Biosignal User State Notifications for Non-Textual Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication methods, such as text messages, often fail to convey the depth of emotion and intimacy desired in user interactions, leading to overwhelming and inauthentic exchanges that can negatively impact user experience.
Innovation Solution
A user state system that utilizes biosignal and circumstantial data to determine a user's emotional and physical state, generating notifications with haptic patterns and allowing for non-textual mood-centric communication, including state representations and response options, to maintain relationship closeness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If text messages are used for communication, then users can exchange information, but the communication becomes overly brief and inauthentic, failing to convey emotional depth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that automatically generates visual representations (avatars, animations, images) based on biosignal data to mediate between the user's internal emotional state and the external communication channel. This intermediary translates complex emotional information into visual forms that can be transmitted through simple text message interfaces, resolving the contradiction by preserving emotional information while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual text composition with an automated visual generation system driven by biosensors and algorithms. Instead of users manually crafting text messages to convey emotions, the system automatically generates visual representations based on physiological data, substituting the manual writing process with an automated sensing and generation process that preserves emotional authenticity while simplifying user interaction.
2Loss of information
If users craft thoughtful messages to strengthen relationships, then communication depth improves, but it requires too much time and effort from users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling the communication system to automatically generate and send visual messages based on biosignal data without requiring manual user input for message composition. The system serves itself by translating physiological states into communicative visual representations autonomously, preserving emotional authenticity while eliminating the time investment traditionally required for crafting thoughtful messages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by continuously monitoring and analyzing biosignal data in advance to prepare visual representations before communication is needed. The system proactively generates emotional state visualizations based on physiological data, so that when communication occurs, the emotional information is already prepared and ready for transmission, eliminating the need for last-minute message composition while maintaining emotional authenticity.
3Reliability
If users send frequent or lengthy text messages to maintain closeness, then relationship connection improves, but it overwhelms the recipient and negatively affects user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential emotional state information from complex physiological data and represents it through simplified visual avatars or icons. By taking out only the most relevant emotional information and presenting it in a compact visual form, the system maintains relationship connection through meaningful emotional sharing while avoiding the overwhelm that comes with frequent or lengthy text messages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses color changes and visual transformations in avatar representations to convey emotional states. Different colors, expressions, or visual states of avatars communicate complex emotional information at a glance, allowing recipients to understand the sender's emotional state without reading lengthy messages, thereby maintaining relationship connection while preventing user overwhelm through concise visual communication.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and a system include receiving a first signal value generated by a biosignal sensor coupled to the first client device, receiving one or more second signal values corresponding to a respective sensor reading or environmental condition associated with the first client device, determining a total score based on a first score and one or more second scores determined based on the first and the one or more second signal values, selecting a first state of the plurality of states based on a ranking of total scores of the plurality of states, and causing a display of a first notification associated with a first user-selectable element corresponding to the first state on the first client device.