Personalized Thrill Ride Recommender Using ML

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional systems fail to provide personalized thrill ride recommendations at amusement parks, leading to issues such as slip and fall accidents, incorrect seat choices, and inadequate consideration of user health and preferences.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method using a machine learning model trained with ride data, user data, and crowd-sourced historical data to dynamically adjust recommendations for thrill rides, taking into account user health, preferences, and safety considerations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional systems provide general thrill ride recommendations without personalization, then device complexity is reduced, but user safety and experience quality deteriorate due to lack of consideration for individual health conditions and preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser safetyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments users into different groups based on their health conditions, age, and preferences using clustering algorithms. This segmentation allows the system to provide personalized recommendations for each segment while managing complexity through modular data processing and model training components that handle different user groups independently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a machine learning model as an intermediary between raw user data and ride recommendations. This intermediary processes and interprets complex user health data, preferences, and historical information, transforming them into safe and personalized ride suggestions without requiring the overall system architecture to become proportionally more complex.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If the system collects and processes extensive user data including health information and preferences, then recommendation accuracy improves, but data processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and storing user data, health information, and preferences in advance before the actual recommendation process. User profiles are pre-built and maintained in the database, allowing the machine learning model to quickly retrieve and process pre-organized data during recommendation generation, reducing real-time processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains continuous data collection and model training operations. As new user data and feedback become available, the machine learning model is continuously refined and retrained, ensuring that recommendation accuracy improves over time without requiring complete reprocessing of all historical data, thus optimizing the balance between accuracy and processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system uses machine learning models with crowd-sourced historical data, then recommendation personalization improves, but system complexity and training requirements worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation personalizationVSAvoidmodel training complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a universal machine learning framework that handles multiple functions: clustering users, generating recommendations, and providing safety assessments. This multi-functional approach allows the system to achieve high personalization and adaptability through a single integrated model architecture, reducing the need for multiple specialized systems and thereby managing overall complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where user responses to recommendations and actual ride experiences are collected and fed back into the machine learning model. This feedback loop enables the model to continuously learn and adapt to individual user preferences and health conditions, improving personalization over time while the automated feedback processing maintains system complexity at manageable levels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250148305A1Personalized thrill ride recommender
Publication Date: 2025.05.08 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Embodiments receive ride data, user data which comprises user information and other user data, and crowd-sourced historical data, train a machine learning model using a knowledge corpus which includes the ride data, the user data, and the crowd-sourced historical data, and dynamically adjust at least one ride recommendation based on the trained machine learning model.