Presentation Engagement Monitoring System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Employees often struggle with engagement during presentations due to distractions from personal communication devices and discomfort in asking or answering questions, leading to reduced participation and benefit from the audience.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system that monitors user interaction with personal devices during presentations, computes an engagement metric, and provides feedback to encourage active participation by rewarding users for focused attention and meaningful interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If employees use personal communication devices during presentations, then they can access information and communicate, but user engagement and attention during the presentation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by monitoring device usage patterns during presentations and providing real-time or post-presentation feedback to employees about their engagement levels. The server system analyzes data from mobile devices and delivers feedback that helps employees understand their attention patterns, enabling them to improve engagement while maintaining necessary device access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a server system and software application as an intermediary between employees and their personal devices during presentations. This intermediary layer monitors and manages device usage, filtering and controlling interactions to prevent distracting behaviors while allowing productive device use, thus mediating between the need for device access and the need for sustained engagement.
2Loss of information
If employees ask or answer questions during presentations, then knowledge sharing and understanding improve, but comfort level and participation increase causing disruption
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables preliminary action by allowing employees to submit questions during the presentation without verbally interrupting. Questions are captured through the mobile application and can be answered by the presenter at appropriate moments or shared with the audience, enabling knowledge sharing while maintaining presentation flow and employee comfort.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile application and server system serve as intermediaries that facilitate question submission and sharing without requiring direct verbal interaction during the presentation. This intermediary mechanism reduces the social pressure and discomfort associated with public questioning while still enabling active participation and knowledge sharing.
3Adaptability or versatility
If live streaming or recording presentations is implemented, then accessibility and flexibility improve, but real-time engagement and interaction decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements multi-functionality by enabling the same mobile application to support both live presentation viewing and recorded presentation access. The platform universally supports real-time interaction features (question submission, polls, chat) whether viewing live or recorded content, ensuring engagement capabilities are maintained across different accessibility modes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback mechanisms that work for both live and recorded presentations, allowing remote viewers to submit questions and receive responses. For recorded presentations, the system can provide delayed feedback or allow question submission that is answered in subsequent sessions, maintaining engagement opportunities regardless of presentation timing.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for encouraging user engagement during a presentation to a group of users in attendance at a presentation. When presentation mode is enabled at a user system, the user system monitors its user input and output systems to determine whether any of the user input and output systems have been interacted with during the presentation mode. Each time a processing system of the user system determines that any of the user input and output systems have been interacted with during the presentation mode, it communicates a message to a server system, which computes, based on messages received from the user system, an engagement metric for a user of the user system. This engagement metric indicates a level of engagement of that user during the presentation.