Method and system for context-driven displaying of shortcuts on touchscreen

A computer system for controlling a touchscreen which includes a graphical display and a touch sensor, the computer system including:

• a processor;
• the touchscreen, coupled to the processor;
• and
• a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions executable by the processor to direct the computer system to:
• determine a user context by way of a user context determination module;
• predict, based on the user context, which one or more user interface objects the user is likely to interact a probability of the user interacting with one or more user interface objects in relation to an application currently running on the computer system, the probability changing dynamically at least based on frequency of use of the one or more user interface objects;
• based on the predicting, select, using an icon selection module, one or more user interface objects which are contextually relevant to the context of the user;
• and
• display the one or more user interface objects selected by the icon selection module using the graphical display of the touchscreen,
• wherein the one or more user interface objects, which are displayed, change dynamically based on the application running on the computer system and the user context,
• wherein a position and size of the one or more user interface objects change dynamically based on the probability.

A computer program product for controlling a computer system which includes a processor and a touchscreen which includes a graphical display and a touch sensor, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium having program instructions stored thereon which are executable by the processor of the computer system to enable the processor to:

• determine a user context by way of a user context determination module;
• predict, based on the user context, a probability of the user interacting with one or more user interface objects in relation to an application running on the computer system, the probability changing dynamically at least based on frequency of use of the one or more user interface objects;
• based on the predicting, select, using an icon selection module, one or more user interface objects which are contextually relevant to the user context;
• and
• display the one or more selected user interface objects on the graphical display of the touchscreen,
• wherein the one or more user interface objects, which are displayed, change dynamically based on the application running on the computer system and the user context,
• wherein a position and size of the one or more user interface objects change dynamically based on the probability.