Contextual Media Presentation System for Experience-Aligned Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current computerized recommendation systems for media content are limited to providing recommendations based on user preferences and do not account for planned or completed user experiences, lacking an automatic sorting mechanism to present media content in a temporal sequence that enhances user experiences.
Innovation Solution
A contextual media presentation system that receives and processes user experiences to select and sort media files relevant to those experiences, allowing for automatic playback in a sequence that aligns with the user's planned or completed activities, such as a theme park visit, enhancing the recall or anticipation of experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If media content recommendations are based on user preferences and manual sorting, then the system is simple to operate, but the system cannot provide contextually relevant content based on user experiences
Solution Approach 1:
The system receives and stores user experiences (both planned and completed) in advance, creating a contextual database that enables later retrieval and matching of media content to specific user experiences without requiring complex real-time processing
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that matches media content to user experiences based on contextual parameters, acting as a mediator between the user's experience data and the media content database without requiring direct user intervention
2Ease of operation
If manual sorting of media content is required, then the system is easier to understand, but the user must manually organize content according to their experiences
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic sorting of media content based on user experiences without requiring manual user input. The system self-organizes the media files into a sorted list that corresponds to the temporal sequence of user experiences, eliminating the need for manual sorting while maintaining simplicity for the user
3Productivity
If media content is presented without temporal sequencing, then the presentation is simpler, but the content does not enhance user experience recall or anticipation
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-sorts media files according to the temporal sequence of user experiences before presentation, so that when media content is delivered to the player, it is already organized to enhance recall of past experiences and anticipation of future experiences without requiring complex real-time sorting
Data Source
AI summary
A process, computer program product, and apparatus provide for a contextual media presentation. The process, computer program product, and apparatus receive a plurality of planned and/or completed user experiences. Further, the process, computer program product, and apparatus select a plurality of media files that are contextually relevant to the received user experiences. In addition, the process, computer program product, and apparatus sort a list of the plurality of media files to generate a sorted list of media files. The process, computer program product, and apparatus send the sorted list of media files to a player for playback.