Social Network Question-Answer System for Automated User Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current social network services (SNS) on portable information terminals lack effective mechanisms to promote user communication, as users must actively input content to disseminate information, leading to varying amounts of information shared based on individual motivation.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that includes a server and terminals, where the server stores question information and user relations, automatically selects questions, and transmits them to terminals, allowing users to input answers which are then shared with related users, using characters and animated representations to enhance engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users actively input content to disseminate information, then information dissemination occurs, but communication promotion is insufficient due to varying user motivation
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates and transmits information based on user inputs without requiring active dissemination actions. Users provide initial information once, and the system autonomously distributes it to relevant users, eliminating the need for continuous user motivation and active content creation for each interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes user relationships and information preferences in advance. When a user inputs information, the system has already prepared the distribution mechanism by storing relation information, enabling automatic and immediate dissemination to appropriate users without requiring real-time user decisions or actions.
2Ease of operation
If automatic question selection and answer sharing is implemented, then communication between users is promoted, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary that manages the complexity of automatic question selection, answer sharing, and user relationship management. This centralizes the complex processing logic on the server side, keeping terminal devices simple while enabling sophisticated communication facilitation through the mediating server infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system divides functionality into distinct modules: question information storage, automatic selection, answer acceptance, relation information management, and answer distribution. Each module handles a specific aspect of the communication process, making the overall complex system manageable through functional segmentation and independent operation of each component.
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AI summary
In an information processing system in which a plurality of terminals can communicate data through a server, a first terminal includes a question event processing portion which executes a question event to have a character displayed to a user who operates the first terminal and to output question information in association with the character, an answer acceptance portion which accepts input of answer information to the question information, and an answer transmission portion which transmits the answer information accepted by the answer acceptance portion to the server. A second terminal includes an answer reception portion which receives the answer information from the server and an answer event processing portion which executes an answer event to have a character displayed to a user who operates the second terminal based on the answer information received by the answer reception portion and to output the answer information in association with the character.