Interactive Media Input Control for User Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Viewers watching variety shows online cannot interact with the program content or express opinions, leading to a weak sense of participation and immersion, affecting their viewing experience.
Innovation Solution
An interaction method and device that displays an input control during media playback, allowing users to input information, display associated feedback, and judge if it meets preset conditions to show a second media content, enhancing user engagement and immersion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If online viewers only watch variety shows without interaction controls, then the system is simple and easy to operate, but the sense of participation and immersion is weak
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where user input (scoring or voting) during media playback is immediately processed and reflected back to the user through the interaction interface. This real-time feedback loop enhances user participation by making them feel their actions matter, while maintaining system simplicity through automated processing of the feedback signals.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an interaction interface as an intermediary layer between the user and the media playback system. This interface provides scoring and voting controls that mediate user interaction, enabling participation without requiring users to leave the playback environment or use complex external systems.
2Device complexity
If no input controls are provided during media playback, then the device complexity is low, but user engagement and immersion are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The interaction interface is designed as a multi-functional component that can handle both media playback control and user interaction (scoring/voting) within a single unified interface. This universal design enables diverse user engagements without requiring separate complex systems for each function, thereby maintaining relatively low device complexity while enhancing user engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically processes user inputs and determines outcomes without requiring manual intervention or complex external processing. The playback device itself handles the scoring aggregation, voting tallies, and result display, making the system self-sufficient and reducing overall device complexity while providing rich user engagement options.
3Adaptability or versatility
If interaction controls are added to enable user input during playback, then the sense of participation improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the interaction controls (scoring and voting inputs) with the existing media playback interface into a single integrated system. By combining these functions that previously would have been separate, the patent enhances user participation while minimizing the increase in device complexity through shared hardware and software resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The interaction interface uses simplified digital representations (copies) of scoring and voting mechanisms that mirror real-world concepts but are implemented through simple software controls. This allows complex interaction scenarios to be handled through relatively simple digital interfaces, improving participation while keeping device complexity manageable.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present disclosed provides an interaction method and device, a storage medium, and a computer program product, including displaying an input control during a process of playing a first media content through a playback control in an interaction interface; obtaining input information of a current user from the input control; displaying the input information and associated information of the input information; and judging whether the input information and the associated information meet a preset condition, and displaying a second media content based on a result of the judging.