Interactive Display Kiosk With User Detection and Personalized Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional informational kiosks lack personalization and dynamic interaction, are energy inefficient, and require manual operation, failing to engage users effectively in dynamic environments and lacking hardware integration and autonomy.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a smart kiosk with a motorized base, integrated display devices, spatial location, user detection, and content personalization engine using machine learning to provide interactive and personalized displays, enabling user-specific content delivery and navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional informational kiosks are used, then they provide basic information display functionality, but they lack personalization and dynamic interaction capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into distinct functional modules: spatial location module for positioning, user detection module for identifying users, and content personalization engine for tailoring content. This segmentation allows each module to handle specific tasks independently, achieving personalization without overwhelming system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The kiosk system integrates multiple functions into a single platform: information display, spatial tracking, user detection, and personalized content delivery. This multi-functionality enables the system to adapt to different user needs and environments while maintaining a unified device structure.
2Productivity
If conventional informational kiosks are manually operated, then they require human intervention for content updates, but this reduces productivity and increases loss of time
Solution Approach 1:
The kiosk system automatically performs content updates and adjustments without human intervention. The content personalization engine autonomously selects and displays relevant content based on user detection and spatial data, eliminating manual operation requirements and significantly improving productivity while reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
Content is pre-processed and organized by the personalization engine before user interaction occurs. The system prepares multiple content options in advance and automatically selects the appropriate content when users are detected, eliminating the need for manual content updates during operation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional informational kiosks are statically arranged, then they occupy fixed positions, but this reduces adaptability to dynamic environments and user locations
Solution Approach 1:
The kiosk system incorporates dynamic capabilities through the spatial location module that continuously tracks user positions and the motorized base that enables physical movement. This allows the kiosk to adapt its position and content delivery based on real-time environmental conditions and user locations, transforming a static device into a dynamic system.
Solution Approach 2:
The spatial location module acts as an intermediary between the physical environment and the content delivery system. It receives spatial data from various sensors and translates this information into actionable insights for the content personalization engine, enabling the system to adapt to dynamic environments without direct complex sensor integration throughout the entire system.
4Productivity
If conventional informational kiosks lack user detection capabilities, then they provide generic information, but this reduces user engagement and effectiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The user detection functionality is segmented into a dedicated user detection module that handles all sensing and identification tasks. This module processes spatial data from sensors and identifies users without requiring the entire system to be complex, as only the detection module needs sophisticated sensing capabilities while other modules receive processed user identification information.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a system, including: a motorized base including a first surface disposed at a top of the motorized base; one or more integrated display devices; a second surface disposed proximate to the one or more integrated display devices; one or more interactive elements disposed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface; a spatial location module configured to determine a current location of the system and a destination location of the system; a user detection module configured to detect a user approaching the system; and a content personalization engine configured to determine content to be displayed on the one or more integrated display devices and the one or more output display devices.