Gamified Digital Map for Parking Spot Data Contribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for providing information about parking spots lack sufficient motivation for users to contribute comprehensive data, as they do not effectively leverage gamified elements to engage the community in data input and sharing.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize gamified motivational elements, such as virtual streets, graphical representation of ownership, personalization, contests, rewards, and virtual wealth, to encourage users to input detailed information about parking spots, which is aggregated into a digital map and shared within a user community.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional crowd-sourcing applications are used without gamified elements, then the system structure remains simple, but user motivation to contribute comprehensive parking spot data is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static parking spot map into a dynamic gamified environment by changing parameters such as user roles (owner, visitor, contender), area ownership status, and reward mechanisms. These parameter changes create motivational drivers that significantly increase user productivity in contributing parking spot data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces virtual areas and virtual objects as intermediaries between users and the parking spot database. Users interact with these virtual representations rather than directly with raw data, making the contribution process more engaging while maintaining systematic data aggregation.
2Loss of information
If detailed information about parking spots is collected, then the completeness of the parking spot database improves, but the complexity of data management and processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the parking spot information into structured categories (location, cost, properties, images) and organizes them within virtual areas. This segmentation makes comprehensive data management more systematic and tractable, reducing the complexity burden while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates virtual copies of parking spots and their attributes in the digital map system. These virtual representations allow for comprehensive information storage and manipulation without directly managing the complexity of physical parking spot variations, simplifying data processing while maintaining detail.
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AI summary
A method for providing information regarding parking spots, including transmitting the information input by a user into an input device to a database; generating a digital map of the parking spots; and transmitting the digital map to a user community, contents of the digital map being modified as a function of an input activity of the user by using at least one gamified element.