Prompting Unit for Repetitive Application Events
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information-processing systems fail to effectively prompt users to share their experiences or feelings in a community setting, especially after repetitive events in application programs, leading to underutilization of social sharing features.
Innovation Solution
An information-processing system that includes an execution unit for executing application programs, a prompting unit to encourage users to post information when a predetermined condition is met, and a posting unit to share this information in a community service, such as a bulletin board or review site, using a post server to store and display user-generated content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users are left to post information voluntarily without prompting, then the system maintains simplicity, but user participation in community sharing remains low
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting when users have completed repetitive tasks in applications and proactively presenting posting opportunities before users would naturally think to share. The prompting unit prepares and displays posting interfaces in advance based on detected user behavior patterns, enabling users to share experiences without having to manually initiate the posting process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically monitoring user activity across applications, detecting completion of predetermined conditions, and generating posting prompts without requiring user configuration or intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously identifying posting opportunities and presenting them to users, reducing the need for complex user setup while maintaining simplicity.
2Productivity
If the system actively prompts users to post information, then community interaction increases, but the system becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The prompting unit serves multiple functions: it monitors user behavior across different applications, detects completion of various predetermined conditions, manages posting interfaces, and coordinates with information processing apparatus. This multi-functionality allows a single component to drive community interaction without requiring separate complex systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The posting interface acts as an intermediary between user experience and community sharing. It receives information from the prompting unit about completed tasks and translates this into a user-friendly posting opportunity, mediating between the complex backend detection system and the simple user action of sharing information.
3Ease of operation
If posting opportunities are presented frequently, then user engagement increases, but users may experience information overload
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by customizing posting prompts based on the specific application context and user behavior. Instead of generic frequent prompts, it presents targeted posting opportunities related to the specific task just completed, making each prompt relevant and valuable rather than contributing to information overload.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses periodic action by presenting posting opportunities at specific intervals triggered by task completion events rather than continuously. This periodic prompting based on natural task boundaries ensures engagement without creating information overload, as prompts appear only when users have meaningful content to share.
Data Source
AI summary
An exemplary information-processing system includes: an execution unit configured to execute an application program; a prompting unit configured to prompt a user to post to a service for sharing posted information, in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied a predetermined number of times in the application program executed by the execution unit; and a posting unit configured to post posted information corresponding to the predetermined condition to the service in accordance with a user input with respect to the prompting unit.