salmanoff/docs/design/intrin-thresholds.md

Intrinsic Threshold Parameters

Overview

This document describes quale-iface-api-params that control threshold values for constructing stencils and delivering them to SMO via postrinInd/negtrinInd with different importance levels. These parameters allow the stimbuff API library to determine when to construct a stencil for postrin or negtrin data and present it to SMO with appropriate importance classifications.

Interest Threshold Parameters

Synonyms:

• postrin-interest-percentage
• postrin-interest-pc
• postrin-interest-threshold
• postrin-interest-th (abbreviation for -threshold)
• interest-threshold
• postrin-interest
• negtrin-interest-percentage
• negtrin-interest-pc
• negtrin-interest-threshold
• negtrin-interest-th (abbreviation for -threshold)
• negtrin-interest

Description: These parameters denote the value at which the stimbuff API library should construct a stencil for the postrin or negtrin that it delivers for this DAPSpec's qualeIfaceApi's stimfeat, and present it to SMO via postrinInd/negtrinInd with the "importance" argument set to "INTERESTING".

Specification:

• The parameter is specified as part of the quale-iface-api-params in the DAP specification
• Parameters with the -percentage or -pc suffix are interpreted as percentages (0-100)
• Parameters with the -threshold or -th suffix are interpreted as absolute threshold values
• The -threshold suffix can be abbreviated as -th
• If multiple synonyms are specified, the lattermost (last encountered) synonym takes precedence
• Separate thresholds can be specified for postrin and negtrin using the respective prefixes

Example:

+idev|my-device|pcloudIntensity(postrin-interest-percentage=50|negtrin-interest-threshold=30)|livoxGen1-pcloudIntensity()|livoxProto1()|3JEDK380010Z39

This example sets the interest threshold to 50% for postrins (percentage-based) and 30 for negtrins (absolute threshold value).

Distraction Threshold Parameters

Synonyms:

• postrin-distraction-threshold
• distraction-threshold
• postrin-distraction
• negtrin-distraction-threshold
• negtrin-distraction

Description: These parameters denote the value at which the stimbuff API library ought to construct a stencil and deliver it to SMO via negtrinInd/postrinInd with the importance argument set to "DISTRACTION".

Specification:

• The parameter is specified as part of the quale-iface-api-params in the DAP specification
• The value is a numeric threshold that determines when stencils are constructed and delivered with DISTRACTION importance
• If multiple synonyms are specified, the lattermost (last encountered) synonym takes precedence
• Separate thresholds can be specified for postrin and negtrin using the respective prefixes

Example:

+idev|my-device|pcloudIntensity(negtrin-distraction-threshold=60|postrin-distraction-threshold=40)|livoxGen1-pcloudIntensity()|livoxProto1()|3JEDK380010Z39

This example sets the distraction threshold to 60 for negtrins and 40 for postrins.

Stupefying Threshold Parameters (Postrin)

Synonyms:

• postrin-stupefaction-threshold
• postrin-stupefaction
• stupefaction-threshold
• postrin-stupefying
• stupefaction
• stupefying

Description: These parameters denote the value at which the stimbuff API library ought to construct a stencil and deliver it to SMO via postrinInd with the importance argument set to "STUPEFYING".

Specification:

• The parameter is specified as part of the quale-iface-api-params in the DAP specification
• The value is a numeric threshold that determines when stencils are constructed and delivered with STUPEFYING importance
• These parameters apply only to postrin data (positive intrinsic stimuli)
• If multiple synonyms are specified, the lattermost (last encountered) synonym takes precedence

Example:

+idev|my-device|pcloudIntensity(postrin-stupefying=80)|livoxGen1-pcloudIntensity()|livoxProto1()|3JEDK380010Z39

This example sets the stupefying threshold to 80 for postrins.

Intolerable Threshold Parameters (Negtrin)

Synonyms:

• negtrin-intolerable-threshold
• negtrin-intolerable
• intolerable-threshold
• intolerable

Description: These parameters denote the value at which the stimbuff API library ought to construct a stencil and deliver it to SMO via negtrinInd with the importance argument set to "INTOLERABLE".

Specification:

• The parameter is specified as part of the quale-iface-api-params in the DAP specification
• The value is a numeric threshold that determines when stencils are constructed and delivered with INTOLERABLE importance
• These parameters apply only to negtrin data (negative intrinsic stimuli)
• If multiple synonyms are specified, the lattermost (last encountered) synonym takes precedence

Example:

+idev|my-device|pcloudIntensity(negtrin-intolerable=90)|livoxGen1-pcloudIntensity()|livoxProto1()|3JEDK380010Z39

This example sets the intolerable threshold to 90 for negtrins.

Notes

The way that SMO handles these importance levels is not yet fully worked out. For postrins, the distinction between "interesting" vs "stupefying" is somewhat reasonably intuitively clear, but how that meaning is given in code has not been worked out yet. Similarly, for negtrins, the distinctions between "interesting" vs "distracting" vs "intolerable" are not entirely clear in terms of how their handling will impose meaningful differences that will give meaning to their distinctions.

These parameters provide the mechanism for the stimbuff API library to classify and deliver intrinsic stimuli with appropriate importance levels, but the downstream processing and behavioral implications of these classifications within SMO remain to be fully defined.