Video Session Reaction Aggregation for Low-Clutter Group Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video communication platforms lack the ability for participants to easily share visual reactions during live group conversations, leading to a lack of immediate feedback for presenters and reduced engagement among participants.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows participants to select and display visual reactions within a video communication session, with the option to aggregate reactions from multiple participants when a threshold is met, providing presenters with overall sentiment feedback without distracting individual reactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If visual reactions are displayed for each participant individually, then participant engagement and expression are improved, but screen space and visual clutter increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple individual participant reactions are merged into a single aggregate reaction display. When multiple participants select the same reaction, their individual reactions are combined and displayed together, reducing screen clutter while preserving the engagement benefit of visual feedback.
Solution Approach 2:
The reaction display is segmented into different types: individual reactions for unique participants and aggregate reactions for multiple participants. This segmentation allows the system to display detailed individual reactions when necessary while consolidating redundant reactions to save screen space.
2Loss of information
If all participant reactions are displayed simultaneously, then complete feedback is provided, but presenter overload and distraction increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple reaction instances are merged into aggregate reaction groups. Instead of displaying each reaction separately which would overwhelm the presenter, the system combines similar reactions from multiple participants into consolidated visual groups, reducing distraction while maintaining feedback completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system displays a curated subset of reactions rather than all possible reactions. By showing aggregate reactions and selecting which individual reactions to display, the system provides sufficient feedback information without excessive visual stimulation that would distract the presenter.
3Illumination intensity
If reaction display duration is extended, then reaction visibility and impact are improved, but session flow and timing are disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
Reactions are displayed periodically with automatic timing controls rather than continuously. The system manages reaction display duration to provide sufficient visibility impact while automatically retiring reactions after appropriate time intervals, maintaining session flow without disruption.
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AI summary
Methods and systems provide for the ability to display reactions within a video communication session. First, the system displays, for each of a number of participants within a video communication session, a user interface (UI), with the UI including a reactions session with a variety of selectable visual reactions, a number of participant windows corresponding to participants, and videos of at least a subset of the participants which are displayed within the participant windows. The system receives a selection of a reaction via a video client device connected to the video communication session, where the client device is associated with one of the participants. The system then displays the selected reaction within the UI of at least one of the participants within the corresponding participant windows for a predetermined period of time. Aggregate reactions may be displayed when a number of participants select the same reaction.