Intent Inference for Wrong User Manipulations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods fail to provide effective manipulation assistance for users when they perform a wrong action for the first time, especially when attempting a function that has never been executed before, leading to trial-and-error and uncertainty in device operation.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a database that associates highly-mistakable manipulations with intended functions, generating manipulation assistance information to help users correct their actions and infer the intended function, even on first-time usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional methods utilize manipulation history to infer user intent, then assistance can be provided for repeated wrong manipulations, but no assistance is provided for first-time wrong manipulations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-establishes a database mapping wrong manipulations to intended functions before actual use. When a user makes a wrong manipulation, the system immediately queries this pre-prepared database to infer intent and provide assistance, eliminating the need to rely on historical manipulation data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual model of user intent by establishing correspondence relationships between wrong manipulations and intended functions in advance. This virtual model allows the system to infer user intent without requiring actual manipulation history, effectively copying the intent inference capability into a static database structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a device has many functions to provide versatility, then user capability is enhanced, but the likelihood of wrong manipulation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system detects wrong manipulations, queries the database to infer intended functions, and provides assistance information back to the user. This closed-loop feedback helps users correct wrong manipulations and learn proper operations, improving manipulation accuracy despite device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a database as an intermediary between the user and the device functions. This database stores pre-established correspondence relationships and acts as a mediator to infer user intent and bridge the gap between wrong manipulations and intended functions, reducing errors caused by device complexity.
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AI summary
There is provided an apparatus which provides manipulation assistance, even in the case where a user trying to executing a certain function has performed a wrong manipulation, by inferring the function which the user originally wanted to execute.The apparatus according to the present invention is to be used in an electronic device having an input section to receive a manipulation by a user and operating based on the user's manipulation, and infers a manipulation intent of the user. This apparatus includes a storage which stores a database in which a function of the electronic device is associated with a manipulation that is highly mistakable when a user having an experience of manipulating an electronic device other than the electronic device uses the electronic device; and a manipulation assistance section for, when the manipulation by the user is wrong, determining a substance of manipulation assistance for executing a function which is intended by the user, in accordance with the function which is associated with the highly-mistakable manipulation in the database. This apparatus determines an operation of the electronic device based on the substance of manipulation assistance, and outputs an instruction to the electronic device.