Online Dating Profile Word Cloud Display for Personality Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Online dating services face dissatisfaction due to the 'priming' effect where physical attraction fades quickly, leading to mismatched relationships, as users often rely solely on pictures for initial attraction without understanding personality traits, and existing strategies like removing pictures or requiring profile approval are ineffective or flawed.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that analyze an individual's personality from various sources, creating a word cloud to display before revealing their photograph, incorporating user answers, behavior patterns, and implicit desires to better match personalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If pictures are displayed first to create physical attraction, then initial user engagement increases, but relationship sustainability decreases due to priming effect wearing off
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary personality analysis and displays personality information (word cloud, traits, interests) before displaying the user's photograph. This preliminary action allows potential matches to assess compatibility based on personality traits first, creating a foundation for sustainable relationships while maintaining initial engagement through visual appeal.
2Reliability
If personality analysis is performed to improve matching accuracy, then relationship sustainability increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses an intermediary word cloud visualization to represent personality traits, interests, and characteristics. This intermediary representation simplifies the complex personality analysis data into an easily digestible visual format, reducing the perceived system complexity while maintaining accurate personality matching capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces traditional manual profile reading and compatibility assessment with automated computer analysis of personality data. This substitution of mechanical/manual processes with computational analysis improves matching accuracy and relationship sustainability while managing system complexity through automation.
3Reliability
If profile information is displayed before pictures, then personality-based matching improves, but initial user investment decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges personality information display (word cloud, traits, interests) with the photograph display in a unified profile view. This combination allows users to see both personality characteristics and visual appearance simultaneously, maintaining initial user investment through visual appeal while improving personality-based matching accuracy.
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AI summary
The invention discloses a method and system for displaying electronic information for an Online Dating Service. Information is received through a variety of means including electronic analysis of photographs and communications as well as direct questions posed to an individual. Once the information is received a profile describing the interest, personality traits and what traits the individual looks for in a companion is created. To prevent priming based on physical appearance the word cloud is displayed to other individuals prior to a photograph. The photograph can be revealed to the other individuals if they take affirmative action to view the photograph or after an arbitrary period of time such that the other individuals can be primed based on the information in the word cloud without losing the emotional investment in finding a companion.