User Feedback System for Dynamic Delivery Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current delivery devices, such as e-cigarettes, lack responsiveness to the user's state, including mood and subjective needs, leading to suboptimal user interaction and experience.
Innovation Solution
A user feedback system that utilizes processors to obtain and analyze user factors like neurological, physiological, contextual, and use-based data to estimate the user's state and adjust the delivery device's operations accordingly, such as modifying the amount or type of active ingredients delivered.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If delivery devices operate with fixed parameters regardless of user state, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to user needs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors user state through multiple sensors (heart rate, temperature, motion, etc.) and adjusts delivery parameters accordingly. The feedback loop collects user state data, processes it to determine optimal delivery parameters, and modifies the delivery device operations in real-time to match user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The delivery device transitions from static fixed parameters to dynamic adjustable parameters. The system can modify delivery rate, active ingredient concentration, and other parameters based on real-time user state changes, enabling the device to adapt its behavior dynamically rather than operating with rigid predetermined settings.
2Measurement precision
If the system collects and processes multiple types of user data, then measurement precision of user state improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple data streams from different sensors (heart rate monitor, temperature sensor, motion detector, etc.) into a unified user state profile. By merging these diverse data sources, the system achieves more comprehensive and accurate user state measurement while managing complexity through integrated processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The data processing system serves multiple functions: it monitors physiological parameters, detects user state changes, determines optimal delivery parameters, and controls device operations. This multi-functional approach improves measurement precision while distributing complexity across a unified processing architecture rather than separate dedicated systems.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the responsiveness of delivery devices to the user's state, improving the user experience by tailoring the delivery of active ingredients to match the user's baseline levels and emotional state, thereby increasing satisfaction and well-being.
Implementation Method 1
electrical power is supplied to the heating element to vaporize the aerosol source (a portion of the payload) in the vicinity of the heating element, to generate an aerosol for inhalation by the user
Implementation Method 2
the heating element is used to heat but typically not burn a botanical such as tobacco, to release active ingredients thereof as a vapor/aerosol
Implementation Method 3
a wick or similar facility to transport a small amount of liquid from the reservoir to the vaporizer
Data Source
AI summary
A user feedback system for a user of a delivery device within a delivery ecosystem includes an obtaining processor adapted to obtain one or more user factors indicative of a state of the user; an estimation processor adapted to calculate an estimation of user state based upon one or more of the obtained user factors; and a feedback processor adapted to select a feedback action for at least a first device within the delivery ecosystem, responsive to the estimation of user state, expected to alter the estimated state of a user.