Controlling notification delivery and control access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current connected cooking appliances provide notifications and controls indiscriminately, regardless of user location or activity, leading to awkward user experiences and inefficient resource usage.
Innovation Solution
An adaptive method and apparatus that determine notification delivery and control access schemes based on user location, activity, and interaction, using predefined rules and sensor data to optimize salience and accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If notifications and controls are provided indiscriminately regardless of user location or activity, then all users receive all notifications and controls, but user experience becomes awkward and resource usage becomes inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by customizing notification delivery and control access based on individual user context (location, activity, interaction state). Each user receives notifications and controls tailored to their specific situation rather than a uniform approach, improving ease of operation while reducing unnecessary resource consumption from irrelevant notifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts notification delivery schemes and control access schemes based on real-time user context data. The delivery scheme changes depending on user location, activity type, and interaction state, making the system adaptive rather than static, thereby optimizing both user experience and resource efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users must monitor cooking status through smartphones when next to the appliance, then remote monitoring is enabled, but the interaction becomes awkward and unnecessary
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically determines the appropriate delivery destination for notifications based on real-time user context. When a user is detected to be physically present at the appliance (through location or interaction data), the system directs notifications to the appliance's local display rather than the smartphone, eliminating awkward remote monitoring while preserving remote capability when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary decision-making layer that routes notifications appropriately between the appliance display and smartphone based on user context. This intermediary logic analyzes user location and activity data to determine the most appropriate delivery channel, resolving the contradiction between remote monitoring capability and local monitoring convenience.
3Device complexity
If notifications are provided without considering user context or location, then simple delivery mechanisms can be used, but the system lacks adaptability to different user situations
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves context-awareness through dynamic determination of delivery schemes based on user data. The complexity is managed by implementing adaptive logic that processes user context information (location, activity, interaction state) to automatically select appropriate notification channels, making the system versatile without requiring overly complex manual configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from user context data (location, activity, interaction state) to continuously adjust notification delivery behavior. This feedback loop enables the system to adapt to different user situations automatically, achieving high adaptability through data-driven decision-making rather than complex predefined rules.
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AI summary
There is provided a computer-implemented method for controlling an apparatus wirelessly connected to one or more external devices, the method comprising: acquiring (102) data associated with a current location of each of one or more users and data associated with an activity being performed by each of the one or more users; determining (104) at least one of a delivery scheme for delivering a notification at one or more destinations and an access scheme for providing control access of the apparatus, based on the data associated with the current location of each of the one or more users, the data associated with the activity being performed by each of the one or more users, and a context of the notification.