Sea Route Evaluation Device for User Motivation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing sea route evaluation devices do not provide user motivation to create optimal routes as they lack evaluation and feedback mechanisms, failing to assess and improve user-created sea routes effectively.

Innovation Solution

A sea route evaluation device that acquires user-created routes and evaluates them by comparing with AI-generated or past routes, providing clear feedback and navigation assistance information to enhance user motivation and route optimization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the device only provides sea route search functionality without evaluation, then the device complexity is low, but the user motivation to create optimal routes is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser motivationVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the evaluation unit assesses user-created sea routes and provides results back to the user. This feedback loop motivates users to improve their route creation by showing them how their routes compare to optimal routes, transforming a simple search device into an interactive learning tool that enhances user engagement and motivation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If the device provides detailed evaluation of user-created sea routes, then the user can identify good or bad aspects of their routes, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroute evaluation informationVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The evaluation unit acts as an intermediary between the user-created sea route and the optimal sea route generated by the search unit. It compares these two routes and provides structured feedback information to the user, eliminating the need for users to manually analyze complex route differences while maintaining manageable device complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If the device compares user-created routes with AI-generated or past routes, then the evaluation accuracy improves, but the processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-generating optimal sea routes using the search unit and storing them for comparison. This allows the evaluation unit to quickly compare user-created routes against pre-computed optimal routes without requiring real-time complex calculations, thereby maintaining high evaluation accuracy while reducing processing time during actual use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4059829A1Sea route evaluation device, sea route evaluation program, and sea route evaluation method
Publication Date: 2022.09.21 SUMITOMO HEAVY IND MARINE & ENG
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AI summary

Provided are a sea route evaluation device (100), a sea route evaluation program, and a sea route evaluation method that can increase the motivation of a user to create a sea route. A sea route evaluation device (100) includes an evaluation unit (13) that performs evaluation of a created sea route (R1) acquired by a created sea route acquisition unit (11). Therefore, the evaluation unit (13) can evaluate the created sea route (R1) of the ship created by the user. Further, the evaluation unit (13) can output the evaluation of the created sea route (R1) to the user. Therefore, the user can easily identify the good or bad of the created sea route (R1) created by himself/herself by referring to the evaluation result of the created sea route (R1). In this way, the user identifies the evaluation of the created sea route (R1) in an easy-to-understand manner, so that it is possible to increase the motivation of the user to create the sea route.