Dialog Assessment Platform With AI Comment Prediction

Solution Overview

Problem

Current training assessment models fail to effectively evaluate practical skills and provide personalized feedback, particularly for individuals with learning disabilities or those struggling with literacy, as they often rely on multiple-choice questions and short answer essays that do not accurately measure performance-based skills, and lack the personalization needed to correct or modify behaviors effectively.

Innovation Solution

A dialog assessment platform that provides a user interface for trainees to practice skills, records their interactions, and allows trainers to offer customized feedback through a second interface, with AI analysis to predict when specific comments should be inserted, enabling personalized intervention and scoring based on interaction features.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional multiple choice and short answer assessment items are used, then the assessment process is simple and quick, but the measurement precision of practical skills is poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical assessment methods (multiple choice questions) with an AI-based automated evaluation system that analyzes video recordings of trainee performances. The system uses computer vision and natural language processing to automatically assess practical skills, substituting the need for complex human-coded assessment protocols with automated intelligent systems that can accurately measure performance-based skills while maintaining operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service assessment where trainees record their own performances and receive automated feedback from the AI system. The assessment process becomes autonomous, with the system automatically analyzing video data, generating evaluations, and providing personalized feedback without requiring extensive human intervention in the scoring process, thus maintaining simplicity while improving measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If standardized assessment questions are used, then the assessment process is efficient, but the personalization of feedback is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by providing personalized feedback at specific temporal locations within the trainee's performance video. The system identifies particular moments in the video where improvements are needed and delivers targeted feedback at those exact locations, allowing each trainee to receive customized guidance tailored to their specific performance patterns while maintaining efficient automated processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the trainee's performance video to identify key features and patterns before generating personalized feedback. By pre-processing the video data to extract meaningful performance characteristics, the system can efficiently generate tailored feedback responses that are both personalized to each trainee's needs and maintained through automated processing, thus resolving the contradiction between personalization and efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If AI analysis is performed on trainee recordings, then the personalization of feedback is improved, but the processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the video analysis process into distinct computational tasks, including video encoding, feature extraction, performance evaluation, and feedback generation. By dividing the complex AI analysis into separate modular segments that can be processed independently and in parallel, the system reduces overall processing time while maintaining comprehensive personalized feedback analysis of trainee performances.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11436934B2Systems and methods for providing a dialog assessment platform
Publication Date: 2022.09.06
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AI summary

One embodiment includes a processor and a memory component coupled to the processor. The memory component stores logic that, when executed by the processor, causes the system to provide a first user interface for a trainee to practice a skill, receive a first recording from the trainee practicing the skill, provide the first recording to a trainer, and provide a second user interface for the trainer to provide comments to the first recording. In some embodiments, the logic causes the system to receive a comment from the trainer at a first section of the first recording, save the comment as a previously recorded comment, perform an analysis of the first recording to determine a feature of the interaction that corresponds to the previously recorded comment, and predict when the trainer will provide the previously recorded comment to a second section of the recording, based on the analysis of the feature.