Collaboration Interface for Group Decision-Making
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Solution Overview
Problem
Group decision-making processes, especially in online electronic communication mediums, are often complicated by indecisiveness, conflicting schedules, and differences of opinion, leading to confusion and inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
A collaboration system that uses natural language processing (NLP) to predict user intent based on message analysis, providing collaboration interfaces for users to select attribute values for tasks associated with the intent, and executing these tasks to facilitate decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If group members communicate through traditional electronic communication mediums (group chat, email, video conference), then users can exchange information and opinions, but the decision-making process becomes complicated and time-consuming due to multiple back-and-forth messages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a collaboration interface that acts as an intermediary between group members during decision-making. This interface captures user inputs, options, and decisions in a structured format, eliminating the need for multiple back-and-forth messages while preserving all information exchanges. The structured data format ensures that no information is lost during communication.
2Adaptability or versatility
If group members use traditional communication mediums to coordinate decisions, then users can express their preferences and opinions, but the process becomes unwieldy and confusing especially in large groups
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the decision-making process into distinct components: user inputs, options, decisions, and structured data formats. Each component is handled separately through the collaboration interface, which processes and organizes them systematically. This segmentation reduces the complexity of group coordination while maintaining users' ability to express preferences and opinions.
3Reliability
If users provide detailed information about their preferences and constraints, then the system can make better decisions, but the amount of information exchange and communication required increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of information representation from unstructured text messages to structured data formats. Users provide detailed preferences and constraints, but these are captured in a standardized structure that reduces redundant communication. The structured format allows the system to process comprehensive information efficiently without requiring proportional increases in communication volume.
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AI summary
A collaboration system provides a collaboration interface for display to interacting users. The collaboration system analyzes messages among a group of users to determine an intent of the group to collaborate. When an intent is assigned to a set of messages, the collaboration system generates collaboration interfaces to prompt each of the users to select their preferred values for attributes of the collaboration, such as a meeting location, time, and date. The user selections are recorded in a collaboration data object which is monitored for matching selections. When multiple users have selection the same values for attributes of the collaboration the collaboration data object is locked from further changes and the collaboration system executes tasks to resolve the intent such as booking tickets, making reservations, and providing confirmation messages to the collaborating users.