Custom XR Content Editing for Neurodevelopmental Therapy Personalization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual or augmented reality systems provide limited and inflexible environments, failing to accommodate the diverse individual characteristics, learning profiles, and needs of users, particularly in neurodevelopmental therapies and education, leading to inefficiencies in user engagement and progress.
Innovation Solution
Customizable virtual or augmented reality platforms and methods that allow for user profiling, real-time monitoring, and interactive editing of XR experiences, incorporating visual, auditory, and haptic stimulations, with graphical user interfaces and sensor integration to tailor content to individual user needs and goals, facilitated by human experts or AI.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a limited selection of XR environments is provided to all users, then the system complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but the adaptability to individual user characteristics and needs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The XR environment is segmented into multiple independent customizable parameters including visual settings (brightness, contrast, colors), auditory settings (volume, spatial audio, frequency ranges), haptic settings (vibration intensity, patterns), content difficulty levels, and interaction methods. Each parameter can be independently adjusted to match user profile data, allowing fine-grained adaptation without requiring complete environmental redesign.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes multiple environmental parameters based on user profiling data and real-time performance monitoring. User profiles store optimal parameter combinations for different sensory modalities and ability levels, enabling the system to adapt the XR environment by adjusting parameters such as visual stimulus intensity, audio frequency ranges, haptic feedback strength, and content complexity to match individual user characteristics.
2Reliability
If XR environments are customized for individual users, then the adaptability and effectiveness for specific user needs are improved, but the device complexity and difficulty of operation increase
Solution Approach 1:
User profiling is performed in advance before XR therapy sessions begin. The system collects and analyzes user data regarding sensory preferences, ability levels, and therapeutic goals to pre-configure optimal environmental parameters. This preliminary customization eliminates the need for complex real-time adjustments during therapy, as the environment is already optimized for the specific user's needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically generates and applies customized XR environment configurations based on user profile data without requiring manual intervention from therapists or users. The automation engine processes user characteristics and automatically adjusts visual, auditory, haptic, and content parameters, reducing operational complexity while maintaining high adaptability to individual needs.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple customization parameters are implemented for XR experiences, then the adaptability to diverse user profiles is improved, but the device complexity and time required for configuration increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous feedback loops that monitor user performance, engagement metrics, and therapeutic progress during XR sessions. This real-time feedback is used to automatically refine and adjust environmental parameters, eliminating the need for lengthy manual reconfiguration between sessions. The system learns from user responses and automatically optimizes parameters such as stimulus intensity, content difficulty, and sensory modalities based on observed effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
A single integrated user profiling system handles multiple customization dimensions simultaneously, including visual preferences, auditory preferences, haptic preferences, content difficulty, and interaction methods. The unified profiling approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate configuration processes into one efficient operation, reducing overall configuration time while maintaining comprehensive adaptability across all user characteristics.
4Measurement precision
If manual customization of XR content is required for each user, then the precision of matching user needs is improved, but the productivity and efficiency of the therapy process deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates customized XR environment configurations by processing user profile data through algorithmic parameter optimization. The automation engine matches user characteristics with optimal environmental settings across visual, auditory, haptic, and content dimensions without requiring manual therapist intervention for each parameter adjustment, thereby maintaining high precision while significantly improving therapy efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
Successful XR environment configurations are stored as reusable templates associated with specific user profile types or therapeutic goals. Once an optimal configuration is identified for a particular user profile category, it can be copied and applied to other users with similar characteristics, eliminating redundant customization work while maintaining precision through template-based parameter sets that have been validated for specific user types.
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AI summary
Provided are platforms, methods, and systems to customize virtual or augmented reality (collectively, XR) content for an individual or a group of individuals, such as to treat a user having a mental or neurodevelopmental disorder (e.g., autism), train or educate an individual (e.g., student) or a group of individuals, or otherwise attend to a special need of an individual or a group of individuals. A graphical user interface may be used to edit the XR content.