Message Rendering via Object Interaction Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic communications devices lack the capability to replicate physiological effects such as warmth and scent, which are essential social cues in in-person communication, limiting their ability to enhance user understanding and experience.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that determine associations between received messages and external real objects, enabling message rendering based on changes in physical relationships between the user and the object, such as position or orientation, to simulate sensory experiences like warmth or comfort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If messages are rendered immediately upon receipt, then information delivery speed is improved, but user context awareness and emotional understanding deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting object interactions and determining their emotional significance before rendering messages. The apparatus monitors user interactions with external objects, determines associations between these interactions and incoming messages, and only renders messages when the interaction context supports appropriate emotional understanding, thus preserving contextual information while maintaining timely delivery.
2Device complexity
If electronic communications devices provide only visual/audio output, then device complexity is reduced, but emotional warmth and social cue replication deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary layer of object interaction detection between the user and the message rendering process. By detecting physical interactions with external objects and using these as contextual mediators, the system enables emotional warmth and social cue replication without requiring direct replication of physiological effects, thus maintaining device simplicity while enhancing emotional expression capability.
3Measurement precision
If messages are withheld until object interaction is detected, then emotional context accuracy is improved, but information delivery time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring user interactions with external objects and using this information to dynamically control message rendering timing. The apparatus receives messages, monitors for relevant object interactions, and renders messages when interaction patterns indicate appropriate emotional context, thus achieving accurate emotional context delivery while minimizing unnecessary delays through real-time feedback-driven decision making.
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AI summary
An apparatus comprising means for, a method comprising, and a computer program that performs: preventing rendering, via the apparatus, of a message received at the apparatus; determining an association between the received message and an external, real object; and enabling rendering of the message via the apparatus in response to a change from a first physical relationship between a user and the external, real object to a second physical relationship between the user and the external, real object.