Virtual Assistant Negotiation System for Group Decision-Making
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current virtual assistants lack the capability to facilitate group decision-making among multiple users, failing to provide an effective negotiation service for users to reach a common decision that satisfies their requirements.
Innovation Solution
A virtual assistant negotiation system and method that involves a first electronic device controlled by an initiator transmitting event information to multiple participant devices, which generate and transmit candidate projects based on the event information, allowing the initiator to select recommended projects and make decisions based on opinions from a main participant, while considering participant weights and relationships.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If currently available virtual assistants are used to provide services for users, then various individual services can be provided, but they cannot provide negotiation service for multiple users to make a common decision
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the negotiation process into distinct functional modules: event information transmission, candidate project generation, opinion collection, and decision making. Each electronic device (initiator device and participant devices) performs specific segmented tasks, allowing the complex negotiation service to be built from manageable components while maintaining individual service capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual assistant system acts as an intermediary between multiple users, facilitating negotiation by transmitting event information from the initiator to participants, collecting candidate projects and opinions, and synthesizing decisions. This intermediary role enables negotiation capability without requiring direct complex interactions between all users.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a negotiation service is added to virtual assistants to enable group decision-making, then the versatility is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual assistant system performs multiple functions: it transmits event information, generates candidate projects, collects opinions from multiple participants, and makes decisions. This multi-functional design allows a single system to handle the entire negotiation process, improving versatility while managing complexity through integrated functionality rather than separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by having participant devices generate candidate projects based on event information before the final decision is made. This preliminary preparation of options simplifies the subsequent decision-making process and structures the negotiation flow, making the overall system more manageable despite its enhanced capability.
3Measurement precision
If the virtual assistant considers opinions from all participants and their relationships, then the decision quality is improved, but the processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by collecting opinions from participants on candidate projects and using this feedback to inform the decision-making process. The virtual assistant processes feedback from multiple sources (participant opinions, relationship data) to refine and improve the quality of the final decision, ensuring that decisions are well-informed while managing processing complexity through structured feedback loops.
Data Source
AI summary
A virtual assistant negotiation method is provided, which includes the following steps: transmitting an event information by a first electronic device corresponding to an initiator; receiving a plurality of candidate projects generated by second electronic devices corresponding to a plurality of participants according to the event information by the first electronic devices; selecting a portion of the candidate projects to serve as recommended projects by the first electronic device of the host; and making a decision according to the opinions, for the recommended projects, corresponding to the main participant among the participants by the first electronic device.