Virtual Space Privacy Distance for Selective Information Exposure
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Solution Overview
Problem
In virtual spaces, existing technologies struggle to effectively collect and confirm user experience information from third-party operators due to an operator-centered environment, leading to indiscriminate exposure of user information and limited personal privacy protection.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a privacy distance setting mechanism in virtual spaces that allows agents to interact within defined distances based on user preferences, relationships, and space purposes, with filtering and visualization controls to protect personal space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If information is exposed to all users in virtual space, then information availability is improved, but user privacy is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating information exposure based on spatial location and user relationships. Different regions of the virtual space have different privacy levels, and information is selectively exposed only to users within appropriate privacy distances, rather than uniformly to all users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new dimension of privacy distance in virtual space, creating a spatial hierarchy for information exposure. This additional dimensional control allows information to be available to relevant users while protecting privacy through distance-based filtering.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If privacy distance restrictions are implemented, then user privacy is improved, but information accessibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic privacy distance adjustments based on user actions, relationships, and contextual factors. Privacy distances are not fixed but adapt in real-time, allowing information accessibility to be optimized while maintaining privacy protection through flexible, context-aware distance management.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of privacy distance dynamically based on various factors including user relationships, virtual space context, and user preferences. This parameter adjustment allows the system to balance privacy protection with information accessibility by modifying distance thresholds according to situational requirements.
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AI summary
Disclosed are a method and system for providing privacy in a virtual space. The method of providing privacy in a virtual space includes setting a privacy distance for guaranteeing a personal space of a user agent in a virtual space, and filtering information exposable to the user agent in the virtual space based on the privacy distance.