Parental Social Media Filtering Based on a Child's Emotional State
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing profiling methods rely on self-reporting and observation, which are prone to conscious and subconscious biases, and lack access to unbiased, unobtrusive empirical data for accurate personal profiling.
Innovation Solution
Utilizing a person's digital devices to unobtrusively collect empirical data, analyze it, and correlate it to create a true profile without self-reporting bias, employing software modules for data collection, correlation, and analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If self-reporting and observation methods are used for profiling, then the profiling process is simple and direct, but the data obtained is unreliable due to conscious and subconscious biases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses the user's own digital devices to automatically collect empirical data about the user without requiring active participation or self-reporting. The devices serve themselves to gather data passively, eliminating the need for users to consciously provide information while reducing bias in the profiling process
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces digital devices as an intermediary between the user and the profiling system. These devices unobtrusively collect empirical data about the user's behavior and characteristics, acting as a mediator that eliminates direct observer influence and self-reporting biases while maintaining data accuracy
2Reliability
If observers directly watch and record person's behavior, then data collection is straightforward, but the observer's presence affects the observed person's behavior
Solution Approach 1:
The digital devices automatically and passively collect behavioral data without requiring human observers. The system serves itself by utilizing sensors, cameras, and other components within the user's own devices to gather information unobtrusively, eliminating observer presence and its associated biases
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of human observation with automated digital sensing and data collection mechanisms. Software modules and device sensors substitute for human observers, collecting behavioral data through computational means rather than human perception and recording
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AI summary
A KID's computer system is configured by PARENT-controlled software, giving each PARENT the power and responsibility to control the social media content being presented to their KID. The PARENT prescribes the criteria for action to be taken; and the PARENT prescribes the action to be taken by the KID's computer system. The PARENT-prescribed criteria comprises a list of BAAE-type states, e.g., emotional state. If one of these states is induced in the KID when they accessed the content from a Social Media Platform, then it triggers a PARENT-prescribed action. The list of possible PARENT-prescribed actions comprises at least the following: blocking the content, informing the KID, the PARENT, the Social Media Platform, School Authorities, Law Enforcement, Health Authorities of the KID's state, and archiving the event-data. The archived event-data is analyzed to discover harmful behavior patterns, e.g., lack of self-control, exhibited by the KID vis-à-vis social media content.