Real-Time Communication Feedback via Evaluation Item Association

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication evaluation systems lack effective methods to provide real-time feedback on user behavior during one-on-one meetings, hindering the improvement of communication skills.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that displays evaluation items indicating user comment evaluations in association with character strings, allowing for real-time feedback and improved communication skills through enhanced reflection and skill enhancement processes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If real-time feedback is provided during communication, then communication skills improvement is enhanced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication skills improvement efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements real-time feedback by displaying evaluation items (such as smile, nod, listening skill, acknowledgement skill, and questioning skill) alongside the character strings of comments during communication. This allows users to immediately see how their communication behavior is being evaluated, enabling continuous improvement without requiring complex post-communication analysis systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary evaluation display mechanism that mediates between the user's communication actions and the evaluation results. Instead of directly complex processing, the system uses visual display of evaluation items as an intermediary layer, making the feedback process simpler and more intuitive while maintaining effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If detailed evaluation items are displayed with each comment, then user satisfaction with evaluation increases, but information processing load increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser satisfaction with evaluationVSAvoidinformation processing load
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The evaluation system segments the overall evaluation into multiple discrete evaluation items (smile, nod, listening skill, acknowledgement skill, questioning skill), each displayed independently alongside relevant character strings. This segmentation allows detailed feedback without overwhelming the system, as each item can be processed and displayed independently rather than as one large monolithic evaluation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the evaluation items with the character strings of comments in the display interface, so that evaluation information and communication content are shown together in an integrated view. This combining reduces the need for separate information processing streams and minimizes the overall information processing load while maintaining detailed evaluation visibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20250077772A1Information processing apparatus and non-transitory recording medium
Publication Date: 2025.03.06 RICOH CO LTD
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to display, on a display, an evaluation item indicating an evaluation of a comment of a user in association with a character string of the comment.