False Belief Intervention System Using Cause Comparison

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Solution Overview

Problem

Individuals often form beliefs based on incomplete or inaccurate information, leading to erroneous causes of belief that may result in inappropriate actions.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising one or more processors and memories that receives communications from an individual, extracts target beliefs, identifies attributable causes, compares them to known causes, and generates interventions when a false known cause is identified, presented through a user interface.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the system analyzes communications to identify erroneous causes of belief, then the accuracy of belief correction is improved, but the processing complexity and computational resources required increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of belief correctionVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex analysis process into distinct modules: communication reception, belief extraction, cause identification, comparison with known causes, and intervention generation. Each module handles a specific aspect of the analysis, making the overall complex task manageable and systematic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses an intermediary database of known causes and their corresponding effects as a reference framework. This database serves as a mediator between the raw communication data and the final intervention generation, enabling accurate comparison and identification of erroneous beliefs without requiring complex real-time analysis from scratch.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the system extracts and analyzes target beliefs from communications, then the effectiveness of intervention is improved, but the processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeffectiveness of interventionVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing a database of known causes and their effects before actual analysis occurs. This pre-computed reference structure enables rapid comparison during real-time communication analysis, reducing the time required to identify erroneous beliefs while maintaining high intervention effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the analysis results and interventions are fed back into the system for continuous refinement. The effectiveness of interventions is monitored and used to improve future belief extraction and cause identification processes, optimizing performance over time without requiring increased processing resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If the system compares attributable causes to known causes using similarity scoring, then the accuracy of false belief identification is improved, but the computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of false belief identificationVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes parameters by transforming the comparison task from complex semantic analysis to structured data matching. By representing causes and effects as structured data with specific attributes, the similarity scoring becomes a matter of comparing data structures rather than performing complex computational analysis, reducing computational complexity while maintaining identification accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250131056A1Systems, methods, and program for presenting an intervention for an erroneous cause of belief
Publication Date: 2025.04.24 TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
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AI summary

An apparatus for determining an erroneous cause for a belief and presenting interventions. The apparatus includes one or more memories comprising processor-executable instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the processor-executable instructions and cause the apparatus to receive a communication through at least one of a direct method or indirect method, extract a target belief, identify an attributable cause based on the communication, compile known causes of the target belief and determine if the known cause is false, compare the attributable cause to the known causes and generate a score based on an amount of similarities, determine that the attributable cause corresponds to a known cause that is false, when the score is greater than a predetermined threshold, and generate interventions for presentation on the user interface device based on the determination that the attributable cause corresponds to the known cause that is false.