Virtual-Space Avatar Control for Easier User Speaking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies fail to provide an environment where users participating in a conversation in a virtual space can easily speak due to other users speaking, as exemplified by Patent Literature 1, which only changes the arrangement of avatars without addressing speech issues.
Innovation Solution
A processing device and method that acquires user action data, generates control data to facilitate speaking, and activates avatars in a virtual space, utilizing terminals connected via a network to ensure users can easily speak by controlling avatar actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the arrangement of the avatar who has started the conversation is merely changed, then the avatar position is adjusted, but the user cannot easily speak due to other users speaking
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically adjusting the avatar's arrangement and displaying conversation UI elements before the user attempts to speak. This prepares the environment in advance, ensuring the user can speak easily when ready, without needing to manually configure the conversation interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The system serves itself by automatically detecting when a user wants to speak and autonomously managing the avatar arrangement and conversation UI display. This eliminates the need for complex manual controls, allowing users to simply speak while the system handles the complexity of conversation management.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users participate in a conversation in a virtual space, then the conversation functionality is enabled, but some users cannot speak due to other users speaking
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by providing specialized conversation UI elements and avatar arrangement specifically for users who want to speak. Each user receives tailored interface elements based on their speaking status, allowing multiple users to participate effectively without interference from others.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the avatar arrangement and conversation UI display based on real-time speaking status. When a user wants to speak, the system automatically updates the interface and avatar positions, enabling seamless conversation participation for multiple users without fixed roles or positions.
3Shape
If the avatar arrangement is changed in the virtual space, then the spatial positioning is adjusted, but the environment for easy speaking is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically arranging avatars and displaying conversation UI elements before the user speaks. This preliminary setup ensures the spatial arrangement supports easy speaking, combining positional adjustment with functional interface preparation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes multiple parameters simultaneously - avatar position, conversation UI display state, and interface element visibility - based on the user's speaking intent. This coordinated parameter adjustment creates an environment that facilitates easy speaking, rather than merely changing spatial arrangement.
Data Source
AI summary
A terminal includes: an acquiring unit that acquires action data of the user participating in the conversation in the virtual space; a generating unit that generates control data of an avatar corresponding to the user from action data of the user and generates control data indicating an action that makes it easy for the avatar to speak after detecting a prescribed action of the user who is about to speak in the action data of the user; a transmitting unit that transmits the control data; and a reproducing unit that makes the avatar active in the virtual space according to the control data.