Context-Sensing Lighting Feedback for Transparent Mode Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing context-sensing based lighting arrangements lack user controllability and transparency in operation mode selection, particularly in situations where artificial intelligence may make decisions that are not transparent to the user.
Innovation Solution
A lighting-arrangement control device that receives context-sensing data from RF-signal transmissions between lighting devices, selects operational modes based on this data and user preferences, and provides user feedback through lighting effects to inform users about the decision-making process, using mechanisms like neural networks for improved transparency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If context-sensing data is collected from RF-signal transmissions between lighting devices to enable automated operation mode selection, then the lighting arrangement becomes more adaptive and intelligent, but user controllability and transparency are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by providing user feedback operation data that informs users about the selected operation mode and the context-sensing data that influenced the selection. This feedback loop restores user controllability by making the AI decision-making process transparent, allowing users to understand and potentially influence the system's behavior while maintaining the benefits of automated adaptive operation.
2Productivity
If AI algorithms are used to automatically select operation modes based on context-sensing data, then productivity and system intelligence are improved, but transparency of decision-making is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary function that translates complex AI decision-making processes into comprehensible information for users. The operation control unit acts as a mediator that not only selects operation modes based on context-sensing data using AI algorithms but also communicates the rationale behind selections to users, preserving transparency without reducing automated productivity.
3Measurement precision
If multiple lighting devices perform RF-signal transmission for context sensing, then measurement precision of context information is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies multi-functionality by enabling lighting devices to serve dual purposes: providing illumination and performing context-sensing through RF-signal transmissions. This eliminates the need for separate sensing devices, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high measurement precision through coordinated measurements from multiple multi-functional lighting devices.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances user controllability and transparency by allowing users to understand and influence the operation mode selection, reducing friction with AI-driven decisions and ensuring informed user interaction.
Implementation Method 1
The context sensing data is determined from a RF-signal transmission between the at least one lighting device comprising the context-sensing unit and at least another external lighting device
Data Source
AI summary
The invention is directed to a lighting-arrangement control device (100) for controlling operation of a lighting arrangement (150), and configured to receive, from at least one lighting device (101.1, 101.2, 101.3, 101.4) context-sensing data (CS1, PS2) correlatable to a context of a subject within a respective sensing volume (SV1, SV2). An operation control unit (104) is configured to ascertain arrangement-status data, to select one functional operation mode from a plurality of pre-specified functional operation modes of the lighting arrangement, each being associated with respective functional lighting devices and to identify as context-aware devices those lighting devices that have provided the context-sensing data relevant for the selection of the functional operation mode. The operation control unit is configured to provide, to the identified context-aware devices, first user-feedback operation-data (UF) for driving their lighting units in a user-feedback operation informing a user about the identified context-aware devices.