Intelligent Presentation Assistant for Real-Time Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Creators and presenters of presentation documents face challenges in effectively communicating content due to reliance on flawed or incomplete human feedback, which can lead to suboptimal presentation design and delivery.

Innovation Solution

An intelligent assistant system integrated into presentation software uses world knowledge and machine learning to provide personalized analytics and recommendations on verbosity, content progression, layout, and speech analysis, tailoring feedback to the user's style and preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If human feedback is used to improve presentations, then presentations can be refined based on peer input, but the feedback may be flawed or incomplete leading to suboptimal results

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback qualityVSAvoidfeedback completeness
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple feedback sources including human peers, automated analysis systems, and machine learning models to create a comprehensive feedback mechanism. This merging of diverse feedback channels ensures both reliability through multiple validation points and completeness through varied perspectives on presentation quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements continuous feedback loops where presentation data is collected, analyzed by machine learning models, and returned as actionable insights to creators. This automated feedback mechanism operates alongside human feedback to provide real-time guidance on improving presentation effectiveness without relying solely on potentially flawed human judgment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If detailed analytics and personalized feedback are provided, then presentation effectiveness is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepresentation effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The presentation analysis system performs self-service by automatically collecting presentation data, analyzing it through machine learning models, and generating feedback without requiring manual intervention. This automation handles the complexity internally while providing simple, actionable insights to users, improving productivity without increasing perceived system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer of machine learning models that translate complex presentation data into simplified, actionable feedback. This intermediary processing layer manages the complexity of analyzing multiple data points while presenting simplified recommendations to users, balancing detailed analytics with ease of use

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If machine learning is used to analyze user reactions and tailor feedback, then personalized recommendations are provided, but data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoiddata processing energy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The machine learning system applies local quality by focusing analysis on specific, relevant features of user reactions and presentation content rather than processing all possible data uniformly. This targeted approach provides personalized feedback where needed while reducing overall data processing requirements by concentrating computational resources on the most impactful analysis areas

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10242672B2Intelligent assistance in presentations
Publication Date: 2019.03.26 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

An intelligent assistant leverages private data specific to users and data available publically on one or more networks to improve the functionality of devices used to present content. A user's actions in a content authoring application are observed by the intelligent assistant and used to predict the user's actions. The public data related to the content in the presentation are also used to augment the presentation and to suggest best practices in presenting the content. In some aspects, a “practice” presentation is given by the user to provide the intelligent assistant a baseline to which to assist the user in realtime comply with during a “live” presentation or to receive suggestions in how to improve the presentation prior to presenting it “live”.