Wearable Biometric Sensor Gameplay Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming technologies fail to effectively adjust gameplay in real-time based on biometric data from wearable sensors to maintain player biometrics within safe and preferred ranges, leading to potential health risks during gaming sessions.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize a gaming computer to receive and analyze real-time biometric data from wearable sensors, correlate it with game stages, and apply corrective actions retrieved from a central biometric data store to adjust the game environment, ensuring biometric data remains within player-defined thresholds and preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time biometric monitoring and dynamic gameplay adjustment are implemented, then player health and safety are improved, but system complexity and computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the gameplay adjustment process into distinct components: biometric data collection from wearable sensors, real-time data processing and analysis, corrective action generation, and game environment modification. This modular segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system reliability for player health monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where biometric sensor data is constantly monitored, compared against safe ranges, and used to trigger corrective actions that adjust gameplay parameters. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures player health and safety are maintained through real-time adjustments without requiring complete system redesign.
2Reliability
If continuous biometric data processing and real-time gameplay adjustment are performed, then player biometrics are maintained within safe ranges, but computational energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system processes biometric data continuously but only triggers full gameplay adjustments when biometric thresholds are exceeded. During normal gameplay within safe ranges, minimal processing is performed, reducing computational energy consumption while maintaining reliable biometric threshold maintenance through selective intensive processing only when necessary.
3Adaptability or versatility
If corrective actions are dynamically generated and applied based on biometric data, then gameplay adaptability is improved, but processing time and response delay increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes corrective action protocols and gameplay adjustment parameters before biometric threshold violations occur. When thresholds are exceeded, pre-defined corrective actions are immediately applied based on the type and severity of violation, enabling rapid gameplay adaptability without extensive real-time processing delays.
Data Source
AI summary
Using real-time biometrics of a player during play of a game through a gaming computer to maintain player biometrics within acceptable ranges. When real-time biometric sensor data for a player has fallen out of range of the player biometric thresholds and preferences specific to the player, a query is sent to a central biometric data store to retrieve at least one corrective action which was most effective for other players who exceeded player biometric thresholds and preferences in a same stage of the game being played. At least one corrective action from the query is received and evaluated to determine what corrective action should be taken. A notification is sent to and corrective action applied to the game, such that the corrective action alters the game for the player to return the real-time biometric sensor data of the player to within the range of the player biometric thresholds and preferences.