Virtual Agent Message Generation for Mental Condition Affinity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication systems lack the ability to provide automatic responses with high affinity corresponding to a user's mental condition, particularly in situations where anxiety or other emotional states need to be addressed.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that includes a database to store relationships between users and a control unit generating messages based on the mental condition of a user and their partner, using a virtual agent to send these messages, thereby providing automatic responses with higher affinity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If automatic notification is sent based on positional information, then the system can provide automated responses, but the response lacks affinity with the user's mental condition

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic responseVSAvoidaffinity with mental condition
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameters of message generation by incorporating mental condition data (detected via camera, microphone, wearable devices) alongside positional information. This allows the automatic response system to adapt message content, tone, and timing based on the user's emotional state, thereby achieving both automation and mental condition affinity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary detection and analysis of the user's mental condition before generating automated responses. By pre-analyzing emotional states through various sensors and preparing appropriate response templates in advance, the system can quickly deliver affinity-based automated messages without real-time delays

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If generic messages are sent to all users, then the system operation is simple, but the messages do not consider individual relationships or mental states

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage sendingVSAvoidrelationship and mental condition information
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by customizing messages for each specific user based on their individual relationship data and detected mental condition. Instead of uniform generic messages, the system tailors message content, tone, and timing to match each recipient's specific context, thereby preserving relationship and emotional information while maintaining operational simplicity through automated personalization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Measurement precision

If the system monitors user position continuously, then location-based notifications can be sent, but the system cannot detect the user's emotional or mental state

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositional informationVSAvoidmental condition information
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system achieves multi-functionality by integrating multiple detection capabilities into a single comprehensive monitoring system. It simultaneously tracks positional information through GPS/location services and detects mental conditions through camera (facial expression analysis), microphone (voice tone analysis), and wearable device (physiological data) integration, thereby capturing both spatial and emotional dimensions of user state

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

Data Source

PatentUS10673788B2Information processing system and information processing method
Publication Date: 2020.06.02 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

[Object] To provide an information processing system and an information processing method to enable an automatic response to be performed with higher affinity in accordance with a mental condition of a user.[Solution] An information processing system including: a database that accumulates a relationship between a user for which a virtual agent is substituted and a partner user as a communication partner on a network; and a control unit that generates a message in accordance with a mental condition of the partner user and the relationship between the user and the partner user, and sends the message from the virtual agent to the partner user.