Dialog Response Frame Adaptation for Multi-Device Agent Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Developers face challenges in designing dialog responses that effectively utilize the diverse expression means of various agent devices, leading to increased labor and complexity in ensuring appropriate user interactions.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that acquire capabilities for each device, generate dialog responses from a dialog response frame, and deploy them accordingly, allowing for context-aware output that matches the device's capabilities, thereby simplifying the design process and enhancing user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a pre-designed dialog DB and dialog generation means are used to reduce developer labor, then ease of manufacture is improved, but the ability to maximize use of diverse expression means across different agent devices deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal dialog response frame structure that can be adapted to multiple agent devices with different expression means (speaker, display, body). The frame includes capability information fields that allow the same dialog response template to be customized for different device types, enabling one dialog generation system to serve multiple device configurations without requiring separate design efforts for each device.
Solution Approach 2:
The dialog response is segmented into a standardized frame structure with distinct capability information fields and content fields. This segmentation allows the dialog generation means to selectively process and output appropriate responses based on the target device's capabilities, while maintaining a unified generation process that reduces developer labor.
2Adaptability or versatility
If dialog responses are customized for each agent device to maximize expression means utilization, then adaptability or versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
By creating a universal dialog response frame that works across different agent devices, the patent reduces dialog design complexity. The frame includes standardized capability information fields that automatically adapt to different device types (speaker, display, body), eliminating the need for complex custom designs for each device while still maximizing each device's expression means.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses parameter-based adaptation where the dialog response frame contains capability information parameters that are filled based on the target agent device's characteristics. This allows the same dialog generation process to produce device-appropriate responses by simply changing the capability parameters, rather than requiring complex structural modifications for each device type.
3Ease of manufacture
If a standardized dialog response frame is used across different devices, then ease of manufacture is improved, but the ability to provide context-aware responses deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The dialog response frame is segmented into distinct sections including capability information fields and context-related fields. This segmentation allows the standardized frame to incorporate device-specific capability data while also including context information from the dialog flow, enabling both ease of generation and context-awareness to coexist in a unified structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The dialog response frame includes fields that capture context information from the dialog interaction history and device capability feedback. This feedback mechanism allows the standardized generation process to produce context-appropriate responses by incorporating real-time dialog state and device capability information into the response selection process.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus acquires a capability for each of agent devices that each output a dialog response, generates the dialog response corresponding to the capability, based on a general-purpose dialog response frame, and deploys the dialog response to each of the agent devices. The capability indicates a combination of interfaces available for each of the agent devices. The apparatus applies to the general-purpose dialog response frame a conversion template including plural templates that convert values of parameters of the general-purpose dialog response frame into converted forms in accordance with the combination of interfaces available for each of the agent devices, and generate the dialog response for each of the agent devices, using the converted forms converted from the values of the parameters of the general-purpose dialog response frame.