Adaptive Information Presentation Device for Multi-Level User Comprehension

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional information presentation methods fail to effectively adapt to the varying knowledge levels and language abilities of multiple users, resulting in inadequate understanding among users with different levels.

Innovation Solution

An information presentation device that identifies user levels based on age, knowledge, and language ability, and converts presentation information accordingly for each user through character display or voice output, allowing for tailored presentation methods to ensure easy understanding across multiple users.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If information is presented according to the lowest knowledge level among multiple users, then all users can understand the information, but the information cannot be presented according to respective levels

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomprehensibility for all usersVSAvoidadaptation to individual user levels
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the user group into multiple individuals with different knowledge levels, and segments the information presentation into multiple versions tailored to each user's level. The system identifies each user's knowledge level and provides customized information presentations, thereby resolving the contradiction between universal comprehensibility and individual adaptation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by providing different information presentation qualities to different users based on their individual knowledge levels. Each user receives information adapted to their specific needs, with higher knowledge level users receiving more complex/detailed information and lower knowledge level users receiving simplified information, thus achieving both individual optimization and group coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of operation

If information is converted to simpler terms for lower knowledge level users, then easy understanding is achieved for those users, but information complexity is reduced for higher level users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of understanding for low level usersVSAvoidinformation complexity for high level users
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameter of information complexity based on the user's knowledge level. The system adjusts vocabulary difficulty, sentence structure, and information depth according to each user's identified knowledge level, thereby providing appropriately complex information to high-level users while ensuring ease of understanding for low-level users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11495209B2Information presentation device, and information presentation method
Publication Date: 2022.11.08 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

There is provided an information presentation device that is configured to present information, to a plurality of users that differ in level, in such a manner that each of the users can easily understand the information, and an information presentation method. The information presentation device includes: an identification unit that identifies respective levels of one or more users; an obtaining unit that obtains presentation information to be presented to the users; a conversion unit that appropriately converts the obtained presentation information according to the level of each user; and a presentation unit that presents the appropriately converted presentation information to each user. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a robot, a signage device, a car navigation device, and the like.