Virtual Character Identifiability Control With Dummy Character Mediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users in virtual spaces experience displeasure due to interactions with other characters, necessitating a solution to reduce such feelings.
Innovation Solution
A program that functions as a setting reflection unit to manage the identifiability of characters, allowing a dummy character to appear based on user settings and sensing nuisance behaviors to execute specific controls.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a user can see and identify other characters in virtual space, then social interaction is enabled, but nuisance behavior from other users increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a dummy character that copies the appearance and behavior patterns of the first character, then displays this copy to the second user instead of the real character. This allows social interaction to continue while protecting the first user from nuisance behavior, as the second user interacts with a fake representation rather than the actual user.
Solution Approach 2:
The dummy character serves as an intermediary between the first user and the second user. It mediates their interaction by presenting a fake identity to the second user, thereby enabling social engagement while shielding the first user from potential harassment or nuisance behavior.
2Loss of information
If identifiability of characters is maintained for all users, then user identity is preserved, but user displeasure increases due to nuisance interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different identifiability qualities to different users viewing the same character. The first character maintains full identifiability for users other than the second user, but presents a dummy identity to the second user. This localized differentiation of information visibility preserves identity where needed while preventing displeasure where nuisance behavior occurs.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If dummy characters are used to protect users, then nuisance behavior is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates simplified copies (dummy characters) of user profiles rather than implementing complex anonymization or encryption systems. The dummy character contains basic appearance and behavior data that can be generated through straightforward data duplication and modification, reducing the need for complex protective infrastructure.
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AI summary
A program for causing a computer to function as a setting reflection unit which changes, for a virtual space which allows a character corresponding to a user to appear, an identifiability of a first character for a user operating a second character without changing the identifiability of the first character for a user operating a character other than the second character, based on predetermined setting which is performed for the second character by a user operating the first character.