Rectangular Display with Delayed/Highlighted Letters
This design will take a typical keyboard layout and either highlight the likely following characters as determined by an autocomplete form or fade them in based upon likelihood of being chosen.
For instance, if Billy is searching for “Pirate’s of the Caribbean” and has typed “Pir” into the search form, the next most likely letter will be “a” (the results from the autocomplete of “Pir” are shown below). Therefore, our keyboard will have the letter “a” highlighted with green.
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1. This will be the layout of the keyboard when Billy opens up the search. The top box will be where the words that Billy types appear, and the current letter choice is highlighted by a blue background. Since Billy wants to search for Pirates of the Caribbean, he will use the direction pad to move the blue highlighted box over to P. |
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2. Now, Billy will press the select button to choose the letter P. |
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3. Once Billy chooses “P” the letter P will appear in the text box at the top, and the keyboard will switch to lower case letters. Billy will now move the selection to “i” and choose the next letter. |
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4. Next Billy will move the cursor to “r” and select the next letter. |
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5. Once Billy chose “r”, the autocomplete form will appear with the top choices pulled from Netflix’s autocomplete menu. Also, as is shown above, the letter “a” will be highlighted yellow because it is the most likely letter to be chosen next after “Pir” is typed into the search bar. Billy can move the blue box down to “Pirate’s of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and press select to choose it as the movie to watch. |
