Act Propagation Tracking System for Kindness Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The propagation of acts of kindness is not visible, making it impossible to track how much influence such acts have on individuals or society, and whether they return to the original performer.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that acquires and accumulates act information, including the performer, influenced users, and act types, and records associations between acts that have influenced each other, allowing for the tracking and visualization of act propagation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If act information is accumulated and associations are recorded to track propagation, then visibility and measurability of act propagation is improved, but device complexity and data management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments act information into distinct components: performer information, recipient information, act type, and timing data. Each act is recorded as a separate data unit that can be independently processed and associated with others through the control unit's analysis of influence relationships between different acts.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit implements feedback by analyzing accumulated act information to determine influence relationships between acts. When a second act is found to have influenced a first act, the system records this association, creating a feedback loop that makes propagation visible and measurable while managing complexity through automated analysis.
2Measurement precision
If detailed act information is accumulated to enable tracking, then measurement precision of act influence is improved, but data storage requirements and processing load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit extracts only the essential elements needed for measuring act influence: the performer, recipient, act type, and timing information. By focusing on these key data points and their associations rather than storing all possible details about each act, the system achieves measurement precision while managing data quantity.
Solution Approach 2:
The accumulation unit pre-organizes act information in a structured format with clear fields for performer, recipient, act type, and timing. This preliminary structuring enables the control unit to efficiently analyze influence relationships without requiring complex processing of unstructured data, reducing processing load while maintaining measurement precision.
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AI summary
There is provided an information processing system that includes a communication unit that acquires act information indicating occurrence of a first act from a first user to a second user, an accumulation unit that accumulates at least a user who has performed the act, a user influenced by the act, and a type of the act in units of acts in order of occurrence of the acts, and a control unit that performs control, when a second act determined to have influenced the first act is found from among acts that are accumulated in the accumulation unit and from which the first user has received influence in past, to record the first act and the second act in association with each other in the accumulation unit.