Temporary Group Activity Views for Virtual Meeting Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
In meta-verse environments for online meetings, users may miss group interactions and salient information due to avatars being positioned separately, leading to reduced user engagement, communication inefficiencies, and potential exposure of confidential content.
Innovation Solution
A system transitions viewing perspectives to temporary group activity views, assembling users based on affiliation and activity levels, allowing each person to see their group's reactions without intermingled team members, and controlling permissions for secure information sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If users are positioned separately in a large virtual environment, then the virtual environment can accommodate many attendees, but users cannot see group interactions and miss salient information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a camera as an intermediary device that captures group interactions and transmits them to users. The camera acts as a mediator between the group activity and individual users, allowing users to observe group dynamics even when not physically positioned near the group, thus resolving the contradiction between accommodating many attendees and maintaining visibility of group interactions
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a visual copy of the group interaction through camera footage and displays it to users. Instead of requiring users to be physically present near the group, the system generates a replicated visual representation of the group activity that can be viewed by any user, thereby preserving access to salient information regardless of user positioning in the large virtual environment
2Quantity of substance
If users are positioned separately, then the virtual environment scales to large numbers, but user engagement decreases due to missing group experience
Solution Approach 1:
The camera system serves as an intermediary that bridges the gap between physical separation and social connection. By capturing and transmitting group interactions, the camera enables users to remain engaged with group activities even when positioned separately in the scaled virtual environment, thus maintaining productivity and user engagement across large numbers of attendees
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides visual feedback to users through camera feeds that show group reactions and interactions. This feedback loop allows users to see the collective response to events (such as cheering or reactions to awards), maintaining their sense of participation and engagement even when not physically near the group, thereby preserving user engagement as the virtual environment scales
3Productivity
If a temporary view showing only group members is generated, then group synergy is enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the virtual environment into different view modes: the main general view showing all attendees and temporary focused views showing only specific groups. This segmentation allows the system to provide enhanced group experiences on demand without requiring the entire system to be complex, as the group-specific views are generated only when needed rather than continuously
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically generates temporary views based on detected group activities and user needs. Rather than maintaining fixed complex structures for all possible group views, the system adaptively creates and displays group-specific perspectives only when group synergy enhancement is required, keeping the overall system complexity manageable while providing enhanced group experiences when needed
4Loss of information
If detailed group views are provided, then communication effectiveness improves, but confidential information may be exposed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing different view permissions to different users based on their roles and the sensitivity of the content. Detailed group views are provided locally to authorized users who need them for effective communication, while confidential information remains protected from unauthorized access. This localized approach to information distribution maintains communication effectiveness where needed while preventing harmful exposure
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AI summary
The techniques disclosed herein provide promotion of meeting engagement by transitioning viewing perspectives to a temporary viewing perspective showing group activity. A system can show each person a view of a large virtual environment, e.g., in a stadium full of representations of meeting attendees. Each person sees the virtual environment from a point of view originating from each person's representation, e.g., a first-person avatar view. When a group activity meets one or more conditions, the system generates a new virtual environment model that shows detailed view of all people in a group, without showing members of other teams that may be intermingled with the group in an original environment. The system may transition each group member's view from the first-person view to a temporary view of the newly generated model that only includes group members. The temporary view can remain until the group activity drops below a threshold.