Reputation Badge System for Video Chat Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video chat technologies lack features to enhance user interaction and engagement during real-time matching, particularly in providing a fun and meaningful experience through reputation badges and profile information.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that allows users to select and display reputation badges during video chats, recommending friends based on badge types, and displaying profile information with cumulative reputation counts, along with features like additional content during wait times and terminal shaking gestures for expressing good feelings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If reputation badges and profile information features are added to enhance user engagement, then user interaction and engagement are improved, but device complexity and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments reputation information into discrete badge types (e.g., kindness badge, honesty badge, helpfulness badge) that can be independently awarded and displayed. Each badge represents a specific reputation dimension, allowing the system to manage complexity by breaking down the overall reputation system into manageable, modular components that can be processed and displayed separately.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses visual badges as simplified representations or copies of complex reputation data. Instead of displaying detailed numerical scores or textual descriptions of user reputation, the system creates graphical badge icons that visually represent reputation levels, making the information more accessible and easier to process for both users and the system.
2Loss of information
If multiple reputation badge types are provided to represent different reputation information, then information representation is improved, but loss of information increases due to the need to manage and display multiple badge types
Solution Approach 1:
The reputation badge system is designed as a universal framework where a single badge structure can represent multiple types of reputation information. Each badge type serves multiple functions: it visually indicates reputation level, categorizes the type of reputation (kindness, honesty, etc.), and can be accumulated to show reputation history. This multi-functional design allows the system to represent diverse reputation information without creating entirely separate systems for each type.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds visual and categorical dimensions to reputation representation by introducing different badge icons, colors, and categories. Instead of relying solely on numerical scores, the system creates a multi-dimensional representation where each badge type adds a new dimension of information (visual appearance, category classification, accumulation count), enabling richer information representation without losing clarity.
3Loss of time
If additional content is displayed during matching wait time to improve user experience, then user engagement is improved, but loss of time increases due to extended wait period
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions during the matching wait time by pre-loading and displaying relevant content such as user profiles, potential match information, and reputation badge previews. This allows users to engage with preparatory content that enhances their experience while waiting, effectively utilizing the wait time productively rather than leaving users idle.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous useful action during the matching wait period by providing ongoing interactions such as displaying dynamic content, allowing users to browse profiles, and enabling preliminary engagement activities. This continuity ensures that users remain actively engaged throughout the wait time rather than experiencing idle periods, effectively converting wait time into productive user interaction.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing a reputation badge for a video chat. The method includes providing a video chat with another user selected through real-time matching based on a request from a user of the computer apparatus; and using a plurality of reputation badges representing different reputation information in the video chat.