Pronoun Mapping in Interactive Search Shells
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience when trying to search for information about objects within interactive experiences on computing devices, such as video games, as they must temporarily disengage from the experience to perform searches using separate applications, especially on devices without keyboards like virtual or augmented reality devices.
Innovation Solution
Implementing focus-specific search queries that determine and map pronouns in user input to objects of focus, generating targeted search queries based on user interactions, such as gaze or gestures, and executing these queries at the platform level to provide results without disrupting the user's experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users perform search queries using separate applications outside the interactive experience, then search functionality is available, but user engagement with the main experience is disrupted and time is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the search function with the main interactive experience by integrating a search shell into the platform level. This allows search operations to be performed within the same application context, eliminating the need to switch between separate applications and thus resolving the contradiction between search accessibility and time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The search shell is designed to be universally applicable across different applications and platforms. It provides a unified search interface that can operate within any interactive experience, making search functionality available without requiring users to leave the current application, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining ease of operation.
2Loss of information
If users leave the interactive experience to perform searches, then comprehensive search results can be obtained, but the user experience is disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the search functionality into a separate search shell that operates independently but integrates with the main application. This allows search operations to be performed without disrupting the main experience flow, while still providing comprehensive search results through the integrated search shell.
Solution Approach 2:
The search shell acts as an intermediary between the user and the search function, allowing users to access comprehensive search results while remaining within the interactive experience. The search shell mediates between the need for comprehensive search and the desire to maintain experience continuity by providing a unified interface that works within the platform.
3Device complexity
If pronouns in search queries are not mapped to specific objects, then search queries can be simple, but search results become less targeted and useful
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically mapping pronouns in search queries to specific objects before executing the search. This preliminary object mapping enriches the search query with contextual information about the focused object, improving search result relevance without significantly increasing the complexity of query processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The search shell incorporates feedback mechanisms that use the identified focused object to refine and enhance search results. By feeding back the object information into the search process, the system improves result relevance while maintaining relatively simple query processing architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
A computing device includes a logic machine and a storage machine holding instructions. The instructions are executable by the logic machine to, receive a machine-understandable representation of voice input, determine a pronoun associated with the voice input, map the pronoun to an object of user focus, generate one or more focus-specific search queries for the object of user focus, execute the one or more focus-specific search queries, and present the results of the one or more focus-specific search queries.