Personalized Sensory Environment Using Real-Time User State Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies fail to effectively address stress and distractions in real-time by not being responsive to individual user states and environments, often requiring user input or relying on static solutions that do not adapt to changing circumstances.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that utilizes sensors to detect user and environmental data, determining actionable descriptions to dynamically present personalized sounds, visuals, and environmental controls, such as lighting and temperature, based on user profiles and sensor inputs, without the need for user input, to create a tailored atmosphere for relaxation, focus, or other modes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If static solutions or pre-defined playlists are used, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to user state and environment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts sound and visual presentations based on real-time sensor data reflecting user state (heart rate, movement) and environmental conditions (weather, location). The transmission is not static but continuously adapts to changing conditions, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity by making the system responsive rather than fixed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses sensor output as feedback about user state and environment to automatically modify transmissions. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables adaptability without requiring complex user input processing, as the sensors continuously provide information about conditions that trigger appropriate transmission adjustments.
2Adaptability or versatility
If real-time sensor monitoring and dynamic adjustments are implemented, then adaptability to user state improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system integrates multiple sensor types (detecting user state, location, weather) and multiple output modalities (sounds, visuals, environmental controls) into a single multi-functional platform. This universal system handles diverse functions through a unified architecture, reducing the complexity burden that would arise from separate specialized systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically monitors sensors and adjusts transmissions without requiring user input or manual configuration. The self-service nature of the system, where sensors and processing work autonomously to adapt the transmission, reduces operational complexity while maintaining high adaptability to changing conditions.
3Reliability
If personalized transmissions are created based on multiple sensor inputs, then user experience quality improves, but loss of time for processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes user profiles containing baseline information and preferences before real-time operation. This preliminary setup allows the system to quickly process real-time sensor data against pre-configured parameters, reducing processing time while maintaining accurate personalization based on the user's specific state and environment.
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AI summary
A system and method of creating a personalized sounds and visuals environment to address a person's individual environment and state by receiving output from a plurality of sensors, the sensors detecting the activity of the user and the environment in which the user is active. Sounds and/or visuals to be transmitted to the user for listening and watching on the user's device are determined based on one or more of the sensor outputs, a user profile, a user mode, a user state, and a user context. The determined sounds and/or visuals are transmitted and presented to the user, and the determined sounds and/or visuals are automatically and dynamically modified in real time based on changes in the output from one or more of the plurality of sensors and/or changes in the user's profile.