue of "what kind of movement components have an effect on user awareness and information recognition". There are no existing documents including Non-Patent Document 2. Therefore, in the present embodiment, a subject evaluation experiment using a basic movement element group as a presentation stimulus was performed, and the influence of basic movement components on the user's awareness and information recognition was verified. In the evaluation experiment, while letting the subject perform a continuous calculation task in the window displayed in the central area of the front display corresponding to the central visual field, the side display installed in the peripheral visual field area of the subject is described later. A dynamic visual stimulus consisting of seven conditions was presented. And the influence which each dynamic visual stimulus gives to a user was examined by subject's subjective evaluation.

  FIG. 2 shows a landscape photograph of the evaluation experiment conducted. Dynamic visual stimuli consisting of 7 conditions are: motion display to expand, motion display to reduce, motion display to move horizontally, motion display to move vertically, motion display to blink, fade-in motion display, motionless display ( (Hereinafter, referred to as an enlargement condition, a reduction condition, a horizontal condition, a vertical condition, a blinking condition, a see-through condition, and a constant condition in this order). Details of these conditions will be described later.

  The subject evaluation experiment was conducted in a shielded room with soundproofing function, and dynamic visual stimulation was performed 20 times per condition at random time intervals on a display installed in the peripheral visual field area of the subject performing the calculation task. It was presented at a viewing distance of about 50 cm and a viewing angle of about 10 degrees. The execution time of one condition was about 5 minutes, and immediately after the completion of each condition, the subject was allowed to perform a subjective evaluation of two items using the “Visual Analogue Scale” scale as a psychological index for the stimulus presented for each condition. With the evaluation using the “Visual Analogue Scale” scale, it is possible to quantitatively measure the subject's subjective feeling regarding the question item with a resolution of 100 levels with respect to the visual stimulus of each condition.

  The first item of the subjective evaluation is the degree of “easy to notice” for each condition of the dynamic visual stimulus. The second item of the subjective evaluation is a degree of a sense of “approaching” information (hereinafter referred to as “information reception feeling”) felt from each condition of dynamic visual stimulation. The subjects were 15 adults with healthy vision.

  FIG. 3 shows a graph of the evaluation result of the first item “ease of awareness” of the subjective evaluation. In this graph, seven conditions are arranged from the left in the descending order of the average value of the 15 test subjects with the evaluation value (the maximum value is 100, and the larger the value, the easier it is to notice). The average evaluation values of the ease of notice were, in order from the largest, enlargement condition, horizontal condition, reduction condition, vertical condition, blinking condition, constant condition, and see-through condition.

  If this experimental result is applied to an embodiment in which notification information of at least two levels of importance is presented to the user by a pop-up notification window in a display mode corresponding to the importance, notification information with high importance It is considered that it is better to give conditions (enlargement condition, horizontal condition of the next point, etc.) that are easy to notice from the above results to the display state of the pop-up notification window.

  FIG. 4 shows a graph of the evaluation result of the second item “information reception feeling” of the subjective evaluation. In this graph, seven conditions are arranged from the left in the descending order of the average value of 15 subjects of evaluation values (the maximum value is 100, and the larger the value, the greater the sense of receiving information). The average evaluation value of the information reception feeling was, in order from the largest, enlargement condition, horizontal condition, reduction condition, vertical condition, blinking condition, see-through condition, and constant condition.

  Here, in the first item and the second item of subjective evaluation, the average evaluation values from the first place to the fifth place (enlargement condition, horizontal condition, reduction condition, vertical condition, blinking condition) are in the same order. I want to focus on that. That is, when presentation to the user is performed in the order of the enlargement condition, the horizontal condition, the reduction condition, the vertical condition, and the blinking condition, it is possible to give the user both noticeability and information reception feeling in descending order.

  Further, regarding the constant condition and the see-through condition, the magnitude relationship of the average evaluation values is different between the first item and the second item of the subjective evaluation. However, considering the purpose of this embodiment, it is considered that the ease of noticing is prioritized over the perception of information, and the see-through condition may hinder the user's concentration on the calculation task and lower the task work performance. It is also suggested from other result data of the evaluation experiment. Therefore, as a ranking of the display state of the pop-up notification window corresponding to the importance of the notification information, it is considered preferable to set the fixed condition to the sixth place and the see-through condition to the seventh place.

  Therefore, a system that gives notification to the user by a pop-up notification window by giving a “movement” that gives a sense of information reception according to the level of importance for notification information having multiple levels of importance. In software, it is preferable that the movement of the enlargement condition, the horizontal condition, the reduction condition, the vertical condition, the blinking condition, the constant condition, and the see-through condition is added to the notification information and displayed in a pop-up notification window in descending order of importance.

  FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the display control apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment. As illustrated in FIG. 5, the display control apparatus 10 includes a control unit 110, an input unit 120, a communication unit 130, a storage unit 140, and a display unit 150. The control unit 110 has a function of controlling the entire operation of the display control device 10. The input unit 120 has a function of inputting according to control by the control unit 110. The type of the input unit 120 is not particularly limited, and may be an input device that receives an operation input from a user.

  The communication unit 130 has a function of communicating with other devices. The type of the communication unit 130 is not particularly limited, and may be a communication interface that performs communication with other devices. The storage unit 140 can store a program and data for operating the control unit 110. In addition, the storage unit 140 can temporarily store various data necessary for the operation of the control unit 110. Programs and data for operating the control unit 110 may be dynamically updated by a predetermined server. The display unit 150 has a function of performing display according to control by the control unit 110. The type of the display unit 150 is not particularly limited, and may be a display device that displays the screen 200.

  In the example illustrated in FIG. 5, the input unit 120, the communication unit 130, the storage unit 140, and the display unit 150 exist inside the display control apparatus 10, but the input unit 120, the communication unit 130, the storage unit 140, and All or part of the display unit 150 may be provided outside the display control device 10. Here, FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the control unit 110. As illustrated in FIG. 6, the control unit 110 includes a data acquisition unit 111, a motion selection unit 112, a display control unit 113, and an importance level changing unit 114.

  In the following description, a system status information popup notification window display function in an operating system having a graphical user interface that operates on a computer system will be mainly described. However, the pop-up notification window display function according to the present embodiment is not limited to implementation in the operating system. For example, the pop-up notification window display function according to the present embodiment is also effective for the pop-up notification window display function often included in user communication-related software such as a telephone application, an e-mail application, an SNS application, and a video conference application. Can be applied automatically.

  Here, the function of each functional block included in the control unit 110 will be described. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of related information in which the importance level of the notification information is associated with the movement indicating the display state of the pop-up notification window. As shown in FIG. 7, importance and movement are associated in advance. The related information thus associated may be prepared by software such as an operating system or application software, or may be given by an input operation by a user, transmission from a predetermined server, or the like.

  The data acquisition unit 111 acquires notification information to be notified to the user when various events occur. At this time, the data acquisition unit 111 also acquires the importance corresponding to the notified notification information. The importance corresponding to the notification information may be added to the notification information. The motion selection unit 112 selects a motion according to the importance acquired by the data acquisition unit 111 from a plurality of motions. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 7, importance is associated with each of the plurality of movements, and the motion selection unit 112 is associated with the importance acquired by the data acquisition unit 111 from the plurality of movements. Select the movement that is.

  The display control unit 113 controls the display unit 150 so that a pop-up notification window including notification information is pop-up displayed with movement. According to this method, the notification information can be notified to the user by an easily noticeable presentation method using human characteristics. Further, according to this method, it is possible to provide a user of a computer system with an information usage environment that is more convenient than before.

  Here, for example, the display control unit 113 may display a normal pop-up notification window 204 in a normal case (see FIG. 8A). A case where the type of importance associated with the notification information is one or less is also assumed. In such a case, the display control unit 113 may add a display indicating that the type of importance is one or less to the pop-up notification window 204. If it does so, the case where the kind of importance linked | related with notification information is 1 level or less and the case where it is 2 levels or more can be easily distinguished by the user. The fact that the type of importance is one or less is not particularly limited.

  For example, the display control unit 113 adds text data such as “No importance level is set” to the title column 204A of the pop-up notification window 204, indicating that the type of importance level is one level or less. Alternatively, it may be added to the text field 204B of the pop-up notification window 204 (see FIG. 8C). Alternatively, the display control unit 113 may add a predetermined color to the pop-up notification window 204 (see FIG. 8D).

  Also, when the importance type associated with the notification information exceeds the number of movements (in the above example, the importance type exceeds 7), or when the importance level is less than the number of movements (above In the example, it is assumed that the importance is less than 7th). Even in such a case, the display control unit 113 may add a display indicating the importance level to the pop-up notification window 204. That way, the importance associated with the notification information can be easily identified by the user who viewed the pop-up notification window 204.

  The importance level changing unit 114 changes at least a part of the importance levels associated with each of the plurality of movements. The change of importance may be made by changing the association between the movement and importance included in the related information, or may be made by rewriting the importance itself included in the related information. Information for designating the importance of the change target may be given from anywhere, but may be given by an input operation by a user or transmission from a predetermined server. The timing for changing the importance level is not particularly limited, but the importance level changing unit 114 sets the importance level associated with each of the plurality of movements when at least one of the movement deletion, addition, and exchange is performed. It may be changed.

  Although how to change the importance level is not particularly limited, the importance level changing unit 114 may change the importance level while maintaining the vertical relationship of the importance levels of movements other than the change target. For example, in the example shown in FIG. 7, the related information is (importance, movement) = (1, enlargement), (2, horizontal), (3, reduction), (4, vertical), (5, blinking), (6, constant), (7, see-through), but when the movement “reduction” is deleted, the importance level changing unit 114 sets the related information to (importance, movement) = (1 , Enlarged), (2, horizontal), (3, vertical), (4, blinking), (5, constant), (6, see-through).

  Alternatively, when a new movement is added, the importance level changing unit 114 changes the related information to (importance, movement) = (1, enlargement), (2, horizontal), (3, reduction), (4, vertical), (5, blinking), (6, constant), (7, see-through), (8, new movement) may be used. Alternatively, when the movement “vertical” and the movement “flashing” are exchanged, the importance level changing unit 114 sets the related information to (importance, movement) = (1, enlargement), (2, horizontal). , (3, reduced), (4, blinking) (5, vertical), (6, constant), (7, see-through).

  In the example shown in FIG. 7, the plurality of movements include all of the enlargement condition, the horizontal condition, the reduction condition, the vertical condition, the blinking condition, the constant condition, and the illuminating condition. Any of these conditions may be included in. That is, a plurality of movements may include an enlargement condition, a horizontal condition, a reduction condition, or a vertical condition. Good. Alternatively, the plurality of movements may include a blinking condition, a certain condition, or a see-through condition.

  There is no limitation on how the display control unit 113 changes the display of the pop-up notification window with the passage of time. However, “dynamic display” that first changes the display is performed, and “static” that does not subsequently change the display is performed. Display "may be performed. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a temporal change in display of the pop-up notification window according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 9, in the “dynamic display” time zone, the display is performed in a fluid manner depending on the above conditions, and in the “static display” time zone, The display should be performed in a fixed manner that does not depend on.

  FIG. 9 shows an example in which “dynamic display” is performed between 0 ms and 300 ms and “static display” is performed between 300 ms and 800 ms from the start of display of the pop-up notification window. However, the start time and end time of each of “dynamic display” and “static display” are not particularly limited. Hereinafter, the enlargement condition, the horizontal condition, the reduction condition, the vertical condition, the blinking condition, the constant condition, and the see-through condition will be described in more detail.

  10 to 16 are diagrams for explaining a display method of the pop-up notification window. The same reference numerals are given to the same elements as those described with reference to FIG. 1, and the description thereof is omitted. In particular, details of the task bar 201, the icon 202, and the software window 203 activated and used by the user are omitted here. Each of FIGS. 10 to 16 shows a display state of a pop-up notification window with a movement corresponding to the above-described enlargement condition, horizontal condition, reduction condition, vertical condition, blinking condition, constant condition, and see-through condition. .

  In order to express the movement, each of FIGS. 10 to 16 shows a continuous change in the position, shape, display density, etc. of the pop-up notification window by including a plurality of time-series screens. Moreover, the broken lines in each figure are merely shown for explaining the display size and display position in the final state of the pop-up notification window, and need not be displayed on the screen.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a procedure for presenting the pop-up notification window 204 with a motion (enlargement condition) that expands. For example, the display control unit 113 uses the center point of the window 204 as a reference point, and increases the size of the window 204 at a constant speed in the peripheral direction of the window 204 while maintaining the aspect ratio of the window 204. In the evaluation experiment, the constant speed was an increase of about 30 cm per second in both the width and the height of the window, but other speeds may be used. In the following description of other movements (display size and display position), the constant speed may refer to about 30 cm per second, but may be other speeds.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a procedure for presenting the pop-up notification window 204 with a horizontal translation motion (horizontal condition). For example, in the case where the window 204 is displayed at the lower right end of the screen 200 as described above, the display control unit 113 displays the window 204 at a constant speed in the horizontal direction from the lower right end of the screen 200 toward the center of the screen. Is translated. Rather than enlarging the window 204, the drawing of the window 204 may be added in order from the left side of the window 204 as much as it is displayed on the screen 200 due to the parallel movement. Then, it appears to the user as if the window 204 slides in from the outside of the screen 200.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a procedure for presenting the pop-up notification window 204 accompanied by a movement (reduction condition) to be reduced. For example, the display control unit 113 displays the window 204 at the display size and display position in the final state of movement. Subsequently, the display control unit 113 uses the center point of the window 204 as a reference point, and reduces the size of the window 204 at a constant speed in the center direction of the window 204 while maintaining the aspect ratio of the window 204. When the size of the window 204 is reduced, it becomes difficult to read the description content of the window 204. Therefore, after the reduction is completed, the display control unit 113 restores and displays the window 204 in the display size and display position in the final state of movement. You may let me. This restoration display may be performed instantaneously in the same manner as a certain condition described later.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of a procedure for presenting the pop-up notification window 204 with a vertical translation motion (vertical condition). For example, in the case where the window 204 is displayed at the lower right end of the screen 200 as described above, the display control unit 113 displays the window 204 at a constant speed in the vertical direction from the lower right end of the screen 200 toward the center of the screen. Is translated. Rather than enlarging the window 204, the drawing of the window 204 may be added in the order from the upper side of the window 204 to the extent displayed on the screen 200 due to the parallel movement. Then, it appears to the user as if the window 204 slides in from the outside of the screen 200.

  FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a procedure for presenting the pop-up notification window 204 with a blinking motion (flashing condition). Although the display size and the display position of the window 204 are not different from the display size and the display position in the final state of movement, the display control unit 113 may repeat the display and non-display of the window 204 at predetermined time intervals. In the evaluation experiment, the time interval from display to non-display (0 ms to 150 ms) and from non-display to display (150 ms to 300 ms) was 150 ms, but other time intervals may be used. Also, the number of blinks is not particularly limited.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a procedure for presenting the pop-up notification window 204 with a motion (a certain condition) that appears instantaneously. For example, the display control unit 113 changes the display position of the window 204 or changes the display size so that the window 204 is displayed instantaneously and is not instantaneously displayed in the same manner as general window display. Display. Note that although the momentary time is not limited, for example, the momentary time may be a time that is too short for humans to discriminate.

  For more details, refer to Reference Document 1 “Wake Noriji, Hasegawa Takashi, 1994, Flicker, New Handbook of Sensory and Perceptual Psychology, Seishin Shobo, pp. 338-339”, “Critical flicker frequency (CFF: critical flicker frequency). ) Reaches 50-60 Hz at high brightness ". The critical flicker frequency means the frequency at which flickering disappears and the human eye begins to look like continuous light even if the light is actually flashing. Therefore, it is considered that the instantaneous time may be, for example, within a time corresponding to one cycle of 50-60 Hz (that is, 16 ms).

  Also, Reference 2 “With a test movie that can be easily tested: Is the response speed really true? Check the video performance of the liquid crystal display (2/4) ITmedia PC USER” (http://www.itmedia.co. (jp / pcuser / articles / 1005/31 / news001_2.html) describes that “the frame rate is 60 fps because the refresh rate of the liquid crystal display is basically 60 Hz”. In the case of a CRT display, the refresh rate is usually higher than 60 Hz. Therefore, a display that is generally available in recent years usually has a display switching speed of 60 Hz or higher, and it is considered that there is no hardware barrier of the display for realizing a certain condition.

  FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of a procedure for presenting the pop-up notification window 204 accompanied by a movement (transduction condition) in which the transparency decreases. For example, the display control unit 113 continuously changes the transparency (alpha value) of the window 204 without changing the display position of the window 204 or changing the display size. Specifically, first, the display control unit 113 maximizes the transparency of the window 204 to make the window 204 transparent, gradually lowers the transparency within a predetermined time, and finally reduces the transparency to 0. To. The length of the predetermined time is 300 ms in the evaluation experiment, but may be other time.

  Note that the display control apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment can also be applied to devices smaller than a computer system. Specifically, the present invention is not limited to a computer system, and can be similarly applied to a general computer terminal having a small display device such as a smartphone, a PDA, or a portable music player with a display. FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an example of a procedure for presenting the pop-up notification window 204 having a small display device having a size of 5 inches or less and accompanied by a horizontal translation movement (horizontal condition). The status bar 205 has a function of statically displaying information such as the state of the computer terminal. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the element same as the element demonstrated using FIG. 1, and the description is abbreviate | omitted.

  Subsequently, an operation example of the display control apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 18 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the display control apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment. In this operation example, the seven types of movements are used as the plurality of movements of the pop-up notification window. However, the plurality of movements are not limited to the seven types of movements, and may be two or more movements. Moreover, since this operation example is only an example of the operation of the display control device 10, it goes without saying that the operation of the display control device 10 is not limited to this example.

  First, the data acquisition unit 111 detects that an event to be notified to the user has occurred (step S11). Examples of events include, as described above, a change in the state of the system or software, the presence of an update program for the system or software, or reception of contact information from another person in the application software. Notification information is acquired by detecting the occurrence of an event. Subsequently, the motion selection unit 112 determines whether or not the type of importance associated with the notification information is two or more (step S12). Such a determination can be made by the function of the operating system or various application software.

  If the motion selection unit 112 determines that the type of importance associated with the notification information is one level or less (“No” in step S12), the motion selection unit 112 proceeds to step S13. For example, when the type of importance associated with the notification information is one level, or when the type of importance is not associated with the notification information, the type of importance associated with the notification information is one level or less. It is determined that On the other hand, if the motion selection unit 112 determines that there are two or more types of importance associated with the notification information (“Yes” in step S12), the motion selection unit 112 proceeds to step S14.

  When the process proceeds to step S13, the movement selecting unit 112 selects a software default setting movement or a user arbitrary setting movement, and the display control unit 113 displays a window including notification information along with the movement. Control is performed so that a pop-up is displayed (step S13). This is because it is considered that a standard pop-up display should be performed when it is determined that the type of importance associated with the notification information is one level or less.

  For example, if the motion selection unit 112 determines that the type of importance associated with the notification information is one level or less, the motion selection unit 112 selects a motion previously selected by the user from the seven motions, and the display control unit 113 The window may be controlled to pop up with such movement. In such a case, the display control unit 113 may add a display (for example, text, icon, etc.) indicating that the type of importance associated with the notification information is one level or less to the pop-up notification window. If it does so, the case where the kind of importance linked | related with notification information is 1 level or less and the case where it is 2 levels or more can be easily distinguished by the user. Thereafter, the display control unit 113 may proceed to step S18.

  When the process proceeds to step S14, the motion selection unit 112 determines whether or not the type of importance associated with the notification information is 8 or more and the importance is 8th or less (step S14). ). Such a determination can be made by the function of the operating system or various application software. If the motion selection unit 112 determines that the type of importance associated with the notification information is 8 or more and the importance is 8 or less (“Yes” in step S14), the motion selection unit 112 proceeds to step S15. move on. On the other hand, when the motion selection unit 112 determines that the type of importance associated with the notification information is 7 or less, or the importance is 7 or more (“No” in step S14), Proceed to S16.

  When the process proceeds to step S15, the motion selection unit 112 lacks the types of motion, and thus the motion with the lowest importance of the above seven types of motion (in the above example, the seventh-ranked transparent). The display control unit 113 performs control so that a window including the notification information is popped up with the movement (step S15).

  In addition, when the type of importance associated with the notification information is 8 or more and the importance is 8th or less, the movement with the lowest importance may be selected, which is associated with the notification information. Information that has an importance level of 8th or lower may have a lower absolute importance to the user in the first place. This is because the advantage of being able to be identified is considered to be small, and it is considered that it is often sufficient to identify even the fact that the notification information is of a lower priority level, which is sufficient for identification. In addition, in the same case, the behavior of the software default setting may be selected. As described above, there may be a design philosophy that the standard pop-up display may be performed for the notification information with the lower importance. Because it is considered.

  The display control unit 113 displays the importance level associated with the notification information (whether the movement with the lowest importance level is selected or the movement with the software default setting is selected). For example, text, icons, etc.) may be added to the pop-up notification window. Then, the importance associated with the notification information can be easily identified by the user. Thereafter, the display control unit 113 may proceed to step S18.

  When the process proceeds to step S16, the movement selecting unit 112 selects one movement from the seven movements according to the importance of the notification information (step S16). For example, in the example illustrated in FIG. 7, the motion selection unit 112 selects the enlargement condition when the importance is first, the horizontal condition when the importance is second, the reduction condition when the importance is third, and the fourth condition. In this case, the movement of the vertical condition, the blinking condition in the fifth place, the constant condition in the sixth place, and the see-through condition in the seventh place may be selected.

  In addition, referring to the experimental results of the evaluation experiment described above, it was also confirmed that some subjects may have a strong disgust with a strong movement such as a blinking condition. Therefore, depending on the user, it is not necessary to use all of the above seven types of movements. In such a case, the motion selection unit 112 may be able to delete a motion previously selected by the user from the seven motions. Such deletion can be performed by the function of the operating system or various application software.

  When a part of the motions is deleted from the above seven types of motions, it is preferable that the upper and lower relationships of the importance levels of the remaining plural types of motions are maintained. For example, when the 2nd horizontal condition and the 5th blinking condition are deleted from the related information shown in FIG. 7, the importance is 1st, the expansion condition is 2nd, the reduction condition is 3rd, Is changed to a vertical condition, a fixed condition in the fourth place, and a see-through condition in the fifth place. When the related information is updated in this way, there are five types of importance of the notification information, and the determination in step S14 is “whether the type of importance is 6 levels or more and the importance is 6th or less”. Needless to say, it is changed to “No”.

  In this example, a part of movements selected by the user is deleted from the seven kinds of movements. However, as in this example, even when there are less than seven types of motion prepared by the system designer, the vertical relationship of the importance of motion other than the missing types may be maintained. Similarly to this example, even when the movements prepared by the system designer include movements that are not classified into the above seven types, the importance of movements other than the movements that are not classified into the seven types are included. The upper and lower relations may be maintained.

  When the process proceeds to step S17, the display control unit 113 performs control so that a window including the notification information is popped up with the selected movement (step S17). After the static display is completed, the display control unit 113 continues to display the pop-up notification window statically while maintaining the display size and the display position in the final state of the pop-up notification window. Control (step S18).

  When the process proceeds to step S19, the display control unit 113 completes the static display of the pop-up notification window and hides the pop-up notification window (step S19). The condition for terminating the static display of the pop-up notification window may be that the default display time set in advance in the operating system or various application software has elapsed, or the user clicks the pop-up notification window with the mouse. It may be a condition that an end operation event has occurred. When the popup notification window is hidden, the display operation of the popup notification window ends.

[Description of effects]
As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, it is easy to notice and obtain a sense of receiving information using human characteristics according to the level of importance of information presented to the user. It is possible to present a step-by-step pop-up notification window that takes a displayed form. In addition, it is possible to provide an ICT environment that is more convenient than conventional ones for computer system users.

[Description of modification]
The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to such examples. It is obvious that a person having ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention pertains can come up with various changes or modifications within the scope of the technical idea described in the claims. Of course, it is understood that these also belong to the technical scope of the present invention.

  Each block configuring the control unit 110 includes, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a RAM (Random Access Memory), and the like, and a program stored in the storage unit 180 is expanded on the RAM and executed by the CPU. Thus, the function can be realized. Or each block which comprises the control part 110 may be comprised by the hardware for exclusive use, and may be comprised by the combination of several hardware.

  In this specification, the steps described in the flowcharts are executed in parallel or individually even if they are not necessarily processed in time series, as well as processes performed in time series in the described order. Including processing to be performed. Further, it goes without saying that the order can be appropriately changed even in the steps processed in time series.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Display control apparatus 110 Control part 111 Data acquisition part 112 Selection part 113 Display control part 114 Importance change part 120 Input part 130 Communication part 140 Storage part 150 Display part 180 Storage part 200 Screen 204 Pop-up notification window

Claims (12)

A data acquisition unit for acquiring notification information and importance of the notification information;
A motion selection unit that selects a motion according to the importance from a plurality of motions;
A display control unit that controls the display unit so that a window including the notification information is popped up with the movement;
A display control device. An importance is associated with each of the plurality of movements,
The movement selection unit selects a movement associated with the importance of the notification information from the plurality of movements;
The display control apparatus according to claim 1. The display control device includes:
An importance level changing unit that changes at least a part of the importance level associated with each of the plurality of movements;
The display control apparatus according to claim 2. The importance level changing unit changes the importance level associated with each of the plurality of movements at least when the movement is deleted, added, or exchanged,
The display control apparatus according to claim 3. The importance level changing unit changes the importance level while maintaining the vertical relationship of the importance levels of movements other than the change target.
The display control apparatus according to claim 4. The display control unit adds a display to the window indicating that the type of importance is 1 level or less when the type of importance associated with the notification information is 1 level or less;
The display control apparatus according to claim 2. The display control unit is configured to display the window indicating the importance when the type of importance associated with the notification information exceeds the number of movements or when the importance is less than the number of movements. To add to the
The display control apparatus according to claim 2. The plurality of movements include at least a movement of the window expanding.
The display control apparatus according to claim 1. The plurality of movements include at least a movement in which the window moves horizontally.
The display control apparatus according to claim 1. The plurality of movements include at least movements that reduce the transparency of the window.
The display control apparatus according to claim 1. Obtaining notification information and importance of the notification information;
Selecting a movement according to the importance from a plurality of movements;
Controlling a display unit so that a window including the notification information is popped up with the movement;
A display control method comprising: Computer
A data acquisition unit for acquiring notification information and importance of the notification information;
A motion selection unit that selects a motion according to the importance from a plurality of motions;
A display control unit that controls the display unit so that a window including the notification information is popped up with the movement;
A program for causing a display control device to function.