Context-Aware Hearing Notification Timing for User Availability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Hearing instrument users often miss or are unable to act on notifications due to environmental distractions or inaccessibility, particularly when engaged in activities or environments that make it difficult to receive or respond to reminders.
Innovation Solution
A computing device, connected to hearing instruments, continuously monitors contextual information from sensors to determine the user's availability and waits for optimal moments to output notifications, ensuring they are received and actionable.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If notifications are output continuously or frequently, then the likelihood of user awareness increases, but the user may become distracted or unable to interact due to environmental factors and activities
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system dynamically adjusts its behavior based on real-time sensor data about user context. The system transitions between different notification states (immediate delivery, delayed delivery, cancellation) based on detected user activities such as driving, exercising, or being in noisy environments, thereby optimizing both delivery reliability and interaction availability
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors sensor data providing feedback about user context and availability. This feedback loop enables the system to determine optimal notification timing by analyzing patterns in user behavior and environmental conditions, adjusting notification delivery based on detected user state
2Ease of operation
If notifications are delayed until optimal moments, then user interaction availability increases, but the notification may lose its timely relevance
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of sensor data to predict future user availability windows. By proactively identifying upcoming opportunities for user interaction based on detected patterns in user behavior and environmental conditions, the system can time notifications to coincide with these predicted windows, maintaining both timeliness and interaction availability
Solution Approach 2:
The system adjusts notification timing parameters dynamically based on detected user context and historical patterns. By changing the timing parameters (delay duration, scheduling windows) according to user behavior patterns and environmental conditions, the system optimizes the balance between maintaining notification relevance and ensuring user availability
Data Source
AI summary
One or more processing circuits may obtain sensor data that includes first sensor data generated by a first plurality of sensors of one or more hearing instruments worn by a user and second sensor data generated by a second plurality of sensors of the computing device communicably coupled to the one or more hearing instruments. The one or more processing circuits may generate a notification and may determine, based on at least a portion of the sensor data, a. time period at which the user is available to interact with the notification. The one or more processing circuits may, in response to determining the time period at which the user is available to interact with the notification, output, during the time period, the notification.