Haptic Interaction Rules Engine for Web Accessibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current haptic technologies in electronic commerce lack effective methods to incentivize or restrict purchase transactions, particularly for visually impaired users and in ensuring security, without requiring specialized browser plugins or extensive site development.
Innovation Solution
A method utilizing a rules engine to obtain site maps and rules for haptic devices, providing instructions to cause stimuli to users before they attempt actions on web sites, enhancing accessibility and security through standardized web markup techniques and minimal developer effort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If haptic devices are integrated into web browsing to provide tactile feedback and guidance, then accessibility for visually impaired users is improved, but device complexity and integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
A rules engine acts as an intermediary between the website content and the haptic device, translating web page elements into haptic feedback instructions. This mediator handles the complexity of integration, allowing standard websites to work with haptic devices without requiring modifications to the devices themselves or complex integration code in the browser.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses existing web markup techniques and standardized protocols to enable haptic feedback, allowing websites to serve themselves with haptic capabilities through conventional HTML elements and attributes rather than requiring specialized plugins or extensive redevelopment.
2Reliability
If haptic feedback is implemented to incentivize or restrict purchase transactions, then security in electronic commerce is enhanced, but system complexity and development effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback loops where haptic devices provide real-time tactile responses to user actions during browsing and purchasing. This feedback mechanism enhances security by providing sensory confirmation of transaction states, product details, and system responses, while the rules engine manages the complexity of implementing these feedback protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The haptic feedback system is designed to serve multiple functions including security verification, user guidance, transaction confirmation, and accessibility support, allowing a single integrated system to address various electronic commerce requirements without proportionally increasing complexity.
3Ease of manufacture
If standardized web markup techniques are used for haptic integration, then ease of manufacture and deployment is improved, but functional versatility may be limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses standardized web markup parameters and attributes to control haptic feedback characteristics, allowing websites to adjust feedback intensity, duration, and pattern through conventional HTML parameters. This approach enables easy deployment while maintaining adaptability through parameter-based control of haptic behavior.
Solution Approach 2:
The haptic feedback system dynamically adjusts its behavior based on website content, user preferences, and context through rules engine configurations, allowing standardized markup to produce versatile, context-appropriate feedback without requiring custom integration for each website.
Data Source
AI summary
A web site map of an external site, including information permitting determination of at least one pertinent location on the site, is obtained at a rules engine. At least one rule specifying peripheral behavior in a region adjacent the at least one pertinent location on the site is also obtained at the engine. Furthermore, an indication that a peripheral device corresponding to the at least one rule is being used to browse the site is also obtained at the engine. Instructions corresponding to the at least one rule specifying the peripheral behavior in the region adjacent the at least one pertinent location on the site are dispatched from the rules engine to the peripheral device. The instructions are configured to cause a stimulus to a user of the peripheral device prior to the user attempting to consummate an action on the web site.