The Solution!
After much deliberation and analysis, we’ve arrived at the conclusion that the final solution is a toy! Not just any toy. This toy listens to you and tells you stories. The reason for choosing the toy as a solution is very deliberate. Among all the objects that a child has access too, they seem to be the most fond of, and spend most of their time with a toy. So much so that they even talk to them! The toy is not just an object but a friend, a confidant and a companion to many children across the world.
Unlike expectations, our toy doesn’t converse like most others. It has the golden trait of listening! Rather than actively conversing, our toy nudges children to speak about their problems to it. As the child starts to open up to the toy, the toy using a combination of machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision better understands the mood and demeanor of the child using verbal and non-verbal cues to better understand the child. Using this information, the toy intelligently extrapolates/uncovers the underlying cause for the child’s distress.
The usual response to this would be to instruct the child or make him feel better with sympathetic conversation. But we chose (with the precedence of established research) to not include such an interaction, which only introduced an additional figure of authority with diminished, if not futile effect.
Our primary interaction is storytelling. Leveraging the power of machine learning, we scan a huge library of pre-existing stories to pick the most encouraging and relevant story for positive intervention to help the child cope better with his/her day.