Message Augmentation System for Emotional Genuineness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Written communication methods, such as emails and social media, often lack genuine emotional expression, encouraging quantity over quality and relying on vague feedback or limited emoticons, which can lead to non-genuine communication.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows message composers to augment messages with predefined or custom words conveying feelings or intent, enabling recipients to rate the genuineness of messages and adjust the sender's online profile picture based on these ratings, reflecting the message's authenticity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If written communication means (emails, social media) are used to increase communication quantity, then productivity is improved, but the genuineness and quality of communication deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces feedback mechanisms where recipients can rate the genuineness of messages and provide feedback on emotional expression. This feedback loop helps senders improve their communication authenticity over time, addressing the deterioration of genuineness while maintaining high communication volume through efficient written means.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameters of written communication by adding emotional content tags, genuineness ratings, and authenticity metrics to messages. These parameter additions transform standard text communications into emotionally-aware interactions, improving genuineness without sacrificing the efficiency and quantity advantages of written communication.
2Adaptability or versatility
If emoticons are used to express emotion in writings, then emotional expression is improved, but the range and authenticity of emotional communication deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments emotional expression into multiple dimensions including emotional content, intensity, authenticity, and nuance. Instead of relying on single emoticons, messages are tagged with structured emotional data that captures the full spectrum of human emotion, providing both versatility and authenticity through granular emotional annotation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite communication format that combines traditional text with multiple layers of emotional metadata, including sender-rated emotions, recipient-perceived emotions, and authenticity indicators. This composite structure provides richer emotional expression while maintaining authenticity through multiple verification points.
3Ease of operation
If site guidelines and like/dislike voting are implemented to encourage supported communication, then ease of operation is improved, but the genuineness of communication deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements nuanced feedback mechanisms that go beyond simple like/dislike voting. Recipients can provide detailed feedback on specific emotional aspects of messages, and senders receive actionable insights about their communication authenticity. This maintains ease of operation through automated analysis while improving genuineness through detailed feedback loops.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using simple voting systems that encourage conformist communication, the patent inverts the approach by using complexity in emotional annotation to drive simplicity in understanding. The system handles complex emotional analysis automatically, presenting simplified authenticity metrics to users, thereby maintaining ease of operation while promoting genuine communication.
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AI summary
Implementations of this disclosure may assist users to communicate more effectively in online communications over a network such as emails, instant messaging, text messages, and social networking messages. In some implementations, systems and methods of this disclosure enable a message composer to augment a first message with one or more predefined or custom second messages where the second message is intended to convey an unspoken meaning about the first message. In some implementations, systems and methods of this disclosure enable a recipient of the augmented first message to rate the first message on its genuineness and to provide a predefined or custom explanation of the recipient's rating. In some implementations, systems and methods of this disclosure can change an online users' online picture (e.g., profile picture, avatar, etc.) based on ratings of the user's messages by recipients.