Eye-Tracking Feedback for Remote Sales Content Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Salespeople, especially less experienced ones, face challenges in adapting their sales presentations in real-time to remotely located clients' reactions due to the inability to gauge the client's focus or interest during remote sales pitches, leading to sub-optimal sales interactions.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system that uses eye-tracking sensors to monitor a client's behavior and generate feedback data, allowing salespersons to dynamically modify and update the content presented during sales pitches based on the client's reactions, enabling real-time adjustments to improve engagement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If salespeople use remote presentation tools to reach clients, then the salesperson can present content to remotely located clients, but the salesperson cannot see or gauge the client's reactions or focus during the presentation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to adapt presentation to client reactionsVSAvoidloss of client reaction information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an eye-tracking sensor system as an intermediary device that captures the client's visual attention data during remote presentations. The sensor monitors which portions of the displayed content the client is looking at, converting unobservable client reactions into measurable data that can be transmitted back to the salesperson through the network connection, thus restoring the lost information about client engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback loop where the salesperson's presentation content is monitored by eye-tracking sensors at the client location, the captured gaze data is processed to determine client attention patterns, and this information is fed back to the salesperson in real-time or near-real-time, enabling the salesperson to adapt the presentation based on actual client engagement levels and focus areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If salespeople rely on their experience to gauge client reactions, then experienced salespeople can adapt their pitch, but less experienced salespeople benefit less and produce sub-optimal sales

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of adapting presentationVSAvoidability to adapt to different client reactions
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The eye-tracking system provides self-service by automatically monitoring and analyzing the client's visual attention without requiring the salesperson to manually observe or interpret client reactions. The system independently captures gaze data, processes it to identify which content portions are being viewed, and delivers this information to the salesperson, thereby compensating for the salesperson's lack of experience in reading client reactions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system delivers objective feedback about client attention patterns that does not depend on the salesperson's subjective judgment or experience. This feedback mechanism equalizes the ability to adapt presentations across salespeople of different experience levels, as everyone receives the same type of data-driven information about what the client is actually looking at and engaging with.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Loss of information

If the system monitors client behavior using eye-tracking sensors, then real-time feedback on client interest can be obtained, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation about client focusVSAvoidcomplexity of monitoring system
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses eye-tracking sensors to create a digital copy or representation of the client's visual attention patterns. Rather than requiring complex direct observation or interaction, the sensors capture gaze data that replicates the information a salesperson would obtain from directly observing the client's eyes, providing an indirect but effective means of measuring client focus without excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS10825058B1Systems and methods for presenting and modifying interactive content
Publication Date: 2020.11.03 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO
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AI summary

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for presenting intelligent interactive content. The methods may include receiving user input on a first device from a first user to present content to a second user on a second device. The method may include providing the second device with content data, presenting the content to the second user, monitoring the second user's reaction to the content using eye-tracking sensor, and generating feedback data. The method may include providing the feedback data to the first device and presenting feedback to the first user.