Group Decision Haptic Feedback via Weighted Input Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing interactive systems fail to effectively incorporate group decision-making into user interfaces, leading to potential disenfranchisement of minority opinions through majority rule-based haptic feedback, which can result in unsatisfactory user experiences, especially in multi-user scenarios like amusement rides where diverse inputs need to be harmonized.
Innovation Solution
An interactive system that utilizes haptic feedback interface mechanisms connected through a group controller, which determines a group decision based on sensed outputs from multiple user interface devices, applying weighting, timing, and threshold factors to ensure that the group decision is responsive to varying inputs and provides feedback to all users, thereby aligning the system's actions with the collective preference.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If majority rule-based haptic feedback is used to determine group decisions, then the system can quickly reach a decision, but minority opinions are disenfranchised leading to unsatisfactory user experiences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing customized haptic feedback to individual users based on their specific input and the group decision outcome. Each user receives tailored feedback that reflects their personal contribution to the group decision, rather than a uniform feedback approach. This ensures minority opinions are acknowledged and represented in the haptic feedback, improving user satisfaction while maintaining decision-making efficiency.
2Device complexity
If uniform haptic feedback is provided to all users based on group decision, then implementation is simple, but diverse user inputs are not adequately represented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the haptic feedback system into individual user channels, where each user receives customized feedback based on their specific input and the group decision outcome. The group controller divides the feedback generation into separate processing streams for each user, allowing diverse inputs to be individually acknowledged while maintaining overall system coordination. This segmentation approach enhances adaptability to diverse inputs without significantly increasing implementation complexity.
3Ease of operation
If individual user inputs are fully accommodated in group decisions, then user satisfaction is maximized, but system coordination and decision consistency become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the group controller receives inputs from multiple users, processes them through weighted algorithms, and provides customized haptic feedback to each user based on their input's influence on the final group decision. This feedback loop maintains decision consistency by clearly communicating to each user how their input was considered and what the collective outcome is, while still maximizing user satisfaction through individualized acknowledgment of their contributions.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided that may be adapted for use with a plurality of user interface devices having haptic feedback interface mechanisms. A group controller may be adapted to determine a group decision input based, at least in part, on sensed outputs the user interface devices. At least a portion of the group decision input may be used to provide haptic feedback to a user via the user interface device.