Eye-Tracking Feedback for Remote Sales Content Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Salespeople, especially less experienced ones, face challenges in adjusting their sales presentations in real-time based on remote 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 system and method that uses eye-tracking sensors to monitor a client's behavior and generate feedback data, allowing salespersons to dynamically modify and update content presented during sales pitches based on the client's reaction, 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 accessibility and reach of sales efforts are improved, but the ability to gauge client reactions and adjust presentations in real-time deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to adjust presentation based on client reactionVSAvoidloss of client reaction information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by capturing client eye-tracking data through sensors in the display device, processing this data to determine attention levels and areas of interest, then transmitting this information back to the salesperson's device. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables salespeople to see real-time client engagement metrics and adjust their presentations accordingly, resolving the information loss problem in remote sales interactions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that includes servers and analytical software. This intermediary captures raw eye-tracking data from sensors, processes it to extract meaningful metrics about client attention and engagement, and presents this processed information to the salesperson. The intermediary transforms uninterpretable sensor data into actionable insights, enabling real-time presentation adaptation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If eye-tracking sensors are deployed to monitor client behavior, then the precision of client reaction measurement is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of client attention measurementVSAvoidcomplexity of monitoring system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display device itself incorporates the eye-tracking sensors and processing capabilities, making the system self-sufficient. The display device captures its own usage data through integrated sensors, processes this data locally or transmits it for analysis, and generates the feedback metrics without requiring separate monitoring equipment. This self-service approach reduces overall system complexity while maintaining high measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10871821B1Systems and methods for presenting and modifying interactive content
Publication Date: 2020.12.22 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO
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AI summary

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for presenting and modifying 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 the 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, presenting feedback to the first user and modifying the content of the for the first and the second user according to the second user's reaction.