Intra-Route Feedback System for Navigation Error Correction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current routing applications lack the ability to gather detailed feedback from users regarding navigation errors, relying on simple and constrained inputs, which can be distracting and inconvenient, especially while driving or walking, and do not provide mechanisms for users to describe specific errors such as mislabeled exits.
Innovation Solution
A computer system and server system that capture route context data via multiple devices, including input devices, sensors, and a display, allowing users to input detailed feedback on navigation errors, which is then processed to generate actionable map corrections by analyzing trends and correlations from user data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If simple and constrained feedback input methods are used, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a feedback interface as an intermediary between the user and the routing system. This interface captures detailed feedback information (such as images, audio, text descriptions) and transmits it to the server, enabling rich information transfer while keeping the user interaction simple through structured forms and pre-defined options.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining feedback categories and structures before the user provides input. The feedback interface presents predefined options and structured forms that guide users in providing detailed feedback without requiring them to create complex input methods from scratch.
2Loss of information
If detailed feedback input methods are implemented, then loss of information decreases, but ease of operation worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The feedback interface is segmented into multiple distinct input methods (image capture, audio recording, text input, pre-defined options). Users can select and provide feedback through their preferred method without being burdened by complex comprehensive input requirements, thus maintaining ease of operation while capturing detailed information.
Solution Approach 2:
The feedback interface is designed to be universal and multi-functional, supporting multiple input modalities (visual, auditory, textual) within a single unified interface. This allows the system to gather detailed feedback information while providing users with flexible and convenient input options suitable for different situations.
3Measurement precision
If multiple input devices and sensors are used, then measurement precision improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple input devices (camera, microphone, text input interface) and sensors into a single integrated feedback interface. This consolidation allows the system to capture precise route context data from multiple sources while presenting a unified, manageable interface to users, effectively combining multiple functions without proportionally increasing perceived complexity.
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AI summary
A server system is provided that includes one or more processors configured to receive an intra-route navigation error package including a plurality of route context data from a user computer device. The intra-route navigation error package indicates that a navigation error occurred at a geospatial location. The one or more processors are further configured to send, to the user computing device, a detailed feedback package configured to cause the user computer device to display a feedback interface at a later point in time when a user of the user computer device is not traveling. The detailed feedback package includes a route context determined based on the plurality of route context data and configured to be presented to the user via the feedback interface. The one or more processors are further configured to determine a map correction for a map database based on user input of detailed feedback.