Discussion Support Device Using Neural Network Facilitation Structure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems like Innocentive and Quola primarily focus on generating ideas and do not effectively support the organization or progression of discussions based on opinions and preferences, limiting large-scale decision-making processes.
Innovation Solution
A discussion support device that acquires comments via a communication network and creates a facilitation structure using neural networks to extract and organize ideas, evaluations, and issues, allowing for intuitive determination of node relationships and parent-child connections within a tree structure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If comments are acquired and summarized from large groups of people, then the quantity of ideas and evaluations increases, but the organization and progression of discussion becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The discussion content is segmented into distinct categories: ideas, evaluations, and issues. Each category is represented as a separate node in the facilitation structure, allowing systematic organization of large amounts of discussion data without creating unnecessary complexity in the overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts key elements (ideas, evaluations, issues) from the comments and represents them as nodes in a structured facilitation model. This extraction process organizes unstructured discussion data into a manageable hierarchical structure that maintains relationships between different discussion elements.
2Ease of operation
If a facilitation structure is created to organize discussion, then the organization of discussion improves, but the automation level decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically creates and maintains the facilitation structure by processing comments as they are submitted. The structure self-updates based on new discussion content, eliminating the need for manual intervention in structure creation and maintenance while providing organized discussion framework.
Solution Approach 2:
The facilitation structure serves as feedback to participants, showing how their comments are organized and represented in the overall discussion structure. This feedback mechanism helps participants understand the state of discussion and guides further contributions in a structured manner.
Data Source
AI summary
A discussion support device acquires, via a communication network, a plurality of comments relating to a main topic of a discussion, extracts a plurality of ideas, a plurality of favorable points, a plurality of unfavorable points, and a plurality of issues from the acquired plurality of comments, identifies a topology between the extracted plurality of ideas, plurality of favorable points, plurality of unfavorable points, and plurality of issues, and creates a facilitation structure to realize the identified topology.