Context-Aware Badge Display for Online Communities
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online community gamification systems dilute the significance of user badges by displaying all badges across multiple communities, leading to visual clutter and reduced recognition of relevant badges, as well as failing to account for relationships between communities.
Innovation Solution
Implementing context-aware badge display techniques that identify and display only badges relevant to the specific online community and its related communities based on a hierarchy, allowing for customizable display rules that adapt to different contexts and community relationships.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all badges are displayed across multiple communities, then complete user achievement history is shown, but badge significance is diluted and visual clutter increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display of badges by organizing them according to community hierarchy. Instead of displaying all badges uniformly, the system divides badges into groups based on their associated communities and the hierarchical relationship between those communities. This segmentation allows relevant badges to be displayed while excluding unrelated ones, thus maintaining information completeness for relevant contexts while reducing visual clutter.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by making the badge display context-dependent. Different displays are provided for different online communities based on their hierarchical relationships. The system evaluates the specific context (which community the user is currently in) and selectively displays badges that are relevant to that local context, rather than applying a uniform display rule across all communities.
2Adaptability or versatility
If badges from multiple communities are displayed, then comprehensive user participation is recognized, but relevance of displayed badges to current community is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic badge display rules that adapt based on the hierarchical relationship between communities. The system dynamically determines which badges to display by evaluating the current community context and the hierarchical paths between communities. This dynamic approach allows the display to be flexible and adaptive to different situations while maintaining context relevance through the hierarchy-based filtering mechanism.
3Quantity of substance
If site-level gamification displays all badges, then complete user achievement history is visible, but badge meaning is diluted across unrelated communities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing a hierarchy of online communities before the badge display process. This hierarchy structure is created in advance and used to guide the selective display of badges. By having the hierarchy predetermined, the system can efficiently determine which badges are relevant to the current context without needing to analyze relationships in real-time, thus maintaining both quantity control and context preservation.
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AI summary
Systems and techniques that provide context-aware badge display in online communities are disclosed. Badges are identified for display based on the contexts of the online interfaces in which the badges will be displayed. When the badges awarded to a user are to be displayed in a particular online interface, the online community of that online interface is identified and used to display appropriate badges. Badges awarded to the user in the particular online community of the online interface and one or more related online communities are displayed. The related communities are identified based on a hierarchy of communities that identifies relationships between the online communities. Badges can be displayed using different display rules that can be changed over time and vary for different online communities.