A method for user interaction in a CAE/CAD system comprises displaying to a user a graphical user interface (2) with a model display region (3) and a control region (5) for controlling operation of the CAE/CAD system, and an accept button (9). The accept button (9) can be in an active state, signifying that the CAE/CAD system is ready to perform operations defined by user input when the accept button (9) is clicked.

When the accept button (9) is in the active state, the CAE/CAD system graphically indicates to the user an extended apply region (11) which, when a clicking operation takes place inside it, will cause the CAE/CAD system to perform the same operations as when the accept button (9) is clicked.

An electronic device with a touch screen display displays content of an electronic document, including text, and a cursor is displayed at a line of text within the electronic document. A multi-finger swipe gesture is detected, and in accordance with a determination that the multi-finger swipe gesture is in a direction at least partially parallel to the line of text and towards an edge of the touch screen display, the cursor is moved to a distal point of the text.

An electronic device with a touch screen display displays content of an electronic document, including text, and a cursor is displayed at a line of text within the electronic document. A multi-finger swipe gesture is detected, and in accordance with a determination that the multi-finger swipe gesture is in a direction at least partially parallel to the line of text and towards an edge of the touch screen display, the cursor is moved to a distal point of the text.

A system and method for actuating a critical aircraft system via a virtual guarded switch includes a touchscreen-based Virtual Guarded Switch (VGS) used to replace physical guarded switches. Aircraft systems display the VGS on traditional touch screen displays either via pilot selection or automatically as a result of an abnormal condition. The VGS maintains protection against inadvertent touchscreen activation while remaining familiar, quick, and easy to understand and use.

A method, system and/or computer usable program product for automatically managing the conveying of messages among multiple communication channels including (i) receiving, from a first computing system, an on-line message addressed to a user, (ii) automatically categorizing the message among a predetermined set of message categories stored in memory, (iii) identifying a set of on-line message channels preselected by the addressee user for receiving messages for each of the predetermined set of message categories, (iv) identifying a set of performance metrics stored in memory for optimizing message channel selection, (v) utilizing the performance metrics to automatically select an optimum message channel from the preselected message channels for sending the categorized message to a second computing system of the addressee user, (vi) automatically formatting the categorized message for the optimum message channel, and (vii) sending the formatted message on-line to the second computing system of the addressee user across the optimum message channel.

A computer-implemented method includes receiving instructions to display contents containing multiple items, and calculating a number of pages in which the multiple items are divided. The method further includes creating several user interface elements, each user interface element assigned to a page. The method further includes determining a range information of each page, wherein the range information of the page indicates a start and end of a range of the items included on the page. The method further includes, for each of the user interface elements, adding the range information of the page assigned to the user interface element, and displaying the user interface elements with respective range information.

A computer-implemented method includes receiving instructions to display contents containing multiple items, and calculating a number of pages in which the multiple items are divided. The method further includes creating several user interface elements, each user interface element assigned to a page. The method further includes determining a range information of each page, wherein the range information of the page indicates a start and end of a range of the items included on the page. The method further includes, for each of the user interface elements, adding the range information of the page assigned to the user interface element, and displaying the user interface elements with respective range information.

A display apparatus includes a display; a communicator configured to communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses, which respectively provide a plurality of contents; and a processor. The processor is configured to: based on receiving information relating to contents among the plurality of contents from external apparatuses, respectively, through the communicator, identify the external apparatuses that transmitted the information, among the plurality of external apparatuses, control the display to display a UI including the contents respectively received from the identified external apparatuses, and control the display to display, on the UI, reproduction states of the contents to be visually distinguishable according to states of inputs of users of the received contents, the inputs being received through the identified external apparatuses, respectively.

A display apparatus includes a display; a communicator configured to communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses, which respectively provide a plurality of contents; and a processor. The processor is configured to: based on receiving information relating to contents among the plurality of contents from external apparatuses, respectively, through the communicator, identify the external apparatuses that transmitted the information, among the plurality of external apparatuses, control the display to display a UI including the contents respectively received from the identified external apparatuses, and control the display to display, on the UI, reproduction states of the contents to be visually distinguishable according to states of inputs of users of the received contents, the inputs being received through the identified external apparatuses, respectively.

Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for tailoring composite graphical assistant interfaces for interacting with multiple different connected devices. The composite graphical assistant interfaces can be generated in response to a user providing a request for an automated assistant to cause a connected device to perform a particular function. In response to the automated assistant receiving the request, the automated assistant can identify other connected devices, and other functions capable of being performed by the other connected devices. The other functions can then be mapped to various graphical control elements in order to provide a composite graphical assistant interface from which the user can interact with different connected devices. Each graphical control element can be arranged to reflect how each connected device is operating simultaneous to the presentation of the composite graphical assistant interface.