AI Avatar for Privacy-Preserving Mental Response Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for handling and processing personal data, especially in biomedical research and personalized medicine, struggle to efficiently incorporate and protect mental response characteristics such as moral attitudes, opinions, and ethical principles, making it difficult to access and manage sensitive information while ensuring privacy and compliance with ethical standards.
Innovation Solution
An avatar apparatus utilizing AI processors for machine learning to simulate and represent individual mental response characteristics, including moral attitudes and opinions, through semantic answers, with storage devices for data management and input/output devices for interaction, enabling secure and efficient digital representation of persons.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If anonymisation or pseudo-anonymisation is used to protect sensitive data, then privacy protection is improved, but the ability to survey persons at a later point in time deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an avatar as an intermediary digital representation that mediates between the real person and the data processing system. The avatar contains the person's mental response characteristics and can be surveyed without compromising the person's privacy, while still enabling future research queries. The avatar acts as a proxy that preserves both privacy protection and research accessibility.
2Measurement precision
If direct contact with persons is maintained for data collection, then accuracy of mental response characteristics is improved, but time consumption and cost deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by collecting and storing the person's mental response characteristics in advance during an initial training phase. This pre-collected data is then stored in the avatar, eliminating the need for repeated direct contact with the person for subsequent research queries. The preliminary data collection enables future time-efficient processing while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a digital copy (avatar) of the person's mental response characteristics. Instead of repeatedly contacting the actual person, researchers can query the copied avatar, which contains replicated psychological and ethical response patterns. This copying approach maintains measurement accuracy while dramatically reducing time and resource requirements.
3Ease of manufacture
If conventional data processing methods are used, then simplicity of implementation is improved, but processing speed and efficiency of personal data deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces conventional mechanical data processing methods with an AI-based avatar system. Instead of manually processing personal data through complex consent management and direct person contact, the system uses machine learning models embedded in avatars to automatically process queries. This substitution maintains implementation feasibility while dramatically improving processing speed and efficiency.
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AI summary
An avatar apparatus that is adapted to represent a person and to process personal data of the person comprises an AI processor device that is adapted for machine learning of individual mental response characteristics of the person by way of data training, wherein the AI processor device is configured to generate semantic answers in response to questions in a manner dependent on the mental response characteristics, a first storage device that is coupled to the AI processor device and is adapted to store the mental response characteristics of the person, an input device that is coupled to the AI processor device and is adapted to interact with the person and/or to receive questions relating to the person, and an output device that is configured to output signals that represent the answers generated by the AI processor device. An avatar system with multiple avatar apparatuses, uses of the avatar apparatus, and an avatar method for operating the avatar apparatus, are also described.