Trigger Detection System for Hidden Virtual Interactions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Creating an engaging virtual environment in online virtual worlds is challenging, as existing systems lack the ability to effectively initiate events based on hidden interactions and secondary meanings in user communications, such as secret languages and gestures, which can enhance user engagement and interaction.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that monitor communications between users in a virtual environment to detect explicit and secondary meanings in text strings and gestures, triggering specific events based on predefined associations, allowing for dynamic and user-defined interactions that unlock games or activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the system monitors all communications between users to detect hidden interactions and secondary meanings, then user engagement and interaction quality are enhanced, but system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (event monitor/trigger detection system) that sits between user communications and event activation. This intermediary automatically analyzes communications for triggers and secondary meanings, reducing the complexity burden on the overall system while maintaining enhanced user engagement through personalized event responses.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing users to define their own triggers and associations in the trigger definition data structure. Users can specify their preferred communication patterns, gestures, and desired events, making the system adaptable to individual preferences without requiring complex centralized configuration for each user interaction.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system provides personalized events based on user relationships and preferences, then user immersion and satisfaction increase, but data processing and pattern recognition complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining triggers and associations in a structured data format before runtime interactions. The system stores predefined trigger patterns, user preferences, and event associations in advance, allowing rapid pattern matching during communications without requiring complex real-time analysis, thus reducing detection difficulty while maintaining personalization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system utilizes parameter changes by varying event triggers and responses based on detected communication patterns, user relationships, and contextual factors. The trigger detection mechanism adjusts its behavior dynamically based on predefined parameters such as user preferences, relationship data, and communication context, enabling personalization through parameter variation rather than complex structural changes.
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AI summary
System, method, and computer program product to perform an operation comprising defining a plurality of associations between each of a plurality of triggers and a respective event, of a plurality of events, monitoring a communication in a virtual environment between a first user represented by a first avatar and a second user represented by a second avatar, the communication having an explicit meaning to the first and second users, determining that the communication has a predefined meaning between the first user and the second user, determining that the communication is defined as a first trigger, of the plurality of triggers, based on the communication having the predefined meaning, identifying a first association, of the plurality of associations, between the first trigger and a first event, of the plurality of events, and triggering the first event in the virtual environment based on the first association.