Dynamic Online Community Assignment via Interest Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in efficiently joining and leaving online groups that align with their transient and long-term interests, as existing systems require manual effort and registration processes, making it cumbersome to access relevant information and communities.
Innovation Solution
Dynamic Online Communities (DOCs) that automatically detect user interests and assign users to relevant communities, providing access to community information without the need for explicit registration, allowing users to follow or quit communities based on their changing interests.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually join and leave online groups to follow their interests, then they can access group information, but the process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects user interests through monitoring online activity and performs self-service by automatically assigning users to relevant dynamic online communities without requiring manual registration or membership management actions from users
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-identifying and preparing relevant online communities based on user interests before the user needs to access them, so that when users show interest in a topic, they are already assigned to the appropriate communities
2Adaptability or versatility
If users manually manage multiple group memberships, then they can follow different interests, but the complexity of managing multiple groups increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically manages user memberships across multiple communities by detecting interests and performing assignments without user intervention, eliminating the complexity of manual membership management while maintaining the ability to follow multiple interests
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates dynamic online communities that automatically adjust membership based on user interests, making the membership structure flexible and adaptive rather than static, allowing users to easily follow multiple interests without manual management
3Ease of operation
If the system automatically assigns users to communities, then user effort is reduced, but user authorization and control are removed
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to users about their automatic community assignments and allows users to review and control their memberships, maintaining user authorization while reducing manual effort through automatic detection and assignment
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer programs for triggering interaction with a Dynamic Online Community (DOC) are presented. In one embodiment, a method includes an operation for monitoring online activity of a user, which includes tracking user input on a web browser. The method further includes operations for detecting that the user is interested in a subject based on the online activity, and for determining whether there is a DOC topic that is associated with the subject. The DOC has members that have shown an interest in the DOC topic. In another operation, the method assigns the user to be a member of the DOC if the determination indicates that there is a DOC topic associated with the subject. The user is automatically recommended to join the DOC. DOC related information is provided to the user after the user is assigned to the DOC. In one embodiment, the online activity of the user is searching in a search provider's website.