Wearable Augmented Reality Guidance for Adaptive Task Flows
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing augmented reality systems fail to provide personalized task guidance and feedback to users performing tasks differently, leading to inefficiencies and potential safety issues in environments where hands must remain free, such as manufacturing and retail operations.
Innovation Solution
An augmented reality system with a wearable device that includes sensors, detectors, and a processing unit to analyze user gestures and environmental data, providing personalized task guidance and feedback through interactive interfaces, and allowing communication with experts for assistance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional computer kiosks or workstations are used throughout the work environment, then workers can access information, but workers cannot move freely about the workspace and must leave their objects
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical computer kiosks and workstations with a wearable augmented reality device that displays information directly in the worker's field of view. This substitution eliminates the need for workers to physically move to fixed locations to access information, thereby improving mobility while the integrated nature of the wearable device keeps system complexity manageable
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable device acts as an intermediary between the worker and the computer network, bringing network access and information display capabilities directly to the worker's eyes. This intermediary approach allows workers to access information without leaving their objects or moving to fixed workstations, resolving the contradiction between mobility and information access
2Productivity
If generic task guidance is provided to all users, then implementation is simple, but users performing tasks differently receive inappropriate guidance leading to inefficiencies and safety issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic task flow optimization that adapts guidance in real-time based on individual user profiles, environmental conditions, and observed user actions. The system continuously monitors user behavior and adjusts guidance accordingly, transforming static generic instructions into dynamic personalized guidance that improves task efficiency while managing complexity through adaptive algorithms
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that monitor user actions and environmental conditions, then use this feedback to optimize task flows for individual users. By continuously gathering data on how users actually perform tasks and adjusting guidance based on this feedback, the system provides personalized instruction that improves productivity while the automated feedback loop manages the complexity of customization
3Manufacturing precision
If augmented reality systems provide detailed task guidance, then task completion accuracy improves, but users may experience cognitive overload and distraction from their primary tasks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing task guidance only in specific regions of the user's field of view rather than overwhelming the entire visual field. The augmented reality system displays information locally at relevant locations, such as overlaying instructions near the object being manipulated, which maintains task completion accuracy while preventing cognitive overload by limiting information density to only where needed
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements partial action by providing guidance information selectively based on the user's current needs and context rather than displaying all possible information continuously. The augmented reality display shows only the portion of task guidance that is immediately relevant to the user's current action, reducing cognitive load while maintaining accuracy by providing sufficient information at the right moment
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AI summary
A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for adjusting a task or a task flow in an augmented reality environment. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: identifying a first task in a task flow to collect data associated with a user performing the first task; collecting a first set of data associated with the user performing the first task; comparing an amount of time the user expends to perform the first task to a first threshold amount of time; and in response to the amount of time the user expends to perform the first task exceeding the first threshold amount of time displaying a notification lo the user or another device.