Concurrent Interaction Notifications for Social Feed Redundancy
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Solution Overview
Problem
In conventional social network feeds, users are often unaware of others interacting with the same feed item, leading to inefficiencies and redundancy, as seen in the example where Pham and Anna both worked on responses to Zed's post without knowing the other was doing the same, resulting in delayed responses and productivity bottlenecks.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that generates electronic notifications to users when others are concurrently interacting with the same feed item, such as viewing or typing a response, allowing users to assume others are engaged and adjust their actions accordingly, thereby preventing redundant efforts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users interact with feed items independently without notifications, then each user can work at their own pace, but redundant efforts occur and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by sending notifications to users when other users are concurrently interacting with the same feed item. This feedback loop allows users to adjust their actions based on real-time awareness of others' activities, eliminating redundant efforts and improving team productivity.
2Loss of time
If users work on responses simultaneously without awareness, then response time may be reduced, but redundant work occurs causing bottlenecks
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system provides real-time feedback to users about concurrent interactions, enabling them to coordinate their efforts. This allows the team to maintain fast response times while avoiding redundant work that would create bottlenecks, thus improving overall productivity.
3Productivity
If the system monitors and notifies all concurrent interactions, then productivity improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses self-service by having user devices automatically monitor and report their own interaction states with feed items. Each device independently tracks when its user is viewing or typing a response and communicates this state to the server, eliminating the need for complex centralized monitoring infrastructure.
4Measurement precision
If the system tracks interaction states in real-time, then notification accuracy improves, but data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential interaction state information (viewing and typing states) from user activities and transmits this extracted data to the server. By focusing on extracting only the critical state changes rather than monitoring all user actions, the system achieves accurate notification while minimizing data processing requirements.
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AI summary
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing electronic notifications that users are concurrently interacting with the same feed item of a social network feed. In some implementations, first data from a first user system can identify a first feed item of the feed as one with which a first user is interacting. It can be determined that a second user using a second user system is concurrently interacting with the first feed item. Based on the determinations, a notification can be sent to one or both user systems. The notification can include data indicating that the first and second users are concurrently interacting with the first feed item.