Interactive Wearable Display for Location-Based Guest Safety Messaging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing amusement park attractions lack interactive wearable devices that can provide personalized greetings, notifications, and safety messages to guests while ensuring safe social distancing and adherence to safety equipment usage.

Innovation Solution

An interactive wearable device system featuring a display, location identification system, and automation controller that determines user location data and adjusts display content based on distance and safety criteria, providing personalized messages and ensuring safe interactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If wearable devices are used to display media content and notifications to guests, then guest entertainment and information delivery are improved, but device complexity and safety monitoring requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveguest entertainment and information deliveryVSAvoiddevice complexity and safety monitoring
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The wearable device integrates multiple functions including media content display, notification delivery, location tracking, and safety monitoring within a single device. The display device can show different types of content (entertainment media, safety notifications, directional information) based on location data, making it a multi-functional system that addresses both entertainment and safety requirements simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If location-based automation control is implemented to provide personalized greetings and notifications, then guest personalization and engagement are improved, but measurement precision and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalized greetings and notificationsVSAvoidlocation data precision and processing
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously receives location data from the wearable device, compares it against predefined location criteria, and automatically adjusts display content based on the guest's position. This feedback loop enables personalized greetings when guests enter specific zones, provides contextual notifications based on their location, and creates an adaptive experience that responds to guest movement in real-time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If safety notifications and social distancing monitoring are implemented, then guest safety and health protection are improved, but device complexity and operational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveguest safety and health protectionVSAvoidsafety monitoring system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The wearable device automatically performs location tracking and safety monitoring without requiring manual intervention from safety personnel. The system self-monitors guest locations, automatically detects potential safety issues such as unauthorized zones or social distancing violations, and triggers appropriate notifications or alerts, reducing the need for continuous human oversight while maintaining high safety standards.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12484643B2Interactive wearable devices and facial coverings
Publication Date: 2025.12.02 UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC
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AI summary

In an embodiment, an interactive wearable device system includes a display configured to face outwardly from a wearer of the interactive wearable device system. The interactive wearable device system also includes a location identification system configured to determine user location data related to the wearer and a separate individual. An automation controller is communicatively coupled to the display and the location identification system. The automation controller is configured to receive the user location data provided by the location identification system. The automation controller is also configured to determine the user location data satisfies at least one criteria and instruct the display to display an image based on the location data satisfying the at least one criteria.