Emotional State Presentation via Sensor-Triggered Video Buffering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often miss capturing meaningful moments as they focus on recording and spend less time enjoying them, and social media has not improved face-to-face interactions despite facilitating emotional sharing.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses sensors to detect emotional or cognitive states, triggering video recording and allowing dynamic sharing of these states between users, enabling automatic creation of video segments and presentation of emotional states in augmented reality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users manually capture photos or videos of meaningful moments, then they can record important events, but they spend more time trying to capture the moment instead of enjoying it
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously pre-records video content in a buffer before a meaningful moment occurs. Sensors detect emotional or cognitive state changes, and when triggered, the system creates a video segment from the pre-captured buffer content plus additional content. This eliminates the need for users to manually start recording at the right moment, as the system has already captured the surrounding context in advance.
2Loss of information
If social media applications enable emotional sharing through emoticons, then users can express emotions digitally, but face-to-face user interactions remain unchanged
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses sensors as intermediaries to detect emotional or cognitive state changes in real-time during face-to-face interactions. These detected states are then shared with other users through integrated applications, allowing emotional information to be transmitted during actual interactions rather than replacing them with digital emoticons. The sensor acts as a bridge between physical interaction and digital emotional sharing.
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AI summary
Emotional/cognitive state presentation is described. When two or more users, each using a device configured to present emotional/cognitive state data, are in proximity to one another, each device communicates an emotional/cognitive state of the user of the device to another device. Upon receiving data indicating an emotional/cognitive state of another user, an indication of the emotional/cognitive state of the user is presented.