JP3147262B2 - Knowledge output device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a knowledge output apparatus for assisting human knowledge acquisition activities such as "memorizing" knowledge such as CAI, particularly English words, kanji, and historical eras.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, printed publications such as reference books and word books and CAI have been used for knowledge acquisition activities.

[0003] Because print publications are portable, learning can be done anytime, anywhere. But,
Since knowledge is presented to all users in the same configuration and format, a situation arises in which the presented knowledge does not reflect the interests and needs of each user. As a result, the user's knowledge acquisition efficiency cannot be maintained at a high level.

[0004] The CAI can make the knowledge presented to the user and the method of presentation correspond to each user's attribute, but the range of learning is limited due to the difficulty of carrying the machine. Also, if you want to review the knowledge once presented,
It is necessary to recreate the knowledge presentation screen according to the usage record. Even when re-creation is not necessary, searching on printed publications is easier for humans than searching on the CAI screen.

[0005]

The above-mentioned print publications and CAI cannot maintain the user's knowledge acquisition activity efficiency at a high level.

[0006] An object of the present invention is to provide a knowledge output device that supports individual users in a knowledge acquisition activity of memorizing knowledge.

[0007]

According to the present invention, there is provided a knowledge output apparatus comprising: user information input means for inputting at least one piece of information about a predetermined user; information about the user; By comparing the values of the determined attributes between predetermined items, an appropriate rank among the ranks of the importance divided into at least two stages is added to the knowledge of the acquisition target candidate as the value of the importance. Knowledge importance determining means for classifying knowledge by the above, and screen composition means for determining the configuration of at least one side of the knowledge presentation screen by comparing the value of the added importance with a predetermined reference. Maintains a database that stores the configuration of at least one knowledge presentation screen, determines the value of each item related to the configuration of each saved screen, and determines the output order of the screen that is predetermined. And rules and determines the output order of the screen by matching the screen output order determining means for storing in the database the determined output order the configuration of the screen that,
Output means for outputting knowledge specified to be displayed on the screen in an arrangement method designated by referring to a predetermined arrangement rule in the determined output order.

The knowledge output device of the present invention further outputs knowledge to a restricted display medium, especially when the element constituting the screen is defined by a rule defining an alternative expression method for a predetermined display medium restriction. It has means for performing processing such as change and deletion, and means for outputting a knowledge presentation screen in accordance with predetermined characteristics of the display medium.

[0009]

According to the present invention, the user's attribute is determined,
The output order of the screen is determined by comparing the values of the items of the configuration of the screen for presenting the knowledge (knowledge presentation screen) determined based on the importance of the knowledge with a predetermined rule for determining the output order of the screen. Is determined, and according to the designation of the item regarding the screen configuration by referring to the predetermined arrangement rule,
The gist is to output the knowledge presentation screen in accordance with the display medium in the determined output order.

[0010] The invention of claim 1 is to provide a knowledge presentation screen composed of the characteristics of the user input by the user and the attributes of the knowledge to be acquired by the user, and the characteristics of the configuration and the personal characteristics of the user. By determining the output order from the features, the present invention is characterized in that knowledge important to the user is easily presented in the impression of the user.

[0011] For example, it is necessary to store a plurality of knowledge from the characteristics of the individual user. For this purpose, a plurality of knowledge presentation screens are created, and it is determined that the knowledge to be stored should be stored with the highest priority. If the user has the knowledge, the user can naturally easily pay attention to this word by using means such as presenting the screen on which the knowledge is presented to the user prior to other screens.

There are a plurality of types of media on which a screen is output. However, even if the method of expressing knowledge is restricted, such as when the medium on which the screen is output is changed from display to paper, the user may not be able to view the knowledge presentation screen output on the display. The importance of the relative knowledge to be judged and the importance of the relative knowledge to be judged by the user when viewing the knowledge presentation screen printed on the paper must be the same.

[0013] In view of the above, the invention of claim 2 provides a system in which even a display medium having limited expressive means is replaced with an expressive means that cannot be used by an expressive means that can be used on the display medium. The present invention is characterized in that knowledge is presented to the user in an expression corresponding to the user.

For example, a change is made such that a moving image is used on the display, but one scene in the moving image is used as an illustration on paper.

[0015]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. << Embodiment 1 >> FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a knowledge output device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of only a presentation mechanism of the output unit 18,
FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram including a printing mechanism of the output unit 18.

The user information input unit 10 receives information 101 on the user from the user. The user information database 11 holds information on the user himself and his / her learning. The knowledge importance determination unit 12 determines the importance of each knowledge. The knowledge database 13 stores knowledge to be acquired by the user and information on each knowledge. The component database 14 stores the elements that make up the knowledge presentation screen and information about the elements. The screen configuration unit 15 determines the components to be used for presenting the knowledge and the arrangement method, and sets the screen design table 1
04 is created. The table database 16 stores the created screen design table 104. The screen output order determination unit 17 determines the output order of the knowledge presentation screen specified by the screen design table 104 stored in the table database 16. The output unit 18 includes a device that controls the output of the screen, a display that outputs the screen,
It is composed of a printer or the like, and outputs the knowledge presentation screens in the order determined by the screen output order determination unit 17. The output unit 18 also serves to connect the user to the device, such as displaying a message to obtain information from the user.

Next, a procedure for transmitting data between the components of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described.

A user who uses the apparatus for the first time inputs user information 101 in the user information input section 10.
A screen for inputting the user information 101 is illustrated in FIG. The user information 101 in one embodiment includes, for example, “name”, “age”, “occupation”, “professional”, “English history”, “substantial academic ability” of the user.
There are items of “interest”, “desired level”, “learned knowledge”, “presentation use element”, “presentation use rule”, “user number”, and “print”. The items of “real scholastic ability”, “learned knowledge”, “presentation use element”, “presentation use rule”, “user number”, and “print” are items that are not input because they are set by the system. The user information input unit 10 also converts the input data of the "occupation" and "English history" items according to the conversion table owned by the user. The setting of “substantial academic ability” is also performed in the user information input unit 10. From the second use, when the user inputs a name, the data stored in the user information database 11 is referred to, the user information 101 is automatically registered, and the user only needs to confirm and correct. Also becomes possible. The user information 101 input and set in the user information input unit 10 is sent to the knowledge importance determination unit 12.

The knowledge importance determining unit 12 determines the knowledge stored in the knowledge database 13 based on the knowledge importance determination rule possessed therein and the user information 101 received from the user information input unit 10. The importance of each piece of knowledge to be presented is determined, and importance information 1
02 is created. Then, the knowledge number and importance of the knowledge data whose importance is not 0 are sent to the screen composition unit 15 together with the user information 101 as knowledge number information 103 and importance information 102, respectively.

The screen composition unit 15 includes the knowledge importance determination unit 12
User information 101, importance information 102,
Knowledge number information 103 and two rules (component selection rule and presentation screen creation rule) possessed therein,
Then, by creating the screen setting table 104 using the component database 14, the configuration of the knowledge presentation screen is designated. All the created screen setting tables 104 are sent to the table database 16. Screen composition unit 15
In addition, the number of the knowledge, the component, and the presentation rule used for creating the table are stored in the “learned knowledge” of the user information 101.
The user information 101 is registered in the “presentation use element” and “presentation use rule” items, and then the user information 101 is sent to the screen output order determination unit 17.

The table database 16 stores a screen setting table 104 sent from the screen construction unit 15.

The screen setting table 104 is created for the knowledge selected as a presentation target each time the user starts the apparatus, and is deleted from the table database 16 when the user finishes starting the apparatus. Is temporary information.

The screen output order determining unit 17 includes a screen forming unit 15
The order in which the screens are presented is determined by the user information 101 received from the user, the respective table information in the table database 16 and the screen output order determination rules held therein, and the result is stored in each table in the table database 16. Register in the "Output order" item. And the output unit 1
8, the user information 101 is sent.

Output unit 18 receiving user information 101
According to the basic rules of component arrangement and the screen design table 104 in the table database 16,
Output the knowledge presentation screen to the display. Then, the user is asked whether he / she wants to print the presented screen on paper, and if so, prints. Regarding the knowledge of printing, the date of printing is written in the “print” item in the user information 101. Then, the user information 101 is sent to the user information database 11. The user information database 11 stores the transmitted user information 101.
Save for future use.

FIGS. 5 and 6 are flowcharts showing the processing procedure in this embodiment. The manner in which the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 executes processing and provides knowledge according to the procedure shown in the flowcharts of FIGS.

Assume that the user is a company employee who has graduated from high school and has started working for a trading company that imports furniture. I will have Eiken Level 3 as a qualification.

In step 31, the user information input unit 10 presents a user information input screen as shown in FIG. 7 and requests the user to input information relating to the user.

As illustrated in FIGS. 8, 9 and 10,
Selection candidates are presented in data entry of "occupation", "specialty", "English history", and "desired level", and a user selects and inputs from the selection candidates.

The selected field of the "specialty" item changes according to the "occupation" input by the user. For example, "occupation"
Is "University 3rd and 4th year", the field of choice for the "Specialty" item is "Literature, Agriculture, Engineering, Physics, Education ...", and if "Occupation" is "Company employee" In this case, the fields to be selected are "Steel / Sales / General Affairs / Technology ..., Banks / Sales / General Affairs ...". The item “interest” is an item for designating a specialty field or the like that the user wants to study with particular emphasis at that time. The “desired level” item is an item for setting the level of knowledge to be presented to a level at which the user wants to acquire, and is set only when the user has a request like the “interest” item. On the screen illustrated in FIG. 10, a desired learning level number is selected and input. The "substantial academic ability" item does not appear on the input request screen because the system determines and sets the value from "occupation", "desired level", and "English history".

Now, from the current user, name = user A, age 19, occupation = company employee, specialty = trade / sales, English history = Eng 3rd grade, interest = none, desired level = 4 (University 11, 12 years, about junior college) user information 101 was obtained.

The user information input unit 10 uses the occupation data conversion table held therein to change the "occupation" data to "company employee" in step 32 in order to simplify future data operations.
To “6” and re-register. An occupational data conversion table is exemplified as Table 1.

[0032]

[Table 1] In step 32, the "English history" data is also converted, replaced with the data value of the "English history symbol" item in the English history correspondence table of Table 2, and registered again. In this case, "Eiken 3rd grade" is changed to "3".

[0033]

[Table 2] The “English history symbol” item in the English history correspondence table takes any value from “1 (rank)” to “6 (rank)”. These ranks have the same settings as the ranks taken in the "occupation" item. In other words, if the "occupation" data is "3", high school students are indicated by "3", "5" indicates college course students or graduate students. A score of "5" indicates that the student has the academic ability of a college professional or graduate student. Also, as can be seen from the comparison between FIG. 10 and Table 1,
The rank of the "desired level" item is set to be the same as the rank of the "occupation" item.

After the conversion of the "occupation" and "English history" data, in step 33 "substantial academic ability" is set by the system. If there is no "desired level" data, the "real scholastic ability" data is converted "occupation" data and "English history"
The larger of the data becomes the value, and the user information 10
Registered to 1. However, if the "desired level" data is set, the "desired level" data is compared with the "English history" data, and the larger value of the two is registered as the data of the "substantial academic ability" item. Is done. In this case, since the “desired level” is “4” and the “English history” is “3”, the “real scholastic ability” data takes a value of “4”.

The user information 10 set as described above
1 is sent to the knowledge importance determination section 12 in step 34.

In step 35, the knowledge importance determining unit 12 extracts the presentation target knowledge and its accompanying data from the knowledge database 13. Then, in step 36, the auxiliary data of each knowledge is compared with the user information according to the knowledge importance determination rule, and the importance is determined in step 37 based on the result. FIG. 11 shows an example of the knowledge importance determination rule to be collated in step 36.

In the knowledge database 13 storing English words and their meanings as "knowledge", knowledge data is stored in a format as shown in Table 3.

[0038]

[Table 3] Knowledge data includes items of attached data such as "knowledge number", "field", and "suitability" in addition to "word knowledge" and "semantic knowledge" which are knowledge. The “field” is information indicating a profession / academic field where “semantic knowledge” is frequently used.

The knowledge importance determination unit 12 uses the field / special correspondence table exemplified in Table 4 to determine the correspondence between the “field” data and the data input in the “special” item of the user information 101. Take. The collation of the “field” data and the “specialty” data performed with reference to the correspondence table is one of the procedures for determining the importance of knowledge.

[0040]

[Table 4] “Aptitude” is information indicating an appropriate time to teach the “knowledge”. Table 5 exemplifies the criteria for the “suitability”. Matching the “fitness” data with the “occupation” data of the user is also one of the procedures for determining the importance of knowledge.

[0041]

[Table 5] The knowledge importance determining unit 12 inputs an argument called M-Result for inputting the result of the knowledge "field" data, and an A-Res for inputting the result of the knowledge "suitability" data.
It has an argument of ult and a place to calculate importance of value. The initial value of importance is 0. The knowledge importance determining unit 12 also includes an argument k-box for capturing “field” data of knowledge, a d-box for capturing “aptitude” data, and a “specialty” data of a user. For U-BOX, and J-BO for "occupation" data
X, I-BOX for "interest" data, H-BOX for "desired level" data, and C-BOX for "English history" data. The data of the knowledge to be subjected to the importance determination processing is fetched into these arguments, respectively, and the data of the user fetched in the same manner is compared with the data of the user according to the rule illustrated in FIG.
ult and A-Result. And M-Result,
According to the value in A-Result, importance is calculated in value.

The processing for determining the importance of knowledge is shown in FIG.
This is shown in the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 12 shows M-Resul
The process of finding the values of t and A-Result, and FIG.
It is a flowchart of the process which calculates importance from the value of esult and A-Result.

From now on, the knowledge of the knowledge number 121 in Table 3 is taken as an example, and its importance is calculated.

The knowledge importance determining unit 12 determines that U-BOX = trade / business, J-BOX = 6, I-BOX = nil (no data), H-BOX = 4, C-BOX = 3, and k-box = Generally, d-box = 2, and put data in each argument. Processing is performed using these values and the rules of FIG.

Since there is no data in the I-BOX this time, it is first checked whether the value of the k-box is “general”. In this case, since YES, the value of S1 is put in the M-Result, and the process of obtaining the value of the M-Result ends. Next, a process of obtaining the value of A-Result is performed. H
Since the value exists in -BOX, the contents of H-BOX and d-box are compared. Since the data of the H-BOX is larger than the data of the d-box, the data value of the d-box is added to the A-Result,
That is, "2" is written. And M-Result and A-
The importance is calculated based on the value of Result. First, M-Re
Since the data of sult is S1, 1 is added to the importance. Next, there is data in A-Result, and the data
Since there is no ed symbol, one is added.
The importance is 2. Then, C-BOX data and A-R
When comparing the data of esult, the data in the C-BOX is larger. This indicates that there is a high possibility that the knowledge number 121 has already been learned based on the user's English history. Therefore, 0.5 is subtracted from the importance, and the knowledge number 121 is obtained.
Is determined to be 1.5.

The importance determined in this way is determined in step 3
8 is registered as importance information 102. The knowledge number is also registered as knowledge number information 103 in step 39.

In step 40, the knowledge importance determination unit 12 sends the user information 101, the importance information 102 of the knowledge whose importance is not 0 and the knowledge number information 103 to the screen composition unit 15 together. The screen composition unit 15 stores the knowledge number 12
1, information of importance 1.5 and user information 101 are received.

The screen composition unit 15 has a screen design table 104 as shown in FIG. 14, and determines the values of the items of the table for each of the knowledge to be presented in step 41 to create the screen design table 104. Specify the configuration of the knowledge presentation screen.

Creation of the screen design table 104 is performed in the following procedure.

First, according to the user information 101, the importance information 102 and the knowledge number information 103 received from the knowledge importance determination unit 12, and the component selection rules (illustrated in FIG. 15) possessed inside the screen composition unit 15. From the component database 14, component data such as sentences, photographs, and video images used for a screen for presenting knowledge are selected by number (an example of data in the component database 14 is shown in FIG. 16). Then, a method for arranging the components is determined by selecting and applying a rule used for presentation from the knowledge presentation screen creation rules (exemplified in FIG. 17). If there is knowledge to be presented on the same screen, the components and the presentation method are determined in the same manner. As a result of these processes, values are determined for each item of the screen design table 104.

The screen design table 1 thus created
04 is the table database 1 in step 42
Sent to 6.

The table database 16 is stored in step 60
Then, a table identification number for distinguishing the table is entered and stored in the “table” item of the screen design table 104 received from the screen configuration unit 15. The table identification numbers are simply A, B,
C, ... The “presentation check” item has no value at first, and is given a value of “1” first after the screen specified by the table is presented by the output unit 18.

FIGS. 18 and 19 show the table database 1.
6 shows an example of the screen design table 104 in FIG. These 7
One of the tables A to G specifies the knowledge presentation screen to be output this time.

The screen composing unit 15 determines a presentation method for all of the knowledge to be presented indicated by the knowledge number information 103, and when the transmission of the resulting screen design table 104 to the table database 16 is completed, In 43, the user information 101 is output to the screen output order determination unit 1.
Send to 7. In step 44, the screen composition unit 15 sets the knowledge / component / presentation rule number used for creating the screen design table in the “learned knowledge”, “presentation utilization element”, “presentation utilization rule” items of the user information 101. Register to each.

The screen output order determining section 17 stores the screen output order determining rules and table database 16 held therein.
According to the data indicated by the screen design table 104 in
A process for determining the output order of each screen is performed. The screen output order determination unit 17 has a structure called Order as a place for performing the work of changing the output order (see FIG. 2). Orde
r has a structure in which a table name and an output order are combined and registered. Before execution of the output order determination process, the output order of all tables has the same value, but is rewritten as needed as the process proceeds. The time when the same number disappears in the output order data is the end of the processing.

First, the screen output order determining unit 17 determines in step 4
In step 5, the table database 16 is accessed to create an Order structure. In the next step 46, the screen design type of each screen design table 104 and the data of the number, importance, and field of the knowledge constituting the screen are referred to.
The data of each table is compared according to the screen output order determination rule shown in FIG. 0, and the output order of each screen is sequentially determined.
Register in the r structure. Then, in step 47, a value is written in the “output order” item of each screen design table 104.

Now, a process for determining the output order of the screens will be described with reference to the screen design tables shown in FIGS.

First, based on the data shown in FIGS.
A der structure is created. The Order structure created this time is
｛(A, 7) (B, 7) (C, 7) (D, 7) (E,
7) (F, 7) (G, 7)}. At the start of processing, Or
All output order data of the der structure is unified to the number indicating the final output order. This Order structure firstly consists of ｛(A, 1) (B, 2) (C, 3) (D, 4) (E,
5) The total number of tables is counted as (F, 6) (G, 7)}, and all output order data is unified with the total number of obtained tables, that is, the last number in parentheses.

Next, a screen output order determination rule is applied. This rule is applied in order from rule 01.

First, the screens of the same configuration type are collected by applying the rule 01, and are rearranged in the order of the configuration type by the application of the rule 02. Where the Order structure is ｛(A, 7) (B, 6)
(C, 5) (D, 4) (E, 6) (F, 5) (G,
5) It becomes｝. This indicates that the data is output in the order of D, C-FG, EB, and A. -Tables connected by symbols
The output order is undecided. Then, subsequently, the process of determining the output order in CFG and the output order in EB is performed by applying the rule 03.

According to the rule 03-01, the output order is determined by the importance. Comparing the significance of the knowledge of position 1 in each of the FCG tables, F and C have the same value of 3 but G has the value of 2. Therefore, G is C, F, G
It will be output second. As for E and B, the importance of the knowledge of position 1 of the E table is 2.5 and the importance of the knowledge of position 1 of B is 2, so that it is determined that the information is output in the order of E and B. By the above processing, Order
The structure is ｛(A, 7) (B, 6) (C, 4) (D, 2)
(E, 5) (F, 4) (G, 3)}.

The rest is to determine the output order of C and F. Processing is performed according to rule 03-02. However, since the field of knowledge of position 1 of tables C and F is both "commercial", the output order cannot be determined. So rule 03-0
Proceeding to 3a, rule 03-01 is applied to the knowledge data located at position 2 of tables C and F.
Looking at the importance of the knowledge of the position 2, since C is 2 and F is 2.5, F is output before C.

As a result of the above processing, the Order structure becomes ｛(A,
7) (B, 6) (C, 4) (D, 1) (E, 5) (F,
2) (G, 3)}, and the output order of all tables has been determined.

Thereafter, the screen output order determination unit 17 writes the output order in the “output order” item of each table in the table database 16 based on the Order structure. FIGS. 21 and 22 show table examples after the output order is determined.

Then, as step 48, the user information 1
01 is sent to the output unit 18.

The processing executed by the output unit 18 includes:
There are two types: presenting a knowledge presentation screen on a display and printing it on paper. However, in this embodiment,
Only the processing for presentation on the display will be described, and the processing for printing on paper will be described in the next embodiment.

The output unit 18 refers to the “presentation check” item of each table in the table database 16 in step 49 and checks whether there is a table that has not been presented yet. In step 50, in accordance with the specification of the table in which the data of the “output order” item in the unpresented table has the minimum data, the knowledge and the configuration necessary to compose the screen are extracted and arranged, and output as a knowledge presentation screen on the display. I do.

After all screens are presented, step 5
Ask the user if there is a screen that needs to be re-presented in 3,
Processing is performed according to the answer.

Now, a series of processes for outputting the knowledge presentation screen to the display will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to a table example and the like.

The output unit 18 checks the “presentation check” items of all the tables. All "presentation check" items have no value, indicating that no screen has been presented yet. Therefore, the data of the “output order” item is “1”
Refer to the knowledge number and component number on the table
The knowledge is extracted from the knowledge database 13 and the components are extracted from the component database 14.

As illustrated in FIG. 16, component data is stored in the component database 14 in a different format for each type of data. The text data itself is stored together with the component number. Data of photographs and illustrations are stored individually as files, and the component numbers and the file numbers are stored together. The video data is stored on an LD or a video tape, and the frame number at the start of the video and the frame number at the end are stored together with the component numbers. When the knowledge presentation screen is output to the display, this frame number is L
It is passed to the D or video player, and the player presents the scene of the frame number at the start of the video on the screen, and waits as it is until the user requests the start of the video.

The output unit 18 applies the data on the sizes and positions of the components on the table and the basic rules for arranging the components shown in FIG. Output to After the output, the value “1” is entered in the “presentation check” item of the table. This is a mark that the screen has been presented.

FIG. 24 shows an example of a display on which the knowledge presentation screen is output. This knowledge presentation screen is shown in FIGS.
“Table” item = D, “output order” item =
This is a screen for designating one screen design table 105.

When the user desires to present the next knowledge presentation screen, the output unit 18 sets the data of the “output order” item to “2”.
The knowledge and components specified by the table are arranged and output to the display screen.

When the output of all the screens is completed in this way, the output unit 18 inquires of the user whether or not redisplay is necessary. When the answer to the necessity is obtained, the screens presented in the processing are collected in the presentation order and presented in a form as illustrated in FIG. The user flips through the book, finds the target screen, and acquires knowledge.

Thereafter, when the user sends a message indicating that the activation of the present apparatus is to be terminated, the output unit 18 causes the output unit 18 to execute step 55.
The user information 101 in the user information database 1
Send to 1.

The user information database 11 proceeds to step 6
In step 1, the received user information is stored in a form illustrated in FIG. 26 to prepare for the next use. << Embodiment 2 >> In Embodiment 2, a description will be given of processing in a case where a knowledge presentation screen is presented on a display by the output unit 18 and then printed on paper as desired by the user.

The processing up to step 48 when the user information 101 is passed to the output unit 18 is the same as the processing in the first embodiment, and can be easily analogized, so that the description is omitted here.

The output unit 18 checks whether there is a table that has not been presented yet in step 49, and in step 50, in accordance with the designation of the table in which the data of the “output order” item is the smallest among the tables that have not been presented, The knowledge and configuration required to compose the screen are extracted and arranged, and output as a knowledge presentation screen on a display. Then, in step 51, the user is asked whether or not to print the knowledge presentation screen, and the answer is also stored.

After repeating steps 49 to 51 and presenting all the screens, the output unit 18 prints the screens on paper and provides them to the user in step 52. Then, in step 53, the user is asked whether there is a screen that needs to be re-presented or printed, and in accordance with the answer, processing such as presenting the screen on a display, printing on paper, and ending the presentation is performed. In step 54, the user information 101 concerning the printing process of the page is described.
Record inside.

Now, a series of processes for outputting a knowledge presentation screen will be described with reference to table examples in FIGS. The following description focuses on the process of printing on paper.

The output unit 18 presents, on the display, the knowledge presentation screen designated by the table in which the data of the “output order” item is “1” in the method described in the first embodiment.
FIG. 24 is an example of a display on which the knowledge presentation screen is output.

In addition to the knowledge presentation screen, the display shown in FIG. 24 shows, "Do you want to print this screen on paper? Enter 1 if you want to print, 5 if you do not want to print it." Questions are presented. When the user who wants to print inputs 1, the message "Please select the paper size to be printed from the following and enter it" and "A
3: A4: A5: B4: B5 ". The sizes of these papers vary depending on the functions of the printer included in the output unit 18. If the user wants to print on A4 size paper, input as "A4". Output unit 1 is a place to store these answers.
8 holds a structure called Print. In Print, four types of information such as the table output order, whether or not the user wants to print the table on paper, the size of the paper to be printed, and whether or not printing has been completed are recorded. Has become. Therefore, the answer from the above user is printed in the Print structure.
= {(1,1, A4,0)}. The first number indicates the presentation order, and the number “1” in the second item indicates that printing is desired. The third item indicates the size of paper to be printed, and the last “0” indicates that printing has not been completed.

When the user desires to present the next knowledge presentation screen, the output unit 18 sets the data of the “output order” item to “2”.
The knowledge and components specified by the table are arranged and output to the display screen.

A question regarding printing of the screen is similarly asked. If the user does not print this screen,
The next record is made in the Print structure, and Print = ｛(1,
1, A4, 0) (2, 0, 0, 0)}. If there is no print request, the value of the second item becomes “0”.

By repeating the above processing, a knowledge presentation screen is output to the display in accordance with designation of all tables in the table database 16, and when a question about printing is completed, the screen desired by the user to be printed is printed. Done. For printing, the second term in the Print structure is “1”,
The fourth term is performed for the screen designated by the table of "0". The value of the fourth term is replaced with "1" after printing is completed. Changing the value of the fourth term to "1" indicates that the screen has been printed.

When the knowledge presentation screen is printed on paper, there may be restrictions on expression, such as a change in the medium on which the screen is output from the display to paper, making it impossible to use a moving image as a component. Even if such a constraint occurs, the relative importance of the knowledge among the plurality of knowledge presented by the activation of the apparatus, which is determined by the user, is determined when the knowledge is presented on the display. Should not be different from the result. Therefore, it is important that the expression method used as an alternative means in a restricted medium is a method that makes the user feel the same degree of importance as the original expression method. Such alternative means are determined by an alternative means defining rule which the output unit 18 has therein.

As described in FIG. 4, the output unit 18 determines an alternative means based on an alternative means definition rule. Examples of the rules for defining alternative means include:-Alternative means of "moving image" ...-Photos and figures-Alternative means of "enlargement of image" ...-Enlargement of example sentences, use of multiple images-"Reduction of image" Alternatives to "..." reduction of example sentences.

This time, instead of a moving image, the last scene of the moving image is printed as a figure and replaced. However, printing may be used by separately designating scenes that are judged to be suitable for the contents of other components used for presenting knowledge such as sentences, or it can be used for other components such as photographs and drawings It is.

When the printing of the desired screen is completed, the output unit 18 inquires of the user whether re-presentation or printing is necessary. Once you get the answer that you need it,
Screens presented in the process are collected in the order of presentation,
It is presented in a form as exemplified in FIG. The user flips through the book, finds the target screen, obtains knowledge, and performs printing procedures. The print history here is also recorded in the Print structure.

Thereafter, when the user sends a message indicating that the activation of the apparatus is to be terminated, the output unit 18 checks the Print structure against the table database 16 and checks the number of the knowledge printed on the paper. Then, “print” of the user information 101
Write the date and time when the knowledge was printed in the item.

User information 10 for all printed knowledge
When the recording is finished, the output unit 18 sends the user information 101 to the user information database 11 in step 55.

[0093] The user information database 11 proceeds to step 6
In step 1, the received user information is stored in the form illustrated in FIG. 26 to prepare for the next use.

[0094]

An experiment was performed using newspaper articles. He read and memorized several newspaper articles, and after a few days, had them search for them. They also talked about what they remembered about the articles they read.

As one of the experimental results, a tendency was observed that the first read article and the last read article had a strong memory. It has also been observed that if there is an article with similar content among multiple articles, it may cause an effect such as confusion in memory.

[0096] The invention of claim 1 is directed to a knowledge presentation screen composed of the characteristics of the user input by the user and the attributes of the knowledge to be acquired by the user. By determining the output order from the features, there is an effect that it is possible to present important knowledge to the user easily in the impression of the user.

In addition, a separate survey was conducted on the layout of the newspaper and the judgment of the importance of the article. An important article when the headline was large. An important article when the photograph was large. An article at the bottom or center of the paper. As a result, the article at the upper end was more important than others.

From the above results, it has been found that the importance can be determined based on the characteristics of the presentation surface of the knowledge, that the importance has a plurality of ranks, and that there are a plurality of means for determining the importance. This also indicates that it is possible to express the same degree of importance by different presentation means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, knowledge is output on a display medium with a limited number of expression means by substituting an expression means that can be used on the display medium with a limited expression means. There is an effect that it is possible to present knowledge in such a form that the user can judge the same importance as when he / she is.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a knowledge output device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a screen output order determination unit 17;

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of an output unit 18.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of an output unit 18.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a process according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a user information input screen.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a screen when a user's occupation is input.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a specialized item input screen when an occupation item is set to “company employee”;

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen when a user's desired level is input.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a knowledge importance determination rule.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a process for obtaining values of M-Result and A-Result.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart of a process for calculating knowledge importance.

14 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a screen design table 104. FIG.

FIG. 15 illustrates an example of a component selection rule.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of data in a component database 14;

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example of a knowledge presentation screen creation rule.

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen design table (before the output order is determined) stored in the table database 16;

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of a screen design table (before the output order is determined) stored in the table database 16;

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an example of a screen output order determination rule.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing an example of a screen design table (after an output order is determined) stored in a table database 16;

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of a screen design table (after the output order is determined) stored in the table database 16;

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing an example of a basic rule for arranging components.

24 is a diagram showing an example of a knowledge presentation screen output in accordance with the designation of table D (FIG. 21).

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing an example of a screen at the time of a request for re-presentation.

FIG. 26 is a diagram illustrating an example of storing user information.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 User Information Input Unit 11 User Information Database 12 Knowledge Importance Determination Unit 13 Knowledge Database 14 Component Database 15 Screen Composition Unit 16 Table Database 17 Screen Output Order Determination Unit 18 Output Unit 31-55, 61, 62 Step 101 Use Information 102 Importance information 103 Knowledge number information 104 Screen design table

────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-4-14177 (JP, A) JP-A-4-24872 (JP, A) Saka, Ozawa, Kobayashi, "Changes in behavior in newspaper article retrieval" About ”, Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol. 92, No. 89 (92-HI-45, 92-IM-8), November 13, 1992, p. 53-59 (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G06F 17/30 G06F 12/00 547 G09B 5/00 JICST file (JOIS)

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A user information input means for inputting at least one piece of information on a predetermined user, and information on the user and an attribute value attached to each acquisition target knowledge are set between predetermined items. And a knowledge importance determining means for classifying the knowledge by adding an appropriate rank among the ranks of the importance divided into at least two stages to the knowledge of the acquisition target candidate as the value of the importance. Screen configuration means for determining the configuration of at least one knowledge presentation screen by comparing the value of the added importance with a predetermined reference; and a database for storing the determined configuration of at least one knowledge presentation screen And the screen output order is checked by comparing the value of each item related to the configuration of each saved screen with a predetermined rule for determining the output order of the screen. Screen output order determining means for determining the determined output order together with the screen configuration in the database, and a layout method specified by referring to a predetermined layout rule in the determined output order. And a knowledge output device having output means for outputting knowledge specified to be displayed on a screen. 2. When outputting knowledge to a restricted display medium, in particular, processing such as changing or deleting an element constituting a screen according to a rule defining an alternative expression method for a predetermined restriction on the display medium is performed. 2. The knowledge output apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: means for outputting a knowledge presentation screen in accordance with predetermined characteristics of the display medium.