Chat Tempo Regulation via Emotion and Timing Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Group chat applications lack the ability to infer the appropriate tempo of conversations, making it difficult for participants to detect when rapid or measured responses are needed, as cues from face-to-face or video conferencing are not easily determinable.

Innovation Solution

A system that analyzes chat messages to determine topics, emotive content, and time deltas to calculate the tempo of the conversation and suggests tempo adjustments, which can be indicated to participants' client devices, allowing for automatic regulation of the discourse tempo.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If chat applications allow real-time communication without tempo regulation, then communication speed and responsiveness are improved, but participants cannot detect when rapid or measured responses are needed, leading to inappropriate discourse tempo

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication speedVSAvoidtempo detection difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary component that analyzes chat messages and calculates discourse tempo, acting as a mediator between participants to provide tempo guidance without directly controlling the communication flow

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by providing tempo information to participants based on analysis of their chat messages, allowing them to adjust their response timing based on the calculated tempo and emotional tone of the conversation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If the system analyzes chat messages to determine tempo and provide regulations, then discourse quality and appropriateness are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvediscourse appropriatenessVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing chat messages, determining emotional tone, calculating tempo, and generating regulations without requiring external intervention or complex manual configuration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces manual tempo judgment with automated computational analysis of chat messages, using algorithms to detect emotional tone and calculate discourse tempo instead of human perception

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Speed

If tempo regulation is implemented through message delay, then discourse tempo control is improved, but communication efficiency may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetempo control precisionVSAvoidcommunication efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies dynamic tempo regulation by adjusting message delay based on the calculated discourse tempo and emotional tone, making the regulation adaptive rather than fixed to maintain communication efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11157701B2Regulating velocity of chat discourse

Publication Date: 2021.10.26 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

Regulating velocity of chat discourse can include determining, using computer hardware, a topic and emotive content from a plurality of chat messages of a group chat, determining, using the computer hardware, time deltas between different ones of the plurality of chat messages, determining, using the computer hardware, a tempo and a tempo adjustment for the group chat based on the topic, the emotive content, and the time deltas, and indicating, using the computer hardware, the tempo adjustment to a client device of a participant in the group chat.