Sentiment Analysis for Dynamic Communication Session Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in identifying desired content on electronic commerce platforms due to overwhelming selections, leading to customer drop-out and loss of sales, as existing search and filtering processes are cumbersome and often fail to yield favorable outcomes.

Innovation Solution

A computer system analyzes user sentiment during communication sessions using a machine learning model to predict the likelihood of terminating a session without performing a desired action, presenting targeted queries to users based on their feedback, and dynamically modifying the session to retain their attention and encourage desired actions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional search and filtering processes are used to help users identify desired content, then users can access a wide selection of offerings, but the process becomes overwhelming and cumbersome, leading to customer drop-out

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveselection varietyVSAvoidsearch process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors user sentiment during communication sessions and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust the interaction. Sentiment analysis of user responses to queries allows the system to detect frustration or disengagement early, enabling real-time adaptation of the search and filtering process to prevent customer drop-out while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The communication session is dynamically modified based on user sentiment and machine learning model predictions. The system transitions from static search interfaces to adaptive conversations, adjusting query types, offering recommendations, and modifying session parameters in real-time based on user responses, thereby resolving the contradiction between providing versatile selection and maintaining operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Measurement precision

If the system presents more search options and filtering criteria to help users find desired content, then content identification capability improves, but user overload increases and desired actions decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent identification accuracyVSAvoiddesired action completion
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of presenting all possible search options and filtering criteria simultaneously, the system uses machine learning to identify and present only the most relevant partial set of options based on user sentiment and behavior. This selective approach maintains content identification accuracy while preventing user overload, thereby preserving productivity and desired action completion rates.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes parameters of the search and filtering process based on user sentiment analysis. When sentiment indicates user stress or disengagement, the system adjusts parameters such as reducing the number of displayed filters, simplifying query complexity, or shifting from broad search to targeted recommendations, thus maintaining identification precision without compromising action completion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If the system uses machine learning models to predict user behavior and personalize interactions, then user retention improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser retentionVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces sentiment analysis as an intermediary layer between the machine learning model and the user interaction. Rather than requiring complex models to directly interpret all user behaviors, the sentiment analysis component serves as a mediator that processes user responses and provides simplified signals to the ML model, improving user retention while managing system complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10915940B2Method, medium, and system for analyzing user sentiment to dynamically modify communication sessions
Publication Date: 2021.02.09 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A computer system analyzes user sentiment to dynamically modify a communication session. One or more user interactions are captured during a communication session, wherein a machine learning model is updated based on the captured user interactions. A likelihood score of a user terminating the communication session before performing one or more desired actions is calculated. In response to determining that the likelihood score is above a threshold value, one or more queries are presented, during the communication session, to the user, wherein the one or more queries are selected using the machine learning model. Received user feedback is analyzed to determine a user sentiment. The communication session is dynamically modified based on to the user feedback and the user sentiment. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for analyzing user sentiment to dynamically modify a communication session in substantially the same manner described above.