Meeting Support System Arrival Progress Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transportation support systems fail to effectively convey the progress and delay of the pick-up person relative to the person being picked up, making it difficult for users to coordinate smooth meetings at predetermined locations.
Innovation Solution
A meeting support system that communicates between user and pick-up person terminals, calculating and displaying the progress and difference in arrival times based on position information, providing intuitive feedback to adjust movement pace for timely meetings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If only the required time for both parties to arrive at the meeting place is displayed on the person to be picked up's smartphone, then the information display is simple, but the user cannot grasp how much the pick-up person's movement has progressed or delayed
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously acquires position information from both terminals, calculates movement progress for each party, determines the difference in progress, and feeds back this information to the person to be picked up. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the user to grasp real-time movement progress and potential delays without requiring complex manual tracking.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary that receives position data from both terminals, performs the complex calculations of movement progress and difference, and presents simplified results to the user. This intermediary handles the computational complexity while providing clear, actionable information to the person to be picked up.
2Measurement precision
If detailed movement progress and difference information is provided to the user, then the user can grasp pick-up person's progress accurately, but the information processing and display complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server serves as an intermediary that handles the complex calculations of movement progress and difference between the two parties. It receives position data, computes the progress metrics, and presents simplified, easy-to-understand results to the user, thereby achieving precise measurement without burdening the user's device with complex processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual calculation and interpretation of movement progress with automated computational processes. By substituting mechanical/manual methods with electronic computation and data processing, the system achieves precise measurement while keeping the user interface simple and easy to understand.
Data Source
AI summary
A meeting support system includes a communication unit capable of communicating with a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, and a controller configured to generate support information to be sent to the first communication terminal before the first communication terminal arrives at the destination. The controller acquires position information of the first and communication terminals, calculates first and second movement progresses based on the acquired position information of the first and second communication terminals, calculates a difference between the first and second movement progresses, generates the support information and sends the generated support information to the first communication terminal. The support information includes the calculated difference and at least one of the progresses.