Sensor Relay Feedback for Treadmill-Based Multitasking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies fail to facilitate effective multitasking by allowing users to process information while moving, as they are not designed to provide feedback or assistance related to movement, leading to decreased focus and attention span due to sedentary lifestyles and media multitasking.
Innovation Solution
The system incorporates sensor relays and computer processors that collect and analyze sensory information from users' movements, providing feedback to adjust movement devices such as treadmills or walkways, allowing users to engage in tasks like learning or exercise while moving, with audio, visual, or tactile feedback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users engage in sedentary information processing tasks, then information processing can be performed, but attention span and focus decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines information processing tasks with physical movement by integrating a movement device (treadmill) with a computing device. Users can process information while exercising on the treadmill, merging two previously separate activities into one unified system that simultaneously addresses both information processing and physical exercise needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates sensors that detect user movement and provide real-time feedback to adjust the movement device parameters. This feedback loop helps maintain optimal exercise intensity while users engage in information processing tasks, preventing attention span degradation by keeping the user physically engaged.
2Productivity
If media multitasking is performed, then multiple tasks can be handled, but task performance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The movement device parameters (speed, incline, resistance) are dynamically adjusted based on real-time sensor data about user performance and physiological state. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to optimize the exercise component while the user performs information processing tasks, maintaining task performance quality despite multitasking.
3Ease of operation
If feedback systems are added to movement devices, then movement coordination improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a computer processor as an intermediary that receives sensor data from the movement device, processes this information, and generates appropriate feedback signals. This intermediary component coordinates the complex interactions between sensors, movement device actuators, and information processing tasks, managing system complexity through centralized intelligent control.
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AI summary
The present disclosure contains embodiments of an apparatus, system and method designed to facilitate learning or efficient multitasking involving movement while one or more user's or users' movement devices process or respond to different stimuli to facilitate users moving while learning, working, or participating in a simulation. In some embodiments this may be accomplished with the aid of a circular treadmill, spherical walkway, or combinable modular trackpads that may be linked to allow a user to lay the apparatus in a path suited for a plurality of environments. The embodiments of the disclosure involve the user moving while processing information (via: learning; creating through typing, moving, talking; or being entertained) and receiving feedback, assistance related to that movement, processing, or any combination thereof while combining the motion of the movement device with the feedback loop sent from sensor relays a user may receive an optimal experience for learning while moving.