Abstract
Viewers watching educational videos such as students of technical subjects can sometimes experience difficulties in understanding concepts and nuances of a topic. In the absence of a live instructor, the student watching an educational video often finds it necessary to pause the video at difficult segments and search for resources external to the video, which is disruptive. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to detect that a user watching a video can benefit from additional explanation and automatically present a contextual nudge that offers additional in-video assistance just when the user is likely to require it. With user permission, interactions such as repeated back-and-forth navigation within the video, adjusting the playback speed, etc., are recognized as help-requested signals. A UI element suggestive of help is surfaced at or near the video seek-bar. The user can use the UI element to ask questions about a specific point in a video and get immediate answers sourced from the video or external sources, smoothly integrated as textual or AI-generated video explanations. The techniques represent an interaction paradigm that enhances comprehension while integrating seamlessly with video content being viewed.
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Recommended Citation
Sedouram, Ramprasad and Govindaraju, Raviteja, "Generating and Surfacing Contextual AI-generated Content During Video Playback", Technical Disclosure Commons, (November 13, 2025)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/8866