JP7568094B2 - DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - Google Patents

Description

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

There is a known UI extension technology that links a new UI to the UI (User Interface) of an existing system to extend the existing UI (see Patent Document 1). In the UI extension technology, the display of extended UI parts is controlled by using the status of the business system screen as a trigger. In addition, it is possible to group the extended UI parts to be set using HTML tags or unique display control variables operated within the tool, and control the display on a group basis.

Patent No. 6514084

However, with conventional UI extension technology, it was difficult to control the display on a group basis for operators. In other words, in order to efficiently carry out work within an organization, it is necessary to group groups of operators who share information according to the situation. However, conventional technology does not take display control on a group basis for operators. It is possible to control the display of the extended UI on a group basis for operators by simply linking operators to groups, but it requires a significant amount of work to keep up with changes in business processes and operator roles each time.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above, and aims to easily enable display control of an extended UI on a group basis for operators.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems and achieve the objective, the display control device of the present invention is characterized by having a memory unit that stores display information regarding the display of each group of extended UI parts of GUI parts that constitute a specified application, a generation unit that generates user information that associates the group with the user when the number of times the extended UI parts for each group have been used by a user in a specified period of time is greater than 0, and a display control unit that uses the display information and the user information to display to the user the extended UI parts of the group corresponding to the user.

According to the present invention, it becomes possible to easily control the display of an extended UI on a group basis for operators.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a display control device according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the display information. FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the process of the generation unit. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the process of the generation unit. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the process of the generation unit. FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a display control process. FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining the effect of the display control process. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a computer that executes a display control program.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited to this embodiment. In addition, in the description of the drawings, the same parts are indicated by the same reference numerals.

[Configuration of the display control device]
Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a display control device 10. As illustrated in Fig. 1, the display control device 10 of this embodiment is realized by a general-purpose computer such as a workstation or a personal computer, and includes an input unit 11, an output unit 12, a communication control unit 13, a storage unit 14, and a control unit 15.

The input unit 11 is realized using input devices such as a keyboard and a mouse, and inputs various instruction information such as starting processing to the control unit 15 in response to input operations by the implementer. The output unit 12 is realized by a display device such as a liquid crystal display, a printing device such as a printer, an information communication device, etc.

The communication control unit 13 controls communication with external devices via telecommunication lines such as a LAN (Local Area Network) or the Internet. For example, the communication control unit 13 controls communication between the control unit 15 and a user terminal 20 operated by a user.

In this embodiment, the user terminal 20 is used by a user to perform operations using, for example, a business application. Note that the display control device 10 of this embodiment may be implemented in the same hardware as the user terminal 20.

The storage unit 14 is realized by a semiconductor memory element such as a RAM (Random Access Memory) or a flash memory, or a storage device such as a hard disk or an optical disk. The storage unit 14 stores in advance the processing program that operates the display control device 10 and data used during execution of the processing program, or stores the data temporarily each time processing is performed. The storage unit 14 may be configured to communicate with the control unit 15 via the communication control unit 13.

In this embodiment, the storage unit 14 stores information about the extended UI parts that are the targets of the display control process described below. The information about the extended UI parts includes, for example, information about how to display the extended UI parts as annotation displays, information identifying a GUI part that corresponds to the extended UI parts, operation settings of the extended UI parts, and information identifying a linked UI part that is a GUI part that is the target of the operation of the extended UI parts.

Specifically, the memory unit 14 stores, for example, GUI part identification information that identifies a GUI part that corresponds to an extended UI part among the GUI parts that constitute a specific application such as a business application, as well as display information 14a, operation rules 14b, and user information 14c generated by the display control process described below.

Display information 14a is information regarding the display of extended UI parts of GUI parts by group. For example, display information 14a is information that specifies the position, form, etc. of how to display the extended UI parts as annotation display. In this embodiment, display information 14a is set to display multiple extended UI parts by group.

Here, FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the display information. FIG. 2 illustrates groups of extended UI components. For example, in FIG. 2(a), "Customer name," "Main phone number," "Representative name," and "Contact information" are grouped as Group 1.

In addition, "credit information input" of the customer management system in Fig. 2(a) and "risk assessment" of the case management system in Fig. 2(b) are grouped together as Group 2. In this way, by setting the display information 14a, it is also possible to group extended UI parts displayed on different screens into the same group.

Returning to the explanation of FIG. 1, the operation rule 14b is information that specifies the operation when an input is made to a specific extended UI part. For example, the operation rule 14b is information that specifies the conditions for what input is accepted for a displayed extended UI part, and which GUI part is to be used to execute an input to an extended UI part that meets the conditions.

In this embodiment, the operation rule 14b specifies a GUI part that is to execute a user input when, for example, an input that meets a condition is received for an extended UI part displayed on the user terminal 20. The operation rule 14b also includes an operation setting that controls an associated UI part for the extended UI part.

Here, a linked UI part is a GUI part that is the target of the operation of an extended UI part. In other words, a linked UI part is a GUI part that is the target of input when an extended UI part that accepts input such as a check box or selection input is configured to input to a specified GUI part when there is input. Alternatively, a linked UI part is a multiple GUI part that is the target of input when an extended UI part is configured to input to multiple specified GUI parts all at once. In this way, the operation of the extended UI part is configured in advance according to operation rule 14b so as to control the linked UI part.

The control unit 15 is realized by a CPU (Central Processing Unit) or the like, executes a processing program stored in memory, and functions as a generation unit 15a, a display control unit 15b, and an input execution unit 15c, as shown in FIG. 1. Note that each of these functional units may be implemented in different hardware. The control unit 15 may also have other functional units.

When the number of times an extended UI component for each group is used by a user in a specified period is greater than 0, the generation unit 15a generates user information 14c that associates the group with the user.

Here, Figures 3 to 5 are diagrams for explaining the processing of the generation unit. The generation unit 15a displays all extended UI parts to all users in advance during a predetermined period before the application is operated, and counts the number of times each user uses the extended UI parts of each group. For example, the generation unit 15a counts the number of times that input to the extended UI parts is detected as the number of uses.

Then, the generating unit 15a generates user information 14c by associating each group with a user whose number of uses of the extended UI parts of the group in a predetermined period, i.e., the frequency of use, is greater than 0. The generating unit 15a stores the generated user information 14c in the storage unit 14.

By referring to this user information 14c, the display control device 10 can control the display of extended UI parts of each group only for users whose usage frequency is greater than 0, as illustrated in Fig. 3. In the example illustrated in Fig. 3, the user information 14c associates, for example, User A with Group 1 and Group 3, User B with Group 2, Group 3, Group 5 and Group 6, and User C with Group 4.

Furthermore, when the number of times that the user has used the extended UI parts for each group in a predetermined period is 0, the generation unit 15a deletes the association between the user and the group from the user information 14c. Specifically, the generation unit 15a continues to count the number of times that the extended UI parts for each group have been used for each user during operation of the application on the user terminal 20.

Then, when the number of uses, i.e., the frequency of use, in a predetermined period for an extended UI part displayed to each user is 0, the generation unit 15a deletes the association between the user and the group from the user information 14c. This enables the display control device 10 to control not to display a group of extended UI parts that the user no longer uses, for example, when the user's role changes and the extended UI parts used change.

In addition, the generation unit 15a refers to the display information 14a, and when the number of times that a GUI part on which the extended UI part operates, i.e., an integrated UI part, is used by each user in a specified period of time is equal to or greater than a specified threshold, the generation unit 15a associates the user with the group to which the extended UI part belongs and adds them to the user information 14c.

Specifically, as shown in Fig. 4, when the number of times an associated UI part displayed to a user is used in a predetermined period, i.e., the frequency of use, during operation of the application is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, the generation unit 15a refers to the display information 14a, associates a group of extended UI parts corresponding to the associated UI part with the user, and adds the group to the user information 14c. This enables the display control device 10 to control the display of a group of extended UI parts that is not displayed to the user, for example, when the user's role is changed and the extended UI parts used are changed.

In the example shown in Figure 4, for example, when a user uses an integrated UI part of Group1, the display control device 10 can be controlled to display an extended UI part of Group1 that was not initially displayed to the user.

In addition, the generation unit 15a modifies the user information 14c so that, if the number of times that all users associated with each group in the user information 14c use the extended UI part of that group in a specified period is less than or equal to a specified threshold, and the number of times that all users use a GUI part that is the target of the operation of the extended UI part of another group, i.e., a linked UI part, is greater than or equal to a specified threshold, then the generation unit 15a associates all of those users with that other group.

Specifically, for each group in the user information 14c, the generation unit 15a counts the number of times, i.e., the frequency of use, of the extended UI parts of the group during a predetermined period for all users associated with the group. In addition, the generation unit 15a counts the frequency of use of linked UI parts of other groups for all the users.

As shown in Fig. 5, when the frequency of use of an extended UI part of a certain group is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold and the frequency of use of an associated UI part of another group is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold, the generation unit 15a changes the association of the user information 14c for all the users from one group to another group. This makes it possible to easily change the group of extended UI parts to be displayed when, for example, the roles of users are changed collectively.

In the example shown in Figure 5, the frequency of use of the extended UI part of Group 1 by the group of users (operators) associated with Group 1 is below a predetermined threshold, and the frequency of use of the linked UI part of the extended UI part of Group 2 is above a predetermined threshold. In this case, the generation unit 15a changes the association in the user information 14c for each group of operators from Group 1 to Group 2.

Returning to the explanation of FIG. 1, the display control unit 15b uses the display information 14a and the user information 14c to display to the user the extended UI parts of the group corresponding to the user. For example, the display control unit 15b refers to the GUI part identification information, the display information 14a, and the user information 14c, and displays the specified extended UI parts in groups by superimposing them on the GUI parts displayed on the screen of the user terminal 20 via the communication control unit 13.

Furthermore, when the input execution unit 15c detects an input to a specific extended UI part displayed to the user, the input execution unit 15c refers to the operation rules 14b and executes the user's input to the extended UI part to the target GUI part. Specifically, when the user performs input to a displayed extended UI part on the user terminal 20, the input execution unit 15c detects this via the communication control unit 13. In that case, the input execution unit 15c executes the detected input to the GUI part specified in the operation rules 14b.

In this way, the display control device 10 can display the most suitable extended UI parts for each user by associating the extended UI parts used by each user on a group basis. Furthermore, the display control device 10 can control not to display a group of extended UI parts that the user no longer uses when, for example, the user's role is changed and the extended UI parts used change. Furthermore, the display control device 10 can control to display a group of extended UI parts that was not initially displayed to the user when the user uses a linked UI part.

[Display control process]
6 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a display control process. The flowchart in FIG. 6 is started, for example, when an input is made to instruct the start of the display control process.

First, the generation unit 15a displays all extended UI parts to all users in advance during a predetermined period before the application is operated, and counts the number of times each user uses the extended UI parts of each group (step S1). If the number of times each user uses the extended UI parts of each group during the predetermined period, i.e., the frequency of use, is 0 (step S1, No), the generation unit 15a repeats the process of step S1.

In addition, when the number of times each user uses an extended UI part of each group in a specified period, i.e., the frequency of use, is greater than 0 (step S1, Yes), the generation unit 15a associates the group with the user and generates user information 14c (step S2).

Then, the display control unit 15b refers to the user information 14c and displays the extended UI parts of the group corresponding to the user to the user (step S3). This completes the series of display control processes.

[effect]
As described above, in the display control device 10 of this embodiment, the storage unit 14 stores display information 14a related to the display of each group of extended UI parts of GUI parts constituting a predetermined application. When the number of times that the extended UI parts for each group are used by a user in a predetermined period is greater than 0, the generation unit 15a generates user information 14c that associates the group with the user. The display control unit 15b uses the display information 14a and the user information 14c to display to the user the extended UI parts of the group corresponding to the user.

Here, FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining the effect of the display control process. Conventionally, as shown in FIG. 7(a), groups of extended UI parts were associated with the situation of the department in which the business system was installed, and the same extended UI parts were uniformly displayed to a group of operators who operated the business system. Therefore, when the tasks of each operator were different or when there was a change in role, it required a lot of work to change the extended UI parts displayed each time.

In contrast, according to the display control device 10 of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7(b), groups of extended UI parts to be displayed are associated based on the usage status of the operator, so that it is possible to easily respond to changes in business processes and roles, etc. In this way, according to the display control device 10, it is possible to easily control the display of extended UIs on a group basis for operators.

Furthermore, when the number of times that a user has used an extended UI part for each group in a predetermined period is 0, the generation unit 15a deletes the association between the user and the group from the user information 14c. This enables the display control device 10 to control not to display a group of extended UI parts that the user no longer uses, for example, when the user's role changes and the extended UI parts used change.

Furthermore, the generation unit 15a refers to the display information 14a, and when the number of times that a user uses a GUI part that is the target of the extended UI part, i.e., a linked UI part, in a predetermined period of time is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, the generation unit 15a associates the user with a group to which the extended UI part belongs and adds the user to the user information 14c. This enables the display control device 10 to control the display of a group of extended UI parts that are not displayed to the user, for example, when the user's role is changed and the extended UI parts used are changed.

Furthermore, when the number of times that all users associated with each group in the user information 14c use the extended UI parts of the group in a predetermined period is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, and the number of times that all users use the GUI parts that are the operation targets of the extended UI parts of another group is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, the generation unit 15a changes the user information 14c so that all the users are associated with the other group. This makes it possible to easily change the group of extended UI parts to be displayed, for example, when the roles of users are changed collectively.

[program]
A program in which the process executed by the display control device 10 according to the above embodiment is written in a language executable by a computer can also be created. As an embodiment, the display control device 10 can be implemented by installing a display control program that executes the above display control process as package software or online software on a desired computer. For example, the above display control program can be executed by an information processing device, causing the information processing device to function as the display control device 10. The information processing device here includes desktop or notebook personal computers. In addition, the information processing device also includes mobile communication terminals such as smartphones, mobile phones, and PHS (Personal Handyphone Systems), as well as slate terminals such as PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). The functions of the display control device 10 may also be implemented on a cloud server.

Figure 8 is a diagram showing an example of a computer that executes a display control program. The computer 1000 has, for example, a memory 1010, a CPU 1020, a hard disk drive interface 1030, a disk drive interface 1040, a serial port interface 1050, a video adapter 1060, and a network interface 1070. These components are connected by a bus 1080.

The memory 1010 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory) 1011 and a RAM 1012. The ROM 1011 stores a boot program such as a BIOS (Basic Input Output System). The hard disk drive interface 1030 is connected to a hard disk drive 1031. The disk drive interface 1040 is connected to a disk drive 1041. A removable storage medium such as a magnetic disk or optical disk is inserted into the disk drive 1041. The serial port interface 1050 is connected to a mouse 1051 and a keyboard 1052, for example. The video adapter 1060 is connected to a display 1061, for example.

Here, the hard disk drive 1031 stores, for example, an OS 1091, an application program 1092, a program module 1093, and program data 1094. Each piece of information described in the above embodiment is stored, for example, in the hard disk drive 1031 or memory 1010.

The display control program is stored in the hard disk drive 1031, for example, as a program module 1093 in which instructions to be executed by the computer 1000 are written. Specifically, the program module 1093 in which each process executed by the display control device 10 described in the above embodiment is written is stored in the hard disk drive 1031.

In addition, data used for information processing by the display control program is stored as program data 1094, for example, in the hard disk drive 1031. Then, the CPU 1020 reads the program module 1093 and the program data 1094 stored in the hard disk drive 1031 into the RAM 1012 as necessary, and executes each of the above-mentioned procedures.

In addition, the program module 1093 and program data 1094 related to the display control program are not limited to being stored in the hard disk drive 1031, and may be stored in, for example, a removable storage medium and read by the CPU 1020 via the disk drive 1041 or the like. Alternatively, the program module 1093 and program data 1094 related to the display control program may be stored in another computer connected via a network such as a LAN (Local Area Network) or a WAN (Wide Area Network), and read by the CPU 1020 via the network interface 1070.

The above describes an embodiment of the invention made by the inventor, but the present invention is not limited to the description and drawings that form part of the disclosure of the present invention according to this embodiment. In other words, other embodiments, examples, operational techniques, etc. made by those skilled in the art based on this embodiment are all included in the scope of the present invention.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 10 Display control device 11 Input unit 12 Output unit 13 Communication control unit 14 Storage unit 14a Display information 14b Operation rules 14c User information 15 Control unit 15a Generation unit 15b Display control unit 15c Input execution unit 20 User terminal

Claims (6)

A storage unit that stores display information regarding the display of each group of extended UI parts of GUI parts that constitute a predetermined application;
a generation unit that generates user information that associates the group with the user when the number of times the extended UI component for each group has been used by the user in a predetermined period is greater than 0;
a display control unit that displays, to a user, an extended UI part of a group corresponding to the user, using the display information and the user information;
A display control device comprising: The display control device according to claim 1, characterized in that the generation unit deletes the association between the user and the group from the user information when the number of times the extended UI parts for each group have been used by the user in a specified period is zero. The display control device according to claim 1, characterized in that the generation unit refers to the display information, and when the number of times a user uses a GUI part that is the target of the extended UI part in a specified period of time is equal to or greater than a specified threshold, the generation unit associates the user with a group to which the extended UI part belongs and adds the associated user to the user information. The display control device according to claim 1, characterized in that the generation unit changes the user information so as to associate all users with each group in the user information when the number of times that the extended UI part of the group is used by all users in a specified period of time is less than or equal to a specified threshold, and the number of times that the GUI part that is the target of the extended UI part of another group is used by all users is greater than or equal to a specified threshold. A display control method executed by a display control device, comprising:
the display control device has a storage unit configured to store display information related to display of each group of extended UI parts of GUI parts constituting a predetermined application;
a generating step of generating user information that associates the group with the user when the number of times the extended UI component for each group has been used by the user in a predetermined period is greater than 0;
a display control step of displaying, to a user, an extended UI part of a group corresponding to the user, using the display information and the user information;
A display control method comprising: Refer to a storage unit that stores display information regarding the display of each group of extended UI parts of GUI parts that constitute a specific application;
a generating step of generating user information that associates the group with the user when the number of times the extended UI component for each group has been used by the user in a predetermined period is greater than 0;
a display control step of displaying, to a user, an extended UI part of a group corresponding to the user, using the display information and the user information;
A display control program for causing a computer to execute the above.

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