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20080199838 | System and Method For Facilitating Responsible Behaviour | 08-21-2008 |
20080213736 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMOTIONAL PROFILING - A method for emotional profiling comprises: obtaining, from plural respondents, non-verbal emotional response data, along with verbal responses; grouping the verbal responses according to the non-verbal emotional response data; and reporting the verbal and/or text-based responses by group. An apparatus for emotional profiling comprises: means for obtaining quantitative and/or qualitative emotional response data, along with verbal and/or text-based responses from participants; means for grouping response data and responses according to the quantitative and/or qualitative data; and means for reporting the verbal and/or text-based responses by group. | 09-04-2008 |
20080220400 | Method, Apparatus, And Computer Program Product For Stochastic Psycho-Physiological Assessment Of Attentional Impairments - A method, apparatus, and computer program product that provides, among other things, a procedure for the enhanced assessment of attention-related impairments of individuals. Further, the method, apparatus, and computer program product enhances existing assessment instruments by providing a way to reduce diagnostic error through the combining of the results of disparate assessment instruments. Potential users of this product will be any person or organization that diagnoses or treats persons with attentional or cognitive impairments. The method can be used for initial screening and diagnosis of disorders associated with impaired attention, such as ADHD, as well as for treatment and evaluation of the effects of treatments, such as medication or additional therapies. | 09-11-2008 |
20080220401 | THERAPEUTIC TOOL AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF - A therapeutic tool for use with a patient in psychotherapy is provided, the tool includes a central gyroscopic element, a plurality of concentric rings extending around the central gyroscopic element, and a plurality of outer elements removably disposed on the rings and configured to be movable around the rings, wherein the rings are pivotally associated with the gyroscopic ball, and wherein the gyroscopic element is configured to represent a seeing self of the patient and the rings are configured to represent a plurality of subpersonalities of the patient. | 09-11-2008 |
20080227064 | SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING INFORMATION COMPETENCY AND METHOD THEREOF - An information competency evaluation system and a method thereof are disclosed. The system selects an evaluation group containing an evaluation target from evaluation groups classified by business departments and business position. The system provides evaluation problems of evaluation domains to an evaluation target based on a selected evaluation group, estimates evaluation response received from a terminal of an evaluation target, and estimates EIIC by applying a weight of evaluation domains to a selected evaluation group. The system refers to a core evaluation domain according to EIIC and a selected evaluation group to determine an information competency maturity stage of an evaluation target. The system analyzes information competency of an evaluation target with EIIC and a maturity stage and by business departments and business position to provide the analysis to a terminal. The system analyzes and provides information competency with complex indicators of determining a level of information competency, and provides education information for development of an information competency of evaluation target. | 09-18-2008 |
20080227065 | Behavioral Modification System and Method - An apparatus and method are provided, for enabling communication between an administrator and a student regarding behavior activities of the student. The apparatus comprises (a) a transmitter configured to be carried by an administrator, and (b) a receiver configured to be carried by a student. The transmitter and receiver are configured to (i) be selectively placed in circuit communication with each other by an initiation signal originating from the transmitter or receiver, (ii) enable communication from the administrator to the student via the receiver regarding behavioral activities of the student or communication from the student to the administrator if the student feels a need to communicate with the administrator regarding behavioral activities of the student, and (iii) enable the receiver to communicate with the student in a predetermined fashion regarding behavior activities of the student in the absence of communications from the administrator. | 09-18-2008 |
20080248451 | Method and apparatus for improved memory retention - A method for improving human memory through the exploitation of the functions of both sides of the human brain that involves the reading of material aloud with one eye and the opposite ear covered and a second reading of the same material aloud with the other eye and the ear opposite the other ear covered and an headset apparatus for the facilitation of said method, with an optional recording mechanism that plays back in the ear of the plugged ear a recording read through a microphone that extends in front of the subject's mouth, said apparatus being usable on both sides of the human subject's head. | 10-09-2008 |
20080254420 | INTEGRATION OF PURSUIT OF GOALS WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY - A method. A first person is instructed by a second person to execute an activity. The activity includes performance of at least one physical exercise and recitation of words during performance of the at least one physical exercise. The recited words relate to at least one goal of the first person. The at least one goal is unrelated to and not a consequence of the at least one physical exercise. | 10-16-2008 |
20080254421 | Psychological disability evaluation software, methods and systems - Software for psychological disability evaluation and management includes at least one user interface geared specifically toward one or more of employers, psychological professionals, physicians, private or government agencies or officials, lawyers; insurance professionals, vocational rehabilitation counselors, physical or occupational therapists, or other persons or companies involved in psychological, psycho-social, and co-morbid disability evaluation and management. The software also has a database interface for accessing a database that collects and manages information relating to potential psychological disabilities and conditions, psycho-social concerns, as well as physical co-morbid concerns of employees/claimants/insured/patients. A psychological model framework based upon evidence-based psychological diagnosis, use of objective, standardized psychological testing, and best-practice treatment guidelines is incorporated into the software. The software also includes code for generating data outputs to help users evaluate and manage psychological, psycho-social, and co-morbid physical disability according to the psychological model framework in view of data collected by the database and interface. | 10-16-2008 |
20080261186 | Implicit attitude trainer - An automated method and computer interface for stimulating a user to develop and/or alter their implicit attitudes towards behavioural objects, such as dieting, alcohol consumption or exercising etc. The method comprising presenting a series of stimuli to the user within a test environment, each stimulus being associated with a behavioural object. The test environment may be a computer display screen, wherein the method designates a first zone within the environment as a positive behavioural association region and designates a second zone within the environment as a negative behavioural association region. The method further prompting the user to categorise each stimulus by moving the stimulus to either the first zone or the second zone, wherein positively categorising stimuli causes the user to develop improved implicit attitudes towards the behavioural objects associated with those stimuli in the first zone. The invention is particularly suited for implementation within web-browser and desktop environments. | 10-23-2008 |
20080268408 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN - This invention is a method to teach emotional awareness to children. The method uses a video to increase the child's emotional quotient. The emotional quotient is a measure like intelligence quotient that measures sensitivity to emotions. Because the video uses images it can be used with pre-literate or even pre-language children. It can also be used as a tool for teachers, parents and therapists who are using a larger education system or the video can be used by the child as a primary educational tool. | 10-30-2008 |
20080280275 | Hand washing timer - Generally, a material dispenser having reciprocal means which operates to deliver an amount of material from a material delivery conduit and generates timed indicia of elapse of a dispensed material use interval. Specifically, a hand wash dispenser having reciprocal means which operates to deliver an amount of hand wash material and generates timed indicia of elapse of a hand wash interval. | 11-13-2008 |
20080280276 | Virtual reality tools and techniques for measuring cognitive ability and cognitive impairment - Techniques and tools for measuring cognitive ability and/or detecting cognitive impairment or decline. For example, techniques and tools are described that can be used to diagnose or test susceptibility to cognitive impairments in children or in elderly people (such as cognitive impairments associated with Alzheimer's Disease). Techniques and tools are described that can be used to evaluate treatment effects and/or measure cognitive decline over time. | 11-13-2008 |
20080280277 | MOTIVATIONAL COACHING TECHNIQUES TAILORED FOR INDIVIDUALS - The present invention provides a way to determine if coaches' motivational techniques have an effect, either positive or negative, on an athlete's performance based on the athlete's personality factors. One exemplary study showed that there was significant correlation between a coach's motivational approach and at least the agreeableness of the athlete. Most athletes, especially those high in Agreeableness, achieve peak performance when exposed to the Positive Reinforcing Coaching Technique and experience increased levels of confidence; however, some athletes prefer the Demeaning Coaching Technique. Thus, an Individualized Coaching Approach is needed to effectively solicit peak performance from all athletes. Programs and methods for quickly devising such an individualized coaching approach using personality trait(s) of the athlete or any other subject are provided by the present invention. | 11-13-2008 |
20080299526 | METHOD FOR TEACHING PARENTING TOOLS USING SUPPORTING SOFTWARE - A method to support a user in acquiring parenting skills and knowledge according to the parent's chosen parenting-type, using an interactive software application (ISA). The ISA may comprise at least one database, a graphical user interface (GUI) and a business logic. According to embodiments of the present invention the ISA may allow a user to input a target parenting-type, fill a behavioral questionnaire, process the responses filled in the questionnaire, and display the target-rating, where the target-rating representation relates to the parent's selection of the target parenting-type, according to his/her beliefs, cultural background, personal preferences and the like. The responses given in the questionnaire may be associated with tools that are predefined in the ISA, where those tools may help the user in acquiring knowledge regarding the effect of the parent's responses to scenarios and situations upon the parenting-type and eventually upon the child's behavior and attitudes. | 12-04-2008 |
20080305461 | Multi-Sensory Teaching Kit and Method of Production - A multi-sensory teaching kit includes one or more edible items in symbolic shapes, a handbook including a glossary of meanings for the shapes, and a spiritual lesson. In some embodiments, a souvenir such as a jewelry bead is provided, with an optional text explaining the significance of the souvenir. A method of production of a multi-sensory teaching kit is provided, comprising, forming a cookie into a symbolic shape, writing a handbook including a glossary of meanings of the symbolic shapes, printing a lesson on a spiritual principle, optionally providing a souvenir, and optionally enclosing the cookie, handbook, lesson, and optional souvenir in a container. | 12-11-2008 |
20090081626 | System and method for assessing cognitive function and measuring treatment efficacy - Embodiments of the invention described herein relate generally to a method for assessing cognitive function and measuring treatment efficacy. Assessing the efficacy of clinical treatments is important for development of new interventions, for example drugs, gene, protein or antibody therapies, as well as for monitoring patient responses to approved and prescribed therapies. It is feasible to use modified versions of tests developed for experimental animals, such as primates or canines, to evaluate cognition in humans. Because the tasks are non-verbal, individuals with severely limited cognitive abilities can be objectively evaluated. Inferences can be made about the human neuropathology because the neural substrates underlying the ability to perform these tasks in animals have been delineated. | 03-26-2009 |
20090087824 | Psychological Testing Method Using Reduced Time Period for Greater Accuracy - A method is disclosed wherein a subject of a psychological test is asked for information as to the subject's condition over the three days preceding the test, or over any interval of time less than seven days, and specifically articulating the hours and days that are to be addressed in that three-day interval or any time interval that is shorter than a one week time interval leads to more precision, less errors, and more consistency of answers from the test taker. | 04-02-2009 |
20090098518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY THINKING CODE LEVEL EVALUATION - A system and method are provided for identifying ranges of scores in thinking areas that are indicative of individuals that perform at top levels. A position within an organization is identified. One or more individuals are identified as people that perform at a top level in that position. Each of the identified individuals is evaluated against a full time equivalent at the position. Each of the identified individuals is also scored in particular thinking areas. In some embodiments, the scores are based on the answers given by the identified individuals to a questionnaire. Characteristics of various workers are prioritized as to their desirability in a person performing the functions of the identified position. Based on the scores in particular thinking areas for the identified individuals, the full time equivalent evaluations for the identified individuals, and the prioritization of worker characteristics, a determination is made of ranges of scores in at least one of the thinking areas that are characteristic of persons who perform at top levels in the identified position. | 04-16-2009 |
20090111076 | Method for teaching critical thinking - A method for teaching critical thinking to students, using pre-selected teaching materials relating to a pre-selected subject having at least one concept relating to the pre-selected subject, consists of teaching the students to identify the concept under consideration (Step | 04-30-2009 |
20090130640 | N-BACK EXERCISE FOR TRAINING COGNITION - Computer-implemented method for improving cognition. Multiple first and second stimulus elements are provided, where some of the second elements correspond to the first elements. A sequence of first stimulus elements is presented, each element presented for a duration separated by an interval. After a specified delay period, equal to the duration plus the interval, times a non-integer factor N, a sequence of groups of second elements is presented concurrently with the sequence of first elements, where each group includes a matching second element that matches a corresponding first element presented earlier by the specified delay period, i.e., presented N first elements back. For each presented group, the participant indicates the matching second element, or a second element in the group that doesn't match. The delay period is modified based on whether the participant responded correctly. The presenting, presenting, requiring, determining, and modifying are repeated in an iterative manner. | 05-21-2009 |
20090136909 | INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP EVALUATION DEVICE, INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP EVALUATION METHOD, INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP EVALUATION SYSTEM, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - An interpersonal relationship evaluation method includes the steps of: obtaining position information obtained at each of the two or more terminal devices over a plurality of points in time; and calculating a mean value of distance between the respective terminal devices with a point in time as a target wherein a predetermined condition holds to obtain the mean value as an interpersonal relationship evaluation value regarding each terminal device user. | 05-28-2009 |
20090148819 | Motivate and award system with escrow accounts to reserve and store specific selected or requested awards - A system and method to award a person to engage and complete a designated activity by setting up an escrow account with monetary funds or award items ready to reward the person immediately following the completion of the activity. The timeliness of the award can enhance the effectiveness of the motivation system. | 06-11-2009 |
20090155753 | Behavior Tracking with Tracking Pods - In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for tracking behavior is described. The system includes at least one computing device adapted to receive data from at least one tracking pod, generate at least one report utilizing at least a portion of the data, and provide a user access to the data and the at least one report. The data indicates a behavior. | 06-18-2009 |
20090155754 | COGNITIVE FUNCTION INDEX - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for creating a cognitive function index. In one aspect, a method includes receiving first information concerning a person, the first information specifying the person's responses, and lack thereof, for components of a cognitive test administered to the person; generating a cognitive function score for the person by comparing the first information with second information concerning a group of people to whom the cognitive test has been administered; converting the cognitive function score to a value in an index comprising a range of values, wherein a first portion of the range corresponds to a cognitively impaired zone, a second portion of the range corresponds to a cognitively normal zone, and a third portion of the range corresponds to a zone of uncertainty defined by a confidence interval centered on a mid-point of the index; and providing the indexed value for the person. | 06-18-2009 |
20090155755 | TIME-BASED LEARNING AND RECALL PROCESS - A time-based learning and recall process is provided. The process associates a plurality of tasks or thoughts with a number on a flashcard that accordingly corresponds to a specific hourly time block memorized in conjunction with an adjustable clock. After memorization, the user is reminded of that task or process corresponding to that particular hour of the day as identified with, for example, a timepiece face. | 06-18-2009 |
20090170055 | Emotional-condition control - A self-implementable method for promoting a positive personal emotional condition in response to certain contra-stimuli including at least one of (a) the onset, and/or (b) the expected onset, of a defined-category event. The method includes the steps of (a) choosing a repeatable, normal-delivery-pace message pattern, (b) associating the chosen pattern with an internalized practice of implementing the mentioned promoting activity, (c) storing the chosen pattern in at least one, selected, personally proximate message-pattern storage medium, and (d) on the occurrence of such a contra-stimulus, deploying from the selected storage medium at least one personally engaging, normal-delivery-pace occurrence of the stored message pattern. | 07-02-2009 |
20090191523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR | 07-30-2009 |
20090191524 | Method and apparatus for analyzing pattern colorings and evaluating psychological status or disorders in art therapy - A method and apparatus for analyzing pattern colorings and evaluating various psychological symptoms or disorders in art therapy are disclosed. The method suggests performance-related elements such as completeness, accuracy and degree of concentration as elements, can objectively and quantitatively rate these elements as well as various color-related elements, can detect the changes of these elements in pattern colorings, can estimate the levels and changes of psychological symptoms and disorders and determine whether the symptoms and disorders are serious or not, can acquire various kinds of knowledge in the field of art therapy and establish a knowledge base, and can interpret the pattern colorings based on the analysis and knowledge base. The apparatus consists of units obtaining inputs of characteristics of clients, analyzing and rating the various elements in the pattern colorings, and outputting various kinds of information to the clients, parents, teachers, and art therapists. | 07-30-2009 |
20090191525 | Method and device for diagnosing and applying treatment for the emotional, physical, and cognitive development of a child for a multicultural society - The present invention relates to a method and device for diagnosing and applying treatment for the emotional, physical, spiritual, and cognitive development of a child by presenting illustrations having social and emotional attributes so the emotional, physical, spiritual, and cognitive levels of the child can be further developed in our multicultural society. This is a pyramid with hand/finger puppets, emotional faces, intellectual, educational and physical attributes. | 07-30-2009 |
20090191526 | BEHAVIOR IMPROVEMENT SUPPORT APPARATUS AND BEHAVIOR IMPROVEMENT SUPPORT METHOD - A behavior improvement support apparatus for presenting information to prompt reduction of environmental load imposed by a user's living space, stores in a memory, in regard to a plurality of parameters each having a plurality of values for specifying presentation methods of the information, one of the values of each parameter, presents the information during a given period of time, based on the one of the values of each parameter stores in the memory, measures the amount of emission of the environmental load imposed by the living space during the period of time, evaluates, based on the amount of emission of the environmental load during the period of time, an effect of the one of the values of each parameter used when the information is presented, and updates, based on an evaluation result, the one of the values of at least one of the parameters stored in the memory. | 07-30-2009 |
20090202966 | Method For Assessing Auditory Attention And Vigilance - Provided are methods for assessing the attentional state of a subject by scoring the subject's response to auditory stimuli. The methods can be used to diagnose psychological and behavioral disorders, such as attention deficit disorder or hyperkinetic disorder. | 08-13-2009 |
20090239203 | Apparatus and method for developing emotional literacy - Embodiments of the invention provide an apparatus and method for developing emotional literacy. Embodiments of the invention may be best suited for teaching preschool children, but the invention is not limited thereto. An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus for teaching emotional literacy that includes: a first plurality of holding bins; a plurality of emotion cards; and a mirror disposed proximate to the first plurality of holding bins. Another embodiment of the invention provides a method for using the aforementioned apparatus that includes: observing the user depositing a selected one of the plurality of emotion cards into a selected one of the first plurality of holding bins; and discussing the expressed emotion with the user. | 09-24-2009 |
20090246745 | System and method for guiding next step adaptive behavior - The system and method of the present invention process clarified emotional response data in order to guide next step adaptive behavior. Emotional responses with predetermined clarified intensities are sorted. The best quality clarified intensity or intensities are then selected as the ‘heart of the matter’, which is then shown to a user to reveal how the user is most uniquely responding to a particular subject or issue. The user is then given guidance on how to respond to the particular subject or issue thereby guiding the user's behavior in response to such subject or issue. | 10-01-2009 |
20090253108 | METHOD FOR TESTING EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING - A method testing executive functioning of a subject includes determining the subject's performance ceiling for performing at least one task and then measuring the subject's efficiency at performing the task at a difficulty level just below the performance ceiling, first without additional distractions and then with additional distractions. The subject's executive functioning is then determined by comparing the subject's efficiency without additional distractions to the subject's efficiency with additional distractions. In one embodiment, the method can be implemented in a game-like format. | 10-08-2009 |
20090258334 | Human amalgamation ratiocination process sublimation system - A computer implemented process for evaluating a person's employment potential including the steps of: | 10-15-2009 |
20090275006 | Method and system for developing and administering subject-appropriate implicit tests of association - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to developing and administering subject-appropriate ITAs. Various embodiments of the present invention evaluate many aspects of ITA content, content presentation, and administration with regard to particular categories of test subjects in order to develop subject-appropriate ITAs (“SAITAs”) and to administer SAITAs appropriately to the categories of test subjects for which the tests are developed. Aspects of SAITA presentation and administration that are evaluated include input devices, presentation formats, presentation language, presentation media, colors used in presentation of tutorials and stimuli, words, pictures, and symbols used in a presentation of tutorials and stimuli, the pace and length of various portions of SAITAs, human vs. computer administration of SAITAs, presentation of feedback to test subjects during SAITAs, ITAs and many other aspects of ITA content, content presentation, and administration. Embodiments of the present invention employ systematic methods for both development and administration of SAITAs. | 11-05-2009 |
20090286215 | Method for reducing the use of antipsychotic medications - A method to reduce or discontinue the use of antipsychotic medications in a patient, comprising a multidisciplinary team with members including a physician, psychiatrist, pharmacist, nurse, antipsychotic social worker and a therapeutic recreationist; wherein said members are in communication with each other to monitor and taper the use of antipsychotic medications and to substitute sustainable behavioral interventions on the patient. | 11-19-2009 |
20090298025 | Object recognition testing tools and techniques for measuring cognitive ability and cognitive impairment - Techniques and tools for measuring cognitive ability and/or detecting cognitive impairment or decline. For example, techniques and tools are described that can be used to diagnose or test susceptibility to cognitive impairments in children or in elderly people (such as cognitive impairments associated with Alzheimer's Disease). Techniques and tools are described that can be used to evaluate treatment effects and/or measure cognitive decline over time. | 12-03-2009 |
20090298026 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - A system for administering a neuropsychological test using a digital pen and paper system includes various recognition modules for interpreting ink markings applied by the digital pen to a digital testing document. The recognition modules may interpret handwriting, symbols, sketches, etc. In addition, the system may include one or more error correction modules for detecting and correcting test-taker-driven errors or recognition-driven errors. The error correction module may operate in real time to communicate with the test taker, may be employed before a normalizing and scoring process or some combination of both. In one embodiment, normalized data or automatically determined test scores obtained after appropriate correction may be transmitted to a patient record or file to await a review and possible diagnosis by a mental health provider. | 12-03-2009 |
20090298027 | PERSONALITY PROFILE ANALYTICAL TOOL - A method of analyzing a person's personality profile is in accordance with the present invention. The method includes the following: (a) analyzing a first element to determine a first primary attribute for the person, wherein the first primary attribute is characterized as being an attribute that is predominant with respect to the first element, and the attribute is selected from the group consisting of saturated, whitened, grayed, and blackened; (b) analyzing at least a second element to determine at least a second primary attribute for the person, wherein the at least second primary attribute is characterized as being the attribute that is predominant with respect to the first element; (c) correlating the first primary attribute with the at least second primary attribute to obtain a correlated primary attribute; and (d) identifying personality characteristics related to the correlated primary attribute. | 12-03-2009 |
20090305205 | Tottie Trainer - Programmable potty training device attachable to child, reminding Toddler to not forget potty time after meals. Accordingly, persuading child to go to restroom. Device attached to child activates device in restroom relaying charismatic character teaching sanitary proper potty training techniques. | 12-10-2009 |
20090317779 | TIME-OUT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM - A method of educating a child during a time-out period. A caregiver identifies a child misbehaving and isolates the child from any distractions. The caregiver then selects an educational time-out presentation from a plurality of educational time-out presentations by topic based on the child's misbehavior. After the child views the educational time-out video, caregiver continues to monitor the child to confirm if the child is behaving in accordance with the educational time-out video. Each educational time-out presentation includes a non-threatening yet authoritative figure that leads the child through an educational process using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic methods wherein the child learns to make more appropriate decisions about how to behave. | 12-24-2009 |
20100003653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED BEHAVIORAL COACHING - A system and method for automated coaching to help a person constrain their consumption or other behavior. The constraint may comprise food in general (e.g., calories), may be a specific food component (e.g., sodium, sugar, caffeine), or may be some other substance (e.g., alcohol, cigarettes). The system tracks the user's consumption of the constrained item(s) and offers the person one or more automated coaches to help them make consumption decisions. To help constrain a user's caloric intake, an automated coach offers the user one or more suggestions at the time of a meal event (e.g., lunch, snack, dinner). Each suggestion comprises a number of calories that the user can consume without exceeding a target maximum for the day or other period of time. | 01-07-2010 |
20100009324 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POST CLINICAL TREATMENT OF DEPENDENCY RELAPSES - Selecting a portable recording device having a selection menu with controls coordinated with an index to recall therapeutic signals to reproduce stimuli corresponding with pre-recorded stimuli to treat the patient. | 01-14-2010 |
20100009325 | Psychological Testing or Teaching a Subject Using Subconscious Image Exposure - The present invention relates to a psychological method for testing or subconsciously teaching a subject. The method involves varying a subconscious exposure time period of a visual subconscious stimulus displayed to a subject in order to determine an effective subconscious exposure time period specific to the subject. To subconsciously test the subject, the method further uses a masking stimulus following the visual subconscious stimulus, both images having common image characteristics including brightness and contrast. The masking stimulus is made from scrambled subcomponents of the visual subconscious stimulus. The invention also describes an apparatus for psychological testing capable of varying a subconscious exposure time period of a visual subconscious stimulus displayed to a subject in order to determine an effective subconscious exposure time period specific to the subject. The apparatus also uses a mosaic generator to generate a masking stimulus from a visual subconscious stimulus. | 01-14-2010 |
20100009326 | PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE ESTIMATION DEVICE - Disclosed is a psychological state estimation device for estimating the psychological state of a subject. A psychological state estimation device for estimating the psychological state of a subject includes bioinformation acquiring means for acquiring bioinformation of the subject, perception response acquiring means for acquiring the perception response of the subject to an external event, influence degree acquiring means for acquiring the degree of influence on a change in the psychological state of the subject on the basis of the acquired perception response, and estimating means for estimating the psychological state of the subject on the basis of the bioinformation and the degree of influence on the change in the psychological state. | 01-14-2010 |
20100015583 | Computational System and method for memory modification - Systems and methods are described relating to accepting an indication of a memory-dampening agent; and presenting an indication of an artificial sensory experience at least partially based on accepting an indication of a memory-dampening agent. | 01-21-2010 |
20100015584 | Behavior Modification with Intermittent Reward - The invention relates to simple yet effective methods, referred to herein as Dynamic Intermittent Reward or Reinforcement (DIR), and systems, to increase the frequency of a desired behavior in a user, and optimize cost-effectiveness of a reward system. A principal benefit of the new methods is the ability to provide tailored intermittent rewards for one or more users over time. The invention further relates to other methods, referred to herein as Tabular Intermittent Reward or Reinforcement (TIR), and systems, to administer intermittent rewards without an element of chance. | 01-21-2010 |
20100021873 | STRESS REDUCTION - According to the method and system described the usage of keyboard and mouse by a computer user is analyzed ( | 01-28-2010 |
20100028839 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING MEMORY AGENTS - The present invention provides methods and systems for identifying, evaluating, and testing various compounds as memory agents and regimens as training protocols related to memory enhancement and/or impairment. Such methods and systems may test any compounds or protocols, including the memory agents and training protocols described herein. The methods can comprise combining training protocols with the general administration of memory agents. In some embodiments, the present invention may involve identifying, selecting, testing, evaluating or assessing a compound as a drug candidate for a memory agent, for example, as one effective for enhancing or impairing memory. | 02-04-2010 |
20100035220 | ON-LINE STUDENT SAFETY LEARNING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing educational content and testing over the internet in order to teach students (e.g., college students) safe, responsible attitudes, values, and behaviors that will lower incidents leading to liability, and hence lower liability insurance for entities, including schools, attended by such students. Software modules provide the educational materials and testing materials as well as data mining techniques to determine which member attributes of that entity, or groups of member attributes, are statistically likely to be at risk for a liability situation or are in danger of harmful activity. The data mining combined with statistical analysis also enables the entity to ensure that students with certain attributes receive customized content addressed to the student's particular issues and provides for follow-up to verify that the students indeed learn the customized content. For example, the learning materials may relate to student safety and/or sociological and/or psychometric risk factors of the students. | 02-11-2010 |
20100035221 | BEHAVIOR CHANGE TOOL - Method for assisting a person in changing a behavior, e.g., smoking, by employing multiple steps, including e.g., having the person assess, quantitatively, the degree of readiness to change, having the person assess, quantitatively, the difficulty of changing a given behavior, having the person list benefits and obstacles involved in changing the behavior, and devising a strategy for changing the behavior, that includes positive reinforcement and self-efficacy. | 02-11-2010 |
20100041001 | VISUAL DIVIDED ATTENTION TRAINING - Computer-implemented method for enhancing cognition of a participant. A first target image of a set of target images is visually presented for a specified presentation time at a first location in a visual field that includes multiple peripheral locations, each at least a specified distance from the first location. Substantially simultaneously, a first peripheral location in the visual field is visually indicated for the presentation time, after which the visually presenting and indicating are ceased. Candidate target images with a specified discriminability are visually presented, including the first target image. The participant is required to select the target image from among the candidates. If the participant correctly selected the first target image, the participant is required to select the first peripheral location from the multiple peripheral locations. The presentation time is adaptively modified based on the correctness/incorrectness of the participant's selections. The process is repeated to improve the participant's cognition. | 02-18-2010 |
20100041002 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE HAVING FUNCTION OF MEASURING MENTAL FATIGUE AND ITS MEASURING METHOD - A portable terminal device ( | 02-18-2010 |
20100055655 | Computerized Systems and Methods for Self-Awareness and Interpersonal Relationship Skill Training and Development for Improving Organizational Efficiency - A computerized training system and methods are provided for training an individual in self-evaluation and to interact with a partner. The training system and methods comprise an intelligence assessor to identify an intelligence makeup of the individual by scoring a completed intelligence questionnaire. Intelligences include Logic, Emotion and Intuition. An asset assessor assesses the strength of Three Assets of the individual by scoring a completed asset questionnaire. Assets include a Technical, a Psychological, and a Relational asset. A perception assayer identifies a dominant Perceptual Orientation of the individual by cross referencing the intelligence makeup with the viewpoint of the individual. An aggregator collects the profile information of the individual to generate an innate profile report and a self-insight report of the individual. A facilitator aids in exploring the insight report. A synchronizer may synchronize the individual with a partner by forming a dyad between the individual and the partner. A trainer may also train the individual to resolve conflicts with the partner. | 03-04-2010 |
20100068684 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRAINING OF A USER - A training device for training at least one user comprising a user output interface ( | 03-18-2010 |
20100068685 | SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING COGNITIVE ABILITY OF A SUBJECT - A system for evaluating cognitive ability of a subject includes a display unit, an input unit, and a way-finding test module including a database and a test processor. The database stores two-dimensional map data and a three-dimensional model of a virtual environment. The three-dimensional model is comprised of surface elements representing features visible in the virtual environment. The test processor is operable to control the display unit to generate a map image corresponding to the two-dimensional map data during an initial stage of a way-finding test. The input unit is operable by the subject during a subsequent stage of the way-finding test to provide control signals to the test processor. The test processor is responsive to the control signals to select the surface elements corresponding to the features in the virtual environment that become visible, and to control the display unit to generate three-dimensional animation. | 03-18-2010 |
20100092934 | METHOD TO DETERMINE THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF ENTERTAINMENT OR INDIVIDUAL PRESENTERS - A method for determining the psychological impact of entertainment material having at least first and later episodes, the method including the steps of: (a) presenting a first episode to a target group of subjects, (b) after a predetermined period of time, presenting the later episode to the target group of subjects; (c) determining brain activities of the target group of subjects whilst the later episode is being presented to the target group of subjects; and (d) evaluating the psychological impact of the entertainment material by reference to the levels of brain activities determined in step (c). The method of presenting material and determining brain activities also being used for determining the suitability of an actor from a group of actors or selecting a person from a group of persons for a public role. | 04-15-2010 |
20100120004 | SYMBOLTEC - Our subconscious is much smarter than our waking mind but our dreaming mind can be trained to learn a technique (Symboltec) that makes communication between the two accurate, fast and easy. A chart with symbols and a code is all that is needed to ask questions which the dreaming mind answers in its own universal language, that is pictures, which are easy to read. No interpretation is necessary, you just make a note of the picture and decode it. | 05-13-2010 |
20100159427 | Gates of Power.TM. Method - A curriculum and method for self-transformation and self-actualization comprising a body of information, processes and exercises that cover several of life's most important aspects, called gates, comprising gates of the body, of emotions, of dialog, of creative expression, of life path, of silence, and of knowledge and each gate provides a series of processes and exercises that deepen the awareness of that aspect and its potential to promote well-being, the method serves to identify, understand, and release feelings, attitudes, behaviors, habits, and beliefs that diminish inner power and wholeness, and having a purpose to identify, understand, and reclaim feelings, attitudes, behaviors, habits and beliefs that enhance inner power and wholeness. | 06-24-2010 |
20100173271 | Computer operated by thought and emotions - My innovated computer doesn't need input devices like keyboards, mouse, light pen, etc; rather, it needs head cap in the form of comfortable headset to sense and to detect the instantaneous electrical signals generated in the brain according to the thought and emotions of the computer user as an input. The usage field of computer is as PC, Computer uses in: Investigation Purposes, Psychology, Neuro-psychiatry, Neurology. After the production of the computer Computing, information, communication and investigation fields will be revolutionized. | 07-08-2010 |
20100178639 | TRAINING ASSISTING APPARATUS, TRAINING ASSISTING METHOD, AND TRAINING ASSISTING PROGRAM - An examinee is subjected to an image or a sound suitable for the examinee's overcoming his worries in accordance with change in a physical state of the examinee. The training assisting apparatus according to the present invention is at training assisting apparatus for assisting an examinee in overcoming the examinee's worries by displaying a training image, including: a display section that displays the training image; a display ratio storage section that stores a change quantity of a display ratio of the training image displayed on the display section, in association with a physical state of the examinee; a physical state acquiring section that acquires the physical state of the examinee looking at the training image displayed on the display section; a display ratio extraction section that extracts the change quantity of the display ratio of the training image stored in the display ratio storage section in association with the physical state of the examinee acquired by the physical state acquiring section; and a display control section that changes the display ratio of the training image displayed on the display section, in accordance with the display ratio of the training image extracted by the display ratio extraction section. | 07-15-2010 |
20100178640 | COMPUTERIZED TEST APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN RESPONSES TO STIMULI - A computerized method and apparatus for measuring effects of distraction on a human subject, including presenting at least one stimulus, at least one visual distraction and at least one audio distraction to a subject; measuring at least one aspect of at least one of the subject's commissions and omissions responsive to the stimulus; computing an indication of quality of at least one of the subject's commissions and omissions when visual distraction is present; and computing an indication of quality of at least one of the subject's commissions and omissions when audio distraction is present. | 07-15-2010 |
20100203486 | Social and Physical Activity Meter, an apparatus and method - The invention presents an apparatus, which measures, accumulates and stores the amount of the physical and social activity of the user. The activities are converted into points, which the user can exchange for beneficial goods. The physical activity is measured by a sensor, whose output signal is related to the user movement. The social activity is measured by means of estimating the number of similar apparatuses in the vicinity of the user. The present invention's goal is encouraging social and physical activity. | 08-12-2010 |
20100216102 | Bio-essence energy packet/card - A method whereby information, positive statements or affirmations are repeated 1000's of times and printed repeatedly on sheets of standard printing material using very small font. Each individual sheet is layered into a stack to form a packet of condensed and combined statements of positive influencing messages to improve the well being of the holder. The packets can be made using many different methods and designs disclosed in the following. | 08-26-2010 |
20100221687 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS - A method for assessing an emotional response from a test subject includes presenting, for a first predetermined period of time, a plurality of stimuli to the test subject through a first computer implemented interface. The method further includes, in response to presenting at least one stimulus, receiving, within a second predetermined period of time, at least one test subject response from the test subject through a second computer implemented interface. The method further includes determining a quantitative emotional profile of the test subject based on the at least one test subject response. | 09-02-2010 |
20100221688 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for an Automated Neuropsychological Test - A system, method, and article of manufacture for providing automated neuropsychological testing. The invention includes a plurality of computer program modules wherein each program module includes computer readable instructions for administering a neuropsychological assessment test and a computer program control module that allows a user to control at least one parameter relating to the neuropsychological assessment test. The present invention also allows the user to build a custom-made test battery. The system of the invention includes a microprocessor capable of executing the computer program modules and the computer program control modules, an input device in communication with the microprocessor and an output device operable to provide information relating to each neuropsychological assessment test. | 09-02-2010 |
20100227302 | METRICS ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR HEALTH, FITNESS AND LIFESTYLE BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT - A software and hardware system is described that enables effective lifestyle management by providing a dynamic assessment of a user's physical and behavioral metrics via a high feedback ratio interface. | 09-09-2010 |
20100240016 | COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT TOOL AND METHOD - The present invention is a cognitive test assessment tool and system incorporating either a single test or a test battery and a method of utilizing said tool and system. The tool may be compiled and ordered to addresses the particular assessment needs of patients groups determined in accordance with a diagnosis. The tool may incorporate an electronic device operable to provide elements of the test battery and to store information and/or transfer information to a storage means. Data regarding the process of the test battery, as well as that pertaining to the results of the test battery, can be captured in real time and stored locally and/or remotely. Said data may be assessed and may be utilized for reporting purposes. The data may be transferred to, or accessed by, other institutions in a format that is readable at the remote institutions and is consistent with circle of care regulations. | 09-23-2010 |
20100240017 | Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts - Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection. | 09-23-2010 |
20100248197 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACTING ON A PERSON'S MOTOR AUTOMATISM - The invention relates to a sound device for acting on the motor automatisms of a person including:
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20100248198 | Computer-based first-person behavioral change methodology - A first-person, field-of-endeavor-associated method for transforming, toward positive deviance, a behavioral change-candidate's performance characteristics in that endeavor field, including (a) exposing a relevant prospective change-candidate to a positive-deviance script which is associated with the mentioned field of endeavor, and (b) in a computer-system-delivered, plural-stage series of verbally-based exercises, and using a pattern describable as “read, feedback, and adapt”, directing the change-candidate, via encouraged, self-first-person verbal expression, and related interaction with the computer system, transformably to embody and personify the positive-deviance script. | 09-30-2010 |
20100255448 | PERSONALITY TESTING APPARATUS - A personality testing apparatus which tests the personality of a subject has a display means ( | 10-07-2010 |
20100255449 | INTERACTIVE VIDEO TRAINING OF PERCEPTUAL DECISION-MAKING - An interactive video training method is provided for targeting and enhancing cognitive recognition in a rapid response performance skill is provided. The method comprises identifying a cognitive component of performance skill requiring a rapid response in a limited time, developing video occlusion techniques for measuring cognitive expertise of an individual in recognizing and selecting an accurate response, and applying the video occlusion techniques for the purpose of mediated training for enhancing an individual's skills in recognizing and selecting an accurate response in the performance skill. The method may further comprise the step of measuring the improvement in the individual's performance skill after application of the video occlusion techniques. | 10-07-2010 |
20100255450 | SYSTEM OF ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING - A system of learning includes a flexible associative learning method where images are associated with words, physical objects, color, size, sounds of syllables, acronyms, text or any combination thereof. The images are related to functional aspects of a concept. The method of the system may adjust the color, font size, shape or any other feature of a familiar object, words associated with concepts or both to reinforce associations, such as in imagery-based narratives. Furthermore, interactive systems and physical objects may be used to reinforce associations between imagery and the functional aspect of a concept. | 10-07-2010 |
20100266997 | AURAL, NEURAL MUSCLE MEMORY RESPONSE TOOL AND METHOD - An aural, neural muscle memory response tool includes an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with parallel tines formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal. The U-shaped bar is attached to a deflector at a curved vertex. The tines are configured to resonate at a determined frequency up to about 20 Hz. A housing houses and stably supports the deflector and also houses a portion of the tines without contacting the tines. Optionally, the tool may include a manually actuatable trigger configured to cause the tines to vibrate when actuated. Use of the tool for training entails performing a task; determining to either associate a sound generated by the tool with the performed task, and if the sound generated by the tool will be associated with the performed task, generating the sound. These steps may be repeated until the training session is complete. Use of the tool for recollection entails determining whether to produce a sound generated by the tool and associated with a task as a muscle memory cue, and if the sound will be produced, producing the sound before the task is performed; and then performing the task. | 10-21-2010 |
20100279260 | Method of Constructing Questions For Lie Detection Examinations - A method for improving the construction of a polygraph examiner's question list during a computerized polygraph exam includes the following steps: a) before the polygraph exam, building a first library of different sequences of question types, and building a second library of different question types; b) organizing the first and second libraries; c) combining the different question types into sets of categories; d) selecting a sequence of question types from the first library, and selecting a first category of question types; e) reviewing a range of questions within the first category; f) selecting and adding some of the questions within the first category to the selected sequence of question types; g) during the polygraph exam, selecting a second category; h) repeating steps (e) and (f) for the second category; and i) repeating steps (g) and (h) until the polygraph examiner's question list is complete. | 11-04-2010 |
20100297591 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION PROGRAM - A method for modifying behavior through a behavioral modification program run on a microprocessor-based computer which provides a user access to the program and generates a modification course associated with the user. During the program, the user participates in an educational module and possibly a communication component, and is associated with at least one modification task. The user provides task feedback, and is evaluated by the program based upon user feedback, for which a reward is provided to the user. The system provides a behavioral modification program, and consists of a microprocessor configured to execute program instructions residing in memory. The program prompts the user to begin, generates a modification course, executes an educational module and possibly a communication component, and associates a modification task with the user, for which task feedback is received. The user is then evaluated on their feedback and issued a reward. | 11-25-2010 |
20100297592 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO INDOCTRINATE AND REWARD A PEER OF A BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION PROGRAM - A method of indoctrinating an experienced user of a behavioral modification program run on a microprocessor-based computer as a peer for at least one other user of the behavioral modification program, which selects an experienced user to become the peer, associates the peer with the at least one user within the behavioral modification program, and provides the peer with at least one workflow task. The peer is evaluated and rewarded based upon their performance. The system indoctrinates and rewards a peer for their participation in a behavioral modification program, and consists of a microprocessor configured to execute program instructions residing in memory. The program selects a user to become a peer, associates the peer with a user, provides a workflow task, and evaluates and rewards the peer based on their performance. | 11-25-2010 |
20100316982 | TIME-OUT DEVICE - A child time-out device ( | 12-16-2010 |
20100323335 | PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a psychotherapeutic device which induces saccadic eye movement of a user in a certain way, thus increasing the efficacy of psychiatric treatment for the user. The psychotherapeutic device in accordance with the present invention includes a main body including a frame having an opened portion corresponding to a user's eyes, a support means for placing the frame on the user's face, and a front panel connected to a front surface of the frame and providing light spots moved left and right with respect to the user's eyes; and a control box for controlling the operation of the front panel, wherein the main body and the control box are electrically connected to each other by a wire. | 12-23-2010 |
20100330543 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A CHILD REVIEW PROCESS WITHIN A NETWORKED COMMUNITY - A system and method for moderating child interaction in a networked community by a supervisor that includes monitoring interactions of a child within a first environment; selecting a child interaction that satisfies a notification parameter of the supervisor; and sending a notification to the supervisor within a second environment with information associated with the selected interaction. | 12-30-2010 |
20110020778 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS - A method for assessing a pre-cognitive emotional response from a test subject, using responses obtained during the first moments of brain activity after presentation of a stimulus, includes exposing the test subject to a visual stimulus for between approximately 500 milliseconds and approximately 1 second, and receiving an input from the subject while the subject is exposed to the visual stimulus or within approximately 300 milliseconds after the subject is first exposed to the stimulus. The method further includes storing, in response to receiving the input, a user response that identifies one of a plurality of emotional reactions that is associated with the visual stimulus. Each of the exposing, receiving, and storing acts is repeated for a plurality of visual stimuli. The method further includes determining, based on each of the stored user responses, one or more dominant emotional characteristics of the subject. | 01-27-2011 |
20110027764 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A SPECIFIC COGNITIVE-EMOTIONAL STATE IN A SUBJECT - A system and method is disclosed which detects a specific cognitive-emotional mental state (e.g., passion) in a subject. The system and method utilizes different Internal Personalized Explorer (IPE) stimuli subliminally exposed to the subject on a visual display. Following exposure, the subject performs a target-specific cognitive task and a related behavior (e.g., deciding whether a briefly displayed string of letters is a word or not, and pressing a button to indicate the decision). The decision reaction lime for the behavior is recorded in a computer database. The reaction times are interpreted quantitatively to detect the relative intensity of the specific cognitive-emotional mental state in the subject. A reaction time for a specific individual IPE that is shorter than the mean reaction time for an IPE that does not evoke the emotional state indicates that the specific individual IPE did evoke the emotional state in the subject. | 02-03-2011 |
20110027765 | METHODS FOR TREATING SOCIAL DISORDERS - Systems and methods for treating patients with an anxiety disorder are disclosed. The systems comprise a screen for displaying sets of stimuli, a computer to control the display of stimuli onto the screen during at least one treatment session and the ability for the patient to interact with the screen in response to the displayed stimuli. The interaction of the patient with the system during the treatment session is capable of treating patient anxiety associated with an anxiety disorder, such as social anxiety. Also provided are computer programs capable of being used in the systems and methods of the present invention for treating anxiety. | 02-03-2011 |
20110033830 | CTS PEP PREVENTION EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) and Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTD's, also known by other names such as repetitive stress injuries [RSI's] and other such names, have emerged as a significant occupational health problem. The present invention is to provide systems, devices, products, methods and software programs, which will remind individuals, such as keyboard operators, on a regularly scheduled basis, and to recommend certain preventive exercises and the like. Once the system and the software is designed and implemented, a study will then be instituted to measure its effectiveness in workplaces, especially those that have experienced a high incidence of problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome. The recommendations for specific actions, such as posture and exercises, will be based on work already established in the medical and occupational literature and journals, as well as the continuous research conducted by medical experts in the field. The development of a relatively inexpensive method of controlling, reducing and preventing the incidence of these disorders is important to prevent injuries and to save money on insurance premiums, payments to injured workers, loss of productivity, loss of productive workers from the workplace as well as the need to retrain injured workers. Furthermore, the invention relates to an electronic device or chip that would act as the heart of the above system, and could be used as an embedded chip in various products. | 02-10-2011 |
20110033831 | METHOD AND APPLIANCE FOR DISTRACTION FROM AN UNWANTED IMPULSE - Apparatus for distracting a user from an unwanted impulse, such as an impulse to eat, having an elastic bracelet to be stretched and then released at once upon feeling the unwanted impulse by the user, thereby snapping the user, resulting in causing pain to the user, thereby distracting the user from the impulse. The stretching may be carried out each time to the same level. The level may be indicated by an indicator capable of registering only a certain stretching level of the bracelet. The stretching may be to any desired level. The stretching level may be determined using a gauge. | 02-10-2011 |
20110053128 | Automated patient monitoring and counseling system - An automated, computerized system for vicariously and remotely monitoring the conditions of a patient, providing professional counseling, and coaching the patient into sound behavior and health-enhancing activities. A computerized central installation receives, over a public communication network, patient's vital sign measurements such as blood pressure, glucose level, and pulse rate. The measurements are gathered at the patient's residence by a battery of instrumental monitoring devices, polled by the central installation at scheduled intervals, automatically checked by a central processing unit against preset limits and analyzed to generate diagnostics and assessments of patient's condition and are stored in libraries. The diagnostics and assessments are used to selectively retrieve from a data bank of prerecorded messages, feedback advice, past performance charts and motivating audiovisual programs stored in libraries. If warranted, health professionals are alerted so that they can intervene and contact the patient directly. The communications between the central installation and the patient are scripted by a computer program routine to mimic a natural telephone conversation. | 03-03-2011 |
20110065074 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF VERBAL MEMORY - A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of verbal memory of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: ( | 03-17-2011 |
20110065075 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF FACIAL EMOTION SENSITIVITY - A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of facial emotion sensitivity of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene to the subject on a display, the scene comprising a plurality of faces and a background on a display, the plurality of faces comprising a plurality of facial expressions; (2) adjusting at least one facial expression on the scene; (3) receiving feedback from said subject via at least one input device; (4) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (5) modulating the adjusted facial expression relative to the accuracy of the received feedback; (6) (7) transforming the modulated facial expression; (8) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (9) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. An apparatus for quantitative assessment of facial emotion sensitivity of a subject comprising a display device, an input device, a control device, and a tangible computer readable medium. In its simplest sense, a quantitative assessment profile of facial emotion sensitivity by psychophysical responses is generated on a tangible computer readable medium. | 03-17-2011 |
20110065076 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL CUES SENSITIVITY - A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of social cues sensitivity of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: ( | 03-17-2011 |
20110065077 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SPATIAL SEQUENCE MEMORY - A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of spatial sequence memory in a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: ( | 03-17-2011 |
20110065078 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS NULLING TESTING - A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of social interactions nulling testing of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: ( | 03-17-2011 |
20110070568 | COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE - A device and system to facilitate communication between a first communicator and a second communicator to teach desired behaviors, values, principles, and skills. The device includes a plush or stuffed toy form having one or more pockets which are sized and configured to receive one or more communication symbols. The communication symbols may represent thoughts, feelings, actions, goals, behavior, values, or other concepts to be discussed by the first communicator and second communicator. First communicator/second communicator discussion occurs as the communication symbols are placed into and removed from the pockets. | 03-24-2011 |
20110076656 | Architecture for Delivering Relational Skills Training Content - Apparatus and associated methods relate to a system for delivering interactive relationship skills training with multiple feedback source types for the benefit of remote players who access the system via electronic communication networks. In an illustrative example, some systems may deliver relationship skills training content having restricted access to two or more types of feedback sources. Feedback sources that may be accessed at first, second, third and fourth tiers may respectively include, for example, predetermined expert responses, a virtual partner, a remote human partner, and a moderated group of remote players. Players may gain access to feedback sources at progressively higher tiers of psychological complexity by accumulating a sufficient relational skills score at each tier. | 03-31-2011 |
20110081634 | Behaviour Pattern Analysis System, Mobile Terminal, Behaviour Pattern Analysis Method, and Program - Provided is a mobile terminal including a movement sensor that detects a movement of a user and outputs movement information, acquires information on a building existing at a current location or information on buildings existing in a vicinity of the current location, analyses the movement information output from the movement sensor, and detects a first behaviour pattern corresponding to the movement information from multiple first behaviour patterns obtained by classifying behaviours performed by the user over a relatively short period of time, and analyses the information on a building or buildings and the first behaviour pattern, and detects a second behaviour pattern corresponding to the information on a building or buildings and the first behaviour pattern from multiple second behaviour patterns obtained by classifying behaviours performed by the user over a relatively long period of time. | 04-07-2011 |
20110091847 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE CODE FOR THE ADAPTATION OF TRAINING VIA PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSIS BASED ON (NEURO)PHYSIOLOGICAL METRICS - A method for adapting a training system based on information obtained from a user using a training system during a training scenario, the method including measuring a neurophysiological state, a physiological state, and/or a behavioral state of a user while a training scenario is in progress, diagnosing at least one performance deficiency of the user and/or a learned training objective while the training scenario is in progress, and adapting the training scenario during the training scenario and/or for a subsequent operation of the training scenario in response to information learned during diagnosing the at least one performance deficiency and/or a learned training objective to meet an objective of the training scenario. A system and computer software code for adapting the training system based on information obtained from the user using the training system during a training scenario is also disclosed. | 04-21-2011 |
20110104648 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEALTH BEHAVIOR REINFORCEMENT - The invention relates to simple yet effective methods, referred to herein as Dynamic Intermittent Reward (DIR), and systems, to increase the frequency of desired behavior(s) in a user, decrease the frequency of an undesired behavior(s), and optimize cost-effectiveness of a reward system. A principal benefit of the new methods is the ability to provide tailored intermittent rewards for one or more users over time for both desired and undesired behaviors. | 05-05-2011 |
20110136085 | COMPUTER BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING AN INTERVIEWEE IN REMEMBERING AND RECOUNTING INFORMATION ABOUT A PRIOR EVENT USING A COGNITIVE INTERVIEW AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - A computer based system and method for assisting an interviewee in remembering and recounting information about a prior event that occurred using a cognitive interview and natural language processing. | 06-09-2011 |
20110136086 | Systems and Methods for Generating Personality Profiles for Animals - A method of generating a personality profile of at least two animals to determine compatibility potential between the animals, comprises: obtaining a set of answers to a plurality of queries relating to a first of the animals; obtaining a set of answers to a plurality of queries relating to a second of the animals; tabulating each of the sets of answers to obtain an overall score for each of the animals; comparing the overall scores of each of the animals one to another; and determining a compatibility potential between the animals based upon the comparison of the overall scores. | 06-09-2011 |
20110151418 | PORTABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL MONITORING DEVICE - The invention relates to a portable psychological monitoring device, comprising an input, an output, a repository and a processor. The repository comprises a plurality of questionnaires, each comprising one or more questions relating to a mental state of a user. The processor is arranged for selecting a first questionnaire of the plurality of questionnaires, and presenting at least one of the questions of the first questionnaire to the user via the output at a first moment that is random to the user. The processor is arranged for receiving an answer to the question from the user via the input, and storing the answer into the repository. The invention further relates to a system for psychological monitoring, a method of assessment of a mental state of a user and a method of treatment or prevention of mood disorders and related disorder phenotypes. | 06-23-2011 |
20110159468 | Process And Apparatus For Anger And Behavior Management - A method is performed to manage a secondary emotion such as anger, allowing the user to choose their behavior in response to the primary emotion thereby managing their behavior. The user turns on a figurine which plays back a message which invites the user to complete the process. The user names and records on a note the primary emotion being experienced. Then, the user claims this primary emotion as being responsible for the anger and records this on the note. Then, the user deposits this note into a figurine that disposes the note. This last step, by disposing the note, symbolically releases the anger, which helps the user manage anger and reminds the user of their power to choose their response to feelings of anger. The apparatus comprises a figurine containing, in one embodiment, a voice module to play back a message and a paper shredder to dispose the note. | 06-30-2011 |
20110165543 | DIAPER WITH GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION/TEXT/IMAGE DIRECTED TO PARENTS/CAREGIVERS BASED ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE OF THE INFANT, TODDLER OR CHILD - At the beginning of life, parent-infant interactions are the building blocks of the baby's brain and socio-emotional and cognitive development. Eye contact, touch, facial expressions, and verbal communications are essential ingredients in these interactions. One of the most prominent activities a parent/caregiver is involved in during the first year of life is diaper changing. For a newborn, the frequency of diaper changing can reach 10-12 times a day. Diaper changing brings the opportunity for this parent-child interaction to take place. The present invention uses diapers as a medium and/or tool to deliver educations and developmental images. Information and/or written and/or visual messages and tips to the parents/caregivers of infants, toddlers and children. | 07-07-2011 |
20110165544 | ACTIVITY DATA PRESENTING APPARATUS, ACTIVITY DATA PRESENTING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An activity data presenting apparatus includes an activity information obtaining unit that obtains activity data representing a human activity, a personality data obtaining unit that obtains personality data representing the personality of a person to whom information is presented, a presenting data selecting unit that selects, on the basis of the person to whom the information is presented and of the personality data of that person, data to be presented among the activity data, a display method selecting unit that selects a display method of displaying the data to be presented corresponding to each piece of the personality data, an activity data processing unit that processes the activity data in accordance with the display method selected by the display method selecting unit, an activity data display unit that displays the activity data processed by the activity data processing unit, and a display unit. | 07-07-2011 |
20110183305 | Behaviour Modification - A behavioural modification system and method facilitates the achieving by a user (Q) of one or more objectives. The system includes sensors ( | 07-28-2011 |
20110207098 | SYSTEM FOR TREATING MENTAL ILLNESS AND A METHOD OF USING A SYSTEM FOR TREATING MENTAL - A system for providing treatment to a patient with a mental illness, the treatment system ( | 08-25-2011 |
20110207099 | MEASURING COGNITIVE LOAD - This invention concerns measuring cognitive load. A word based input is produced by a person while performing a task ( | 08-25-2011 |
20110207100 | CONTROLLING AN INFLUENCE ON A USER IN A RENDERING ENVIRONMENT - A method of controlling an influence on a user ( | 08-25-2011 |
20110212422 | Cognitive Capacity Assessment System - Systems and methods for cognitive assessment are provided that test a subject's cognitive capacity using a battery of tests that are selected with respect to a specific job that the subject is expected to perform. The test results are analyzed based upon the relative criticality of each cognitive ability that is required by the job to provide an overall assessment of the subject's cognitive capacity to perform the job. Predictions about the subject's future capacity to perform the job can also be made by analysis of expected workload and recovery schedules. | 09-01-2011 |
20110217681 | SENSOR NETWORK FOR INCENTIVIZING BEHAVIORAL ACTIONS - Various embodiments are described herein related to positively reinforcing user behavior based on a user behavioral action performed by a user and detected by one or more sensors. For example, one disclosed embodiment relates to a behavior reward system including a wireless sensor configured to transmit behavior data generated in response to an interrupt generated by an accelerometer included in the wireless sensor and a server computing device including a data-holding subsystem configured to hold instructions executable by a logic subsystem, the instructions being configured to determine whether the behavior data indicates that the user behavioral action was performed and if the behavior data indicates that the user behavioral action was performed, supply a reward offer to the user. | 09-08-2011 |
20110223570 | Goal achievement game & method - A theme-based goal achievement game for modifying a student's themed behavior in cooperation with teacher input at both home, for example, a parent, and at school, for example, a traditional teacher or behaviorist, includes a theme-based gameboard for display in the student's home configured on a front side with a contiguous theme-based path, said path comprising a plurality of positions representative of completion of theme-defined tasks, the positions including a start position, a finish position and interim reward positions therebetween. A place marker for marking the student's instant position reflects the student's cumulative progress traversing the theme-based path and a set of instructions for educating both the home and the school teacher on the themed behavior, including instructions for supporting the student to modify his/her themed behavior in cooperation with the theme-based gameboard. The student is presented with pre-defined theme-based goals by the home or school teacher, progress towards completion of which corresponds to path positions on the gameboard including interim achievement reward positions and reflects behavioral modification. | 09-15-2011 |
20110223571 | EMOTIONAL WEB - Methods and systems are provided for association of various online elements with emotional states. A set of emotional states may be generated or obtained, and particular online elements may be assigned to particular emotional states of the set, such as with emotional states that are reflected or represented by or in the online elements. Online elements can be of various types, such as, for example, Web sites, blogs, articles, online events, online activities, online messaging, etc. User association or interaction with online emotional state-associated online elements can be used in classifying users into particular emotional states. | 09-15-2011 |
20110229865 | System and method for reducing heavy drinking - The present invention relates to a system and method for motivating heavy drinking college students to reduce their drinking and alcohol-related problems by utilizing a computer-based software program to screen for heavy drinking and for those who screen positive, provide a comprehensive assessment of drinking and alcohol-related problems, provide personalized feedback to the user with relevant norms, assist users in resolving their ambivalence about changing, and help them develop a plan of action to achieve the goals of drinking less and having fewer alcohol-related problems. The method includes a way for University administrators to implement the system on a campus-wide basis, customize the system to their specific campus and its needs, manage the dataset, and generate outcome reports that measure pertinent clinical outcomes of the program. | 09-22-2011 |
20110229866 | Behavior Modification Device and Method - A behavior modification device and method for encouraging positive behavior and discouraging negative behavior by a child. The device comprises a positive section having a positive receptacle, a neutral section having two receptacles and a negative section having a negative receptacle. Each of the positive and negative sections are made up of members that disconnect to open the receptacles and which separate from the neutral section. Tokens and reward items are placed in the neutral section and a caregiver monitors the child. If good behavior is observed, a token is moved to the positive receptacle. If further good behavior is observed, a second token is moved to the positive receptacle and the child gets a reward item. If bad behavior is observed, a token is moved to the negative receptacle. If further bad behavior is observed, a second token is moved to the negative receptacle and the child is disciplined. | 09-22-2011 |
20110236864 | Memory test for alzheimer's disease - a method for assessing memory in a subject include the steps of presenting to the subject a list of items to be retrieved from memory by the subject, having the subject recognize the presented items from memory, determining the subject's response speed to each of the recognized repeated items and analyzing a plurality of the response speeds for the recognized repeated items. The items which presented to the subject are intermixed with repetitions of the items being tested for recognition. The subject is tested to determine if he recognizes each repeated item as being a repeated item. The response speed for each of the recognized repeated item is the time required between when the subject is shown a repeated item and when the subject responds that he recognizes the repeated item. | 09-29-2011 |
20110250575 | System And Method For Providing A Visual Representation Of A User Personality Within A Virtual Environment - A representation of a user's personality may be provided within one or more virtual environments. The personality of the user may be determined based on interactions within the one or more virtual environments. As such, the personality of the user may be determined organically without relying on declared information. A visible representation of the personality of the user may be provided to the user and/or other users within the one or more virtual environments. | 10-13-2011 |
20110256516 | Youth depot / Youth Hub - The Youth Depot is a 24-hour-one-stop-shop of services and activities for teens and young adults. The Youth Depot is a collaboration/partnership of two or more youth-service-organizations coming together at one location. The Youth Depot ensures that each and every individual teen that enters will be connected with a Life Advisor-non-judgmental-caring-resourceful-qualified professional. | 10-20-2011 |
20110256517 | COMPUTER AIDED REAL-TIME BEHAVIOR COACHING - Computer implemented methods and systems for coaching a person by coaching, guiding, or training a person is provided. Accordingly, a coaching protocol is accessed for coaching a person in real-time to engage in a predetermined behavior; a message is sent in real-time to the person to execute the one of the plurality of behavior-steps; wherein the coaching protocol includes a plurality of behavior-steps, wherein the execution of one of the plurality of behavior-steps by the person results in the person engaging in the predetermined behavior. In addition, data can be gathered and based on gathered data, a determination can be made whether to modify the coaching protocol, and accordingly, the coaching protocol may be modified. | 10-20-2011 |
20110275040 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT APPARATUS - Aspects describe a multifunctional apparatus that provides both educational and entertainment value. The multifunctional apparatus can be a meal plate that comprises a stationary base unit that contains a motor that rotates a platform on which the meal plate is attached. Stationary base unit can also cause the meal plate to vibrate. Stationary base unit comprises means for producing audio output communication and/or visual signals. Controls can be operated through interaction with stationary base unit and/or a remote control device. The meal plate can be interchangeable, wherein a multitude of meal plates can be utilized with a single stationary base unit. The multifunctional apparatus can utilize technology that can synchronize an object, such as a meal plate, with the base. | 11-10-2011 |
20110281247 | Method and System for Facilitating the Improvement of the State of Wellbeing of an Individual - A method for facilitating the evaluation of the treatment of the state of wellbeing of an individual is provided. A first computer program for enabling a user to interact therewith via a user interface is executed. The first computer program enables a second computer program to communicate therewith. The second computer program is executed for communicating with the first computer program for collecting interaction data in dependence upon the interaction of the user with the first computer program. User state data are then determined in dependence upon the interaction data. The user state data are associated with a state of wellbeing of the user. Evaluation data are then determined in dependence upon the user state data for facilitating treatment of at least an attribute of the state of wellbeing of the user. | 11-17-2011 |
20110287396 | Systems and methods for providing a behavioral modification program - A method for modifying behavior through a behavioral modification program run on a microprocessor-based computer which provides a user access to the program and generates a modification course associated with the user. During the program, the user participates in an educational module and possibly a communication component, and is associated with at least one modification task. The user provides task feedback, and is evaluated by the program based upon user feedback, for which a reward is provided to the user. The system provides a behavioral modification program, and consists of a microprocessor configured to execute program instructions residing in memory. The program prompts the user to begin, generates a modification course, executes an educational module and possibly a communication component, and associates a modification task with the user, for which task feedback is received. The user is then evaluated on their feedback and issued a reward. | 11-24-2011 |
20110294099 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ANALYSIS AND DIAGNOSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH - A method and apparatus for automated analysis of emotional content of speech for discovery and assistance in early diagnosis of stress-related psychological health (PH) related issues is presented. Further, methods and apparatus for evaluation of treatments for PH disorders are also presented. Telephony calls are routed via a network such as a public service telephone network (PSTN) and delivered to an interactive voice response system (IVR) where prerecorded or synthesized prompts guide the caller to speech responses. The caller is led through a self-report questionnaire used by psychological professionals to identify stress-related disorders. These speech responses are analyzed for emotional content in real time or collected via recording and analyzed in batch. This data may be included in multi-dimensional databases for analysis and comparison to other collected patient data. Analysis may be performed to either increase the effectiveness of diagnosis (post confirmation) or evaluate the effectiveness of treatment regimes. | 12-01-2011 |
20110300522 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASSESSING, TRAINING AND IMPROVING PERCEPTUAL-COGNITIVE ABILITIES OF INDIVIDUALS - A device and method for evaluating or improving perceptual-cognitive abilities of a subject, comprising displaying virtual objects moving in a given three-dimensional environment during successive tests. The subject is in visual contact with the virtual objects moving in the three-dimensional environment, and the speed of movement of the virtual objects in the three-dimensional environment during the successive tests is changed. | 12-08-2011 |
20110300523 | Team Electronic Gameplay Combining Different Means of Control - Disclosed are methods and apparatuses provided for modifying the effect of an operator controlled input device on an interactive device to encourage the self-regulation of at least one physiological activity by a person different than the operator. The interactive device comprises a display area which depicts images and apparatus for receiving at least one input from the operator controlled input device to thus peiiiiit the operator to control and interact with at least some of the depicted images. One effect modification comprises measurement of the physiological activity of a person different from the operator, while modifying the ability of the operator to control and interact with at least some of the depicted images by modifying the input from the operator controlled input device in response to changes in the measured physiological signal. | 12-08-2011 |
20120021391 | NEUROCOGNITIVE AND PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT AND REHABILITATION SYSTEM - A file system storing an executive program and a plurality of modules such that when the executive program is executed by a processor the executive program controls the plurality of modules. The modules include a plurality of test modules for executing a specific individual test to test a cognitive attribute of a user; a plurality of test batteries having one or more specified test modules, at least one registration module for registering each of the plurality of users; a plurality of interpretive modules for interpreting results of the test batteries; and at least one report module for immediately generating a cognitive status report for reporting the test battery results as determined by the plurality of interpretive modules. | 01-26-2012 |
20120028230 | TEACHING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention relates to a system and method for enhancing the identification of soft-skill, self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence learning needs, the development of and monitoring of improvement in self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attributes. A method comprises establishing a baseline measurement of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attributes in the individual by presenting the individual a series of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence specific questions or statements requiring multiple choice or graded responses and recording the responses; identifying from the baseline measurement specific self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attributes in need of improvement; optionally communicating the specific self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attribute improvement needs identified to the individual or a teacher or coach thereto; providing to and/or facilitating the individual one or a plurality of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence raising exercises or learning modules designed to address the self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attribute improvement needs of the individual; establishing a revised measurement of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence attributes in the individual by presenting the individual a series of self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence specific questions or statements requiring multiple choice or graded responses and recording the responses; and comparing the revised measurement with the baseline measurement and reporting any change. | 02-02-2012 |
20120034584 | Peered Proctoring - Systems and methods described herein utilize a distributed server network to allow for the real-time distribution of copies of a data stream uploaded from a computing device. The uploaded data stream corresponds to an environment surrounding a user (exam taker) of the computing device during execution of a testing routine for an examination. Providing copies of the data stream in real-time allows proctors as well as other test assessment authorities to ‘peek in’ on the exam taker's environment during the exam. As a result, the environment surrounding the exam taker can be monitored in real-time to determine whether any visual or audio activity in the environment constitutes activity not in accordance with the exam protocol. Following an affirmative determination that the exam taker violated an exam taking protocol, a proctor or other test assessment authority can then make a final or early decision regarding disciplinary action. | 02-09-2012 |
20120045740 | NON-INVASIVE DETERMINATION OF NEUROTRANSMITTER INDICATION AND APPLICATIONS USING SAME - An indication of a level of a neurotransmitter in an individual or for a group may be non-invasively determined. The neurotransmitter may be oxytocin. The determined indicator may be used to determine actions to increase effectiveness of an organization. | 02-23-2012 |
20120064493 | METHOD FOR COGNITIVE COMPUTING - The model treats individual expression in terms of negative or positive reflection of the state of mind on the world, and captures the full range of moods and cognitive states by computationally modeling the notions of ‘mind axiology’ and ‘emotional state’. | 03-15-2012 |
20120077159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING OF AN ANIMAL - An apparatus and method for cognitive assessment and training of an animal subject. A subject is placed in a testing environment, such as a subject chamber of a cognitive assessment and training apparatus. At least one cognitive assessment and training session comprising a plurality of trials is performed. In a trial, a trial assembly is prepared at a first level. The trial assembly includes at least one stimuli and a reward, where a target stimuli of the at least one stimuli is associated with the reward. The subject is allowed access to the stimuli. When a correct response is determined from the subject, the subject is allowed to access a reward associated with the correct response. The subject is advanced to trials at a next level when a learning criterion is reached. At least one cognitive assessment score is generated based on the plurality of trials and the at least one cognitive assessment and training session. | 03-29-2012 |
20120077160 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED INTERACTIVE BEHAVIORAL TRAINING TECHNIQUE FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF ATTENTION OR REMEDIATION OF DISORDERS OF ATTENTION - The current invention provides methods of enhancing a subject's attentional state. The methods comprise a series of interactive behavioral assessments and interactive behavioral training sessions, which trains the individual to be in a more optimal attentional state throughout their day-to-day life, ultimately enhancing their cognitive performance, visuomotor performance, and emotion regulation. | 03-29-2012 |
20120077161 | Method and system for providing rule based cognitive stimulation to a user - A method and system for providing evolving, highly variable, long-term ongoing cognitive stimulation over a broad spectrum of cognitive domains. The user is presented with a series of entertaining audio/visual activities customized for the user, based on the user's life experience and cognitive level, each activity providing stimulation in one or more cognitive domains. The activities themselves and their level of challenge may change, in real time, over both the short- and the long term, varying in relation to current and historical user response patterns, creating an experience that remains engaging, with on-going use, over a period of months or years. | 03-29-2012 |
20120077162 | CONDITIONING AN ORGANISM - A system for conditioning an organism by associating a conditioned response with a conditioned stimulus, the system comprising the following. Identifying means for identifying a signal pattern associated with a conditioned response ( | 03-29-2012 |
20120082968 | Journal System - A journal system for promoting a person's personal growth and a method for guiding a journal user to use a journal are provided. The journal system includes a plurality of cards, each card having a writable portion configured to receive an entry from a user and a written content portion. The written content portion includes a prompt to the user and an intention relating to the prompt to facilitate the entry from the user. | 04-05-2012 |
20120088212 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR ADDICTION CONTROL ESPECIALLY CALORIE, DIET AND WEIGHT CONTROL - A computerized device and system providing a subject with a behavioral plan for maintaining or improving wellness in the field of addiction, especially eating and weight control is disclosed, comprising a computer usable medium with computer readable program code embodied, a means of inputting data concerned with psychological and physical descriptions of the subject's behavior into a retrievable and updatable database. A processing means with computer programmable code for processing input data to produce output data and a display means for displaying information is provided. The computer programmable code is adapted for calculating the optimal eating behavior to be prompted to the subject based upon application of an algorithm that processes input data and outputs a time resolved behavioral plan. | 04-12-2012 |
20120115115 | Contingency Management Behavioral Change Therapy with Virtual Assets and Social Reinforcement as Incentive-Rewards - A method for behavior change therapy based on contingency management, using virtual assets from interactive digital environments as incentive-rewards. The invention teaches rewarding positive behavior changes with reinforcement (or the delivery of incentive-rewards) in the form of virtual goods, virtual services, virtual currency, virtual abilities, and social reinforcement in various contexts including videogames and virtual environments. | 05-10-2012 |
20120115116 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VISUAL COMPARISON BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGES - An easy to understand visual comparison between a person's chronological age and calculated psychological age takes the form of a time scale representing person's estimated lifespan on which the spacing between indicators provides the comparison. In a preferred embodiment the lifespan time scale is in the form of a clock on which respective clock hands represent the chronological age and calculated psychological age. | 05-10-2012 |
20120135386 | Relating psychological characteristics to on-screen drawings - A method and system for digitally relating psychological characteristics of a subject to on-screen drawings, comprising—
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20120141961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOTIVATING A USER BASED ON PERSONALIZED AUDIOVISUAL SEQUENCES - A system and a method for motivating a user to achieve a goal, based on customized video sequences. The customization is performed by integrating personal elements (images, phrases, voice . . . ) in a video-base that is suitable for the goal. The user watches the customized video according to an established calendar in dependence upon the type of goal and his personal characteristics. The visual effect produces a moment of emotional impact, which is maintained in the long term by periodical visualization of modified customized videos, according to the user's progress. | 06-07-2012 |
20120141962 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING A PATIENT WITH A MENTAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDER - Systems and methods to match a user to a mental health care provider. Answers to user and provider assessment questionnaires are used to generate a bond index score. The bond index score indicates the strength of a potential therapeutic bond formed between the user and the provider. | 06-07-2012 |
20120164613 | Determining a demographic characteristic based on computational user-health testing of a user interaction with advertiser-specified content - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out specifying at least one of a plurality of user-health test functions responsive to an interaction between a user and at least one advertiser-specified attribute; and transmitting at least one demographic characteristic of the user based on at least one output of the at least one of a plurality of user-health test functions. | 06-28-2012 |
20120178063 | Health/Wellness Appliance - A simple, low cost device to communicate important information about a change in state relative to someone's health or wellness, ie recovery from surgery or illness. This invention focuses on the delivery of such information in audio (or video) format, tailored to the language needs of the patient or caregiver, in a simple, intuitive device that the user can access any time to hear the appropriate message. | 07-12-2012 |
20120178064 | RESPONSE SCORING SYSTEM FOR VERBAL BEHAVIOR WITHINA BEHAVIORAL STREAM WITH A REMOTE CENTRAL PROCESSINGSYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED HANDHELD COMMUNICATING DEVICES - A system, method and related devices for monitoring and improving the training and social eye contact and communication skills of developmentally challenged individuals such as autistic individuals. One component of the system allows the defining of a students/patients long-term behavior or academic or social goal treatment in a hierarchical relationship of skills in treatment plans. It captures behavioral events within a ‘behavioral stream’ and stores the ‘behavioral stream’ in a centralized database that can be accessed centrally, including with the Internet. Procedures and materials used during the treatment are identified and data is stored in a central depository and can be displayed in a therapist's handheld device. Another component provides stimuli that promotes and encourages improvements in the eye contact habits of the subject. | 07-12-2012 |
20120178065 | Advanced Button Application for Individual Self-Activating and Monitored Control System in Weight Loss Program - A mobile programmable device and method providing aural, visual or mechanical stimulus in a program for facilitating weight loss or maintenance. The device may be a mobile phone programmed with a downloadable mobile application. The application program may be modified as a result of user behavior or responses to the application. Thus the application can provide a personalized aid in weight loss control. The application may also provide a link for the user to live coaching assistance, support text messaging or email. | 07-12-2012 |
20120189994 | Methods and Apparatuses To Enhance Cognitive Functioning And Its Manifestation Into Physical Form and Translation Into Useful Information - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for enhancing cognitive functioning and its manifestation into physical form and translation into useful information for improving functioning in human experience, for example, business, academic or personal endeavors. | 07-26-2012 |
20120189995 | Dream Little Dreamer (DLD) Systems and Methods - The present invention referred to as “Dream Little Dreamer” (DLD) provides an online social and educational environment focusing on positive human characteristics that influence children and on building self confidence. Dream Little Dreamer provides age appropriate learning materials geared towards preschool children to young adults (also referred to herein as “children”). Children are rewarded for completion and accuracy of educational and/or social activities with points that may be used to accomplish goals of building a dream world. Additional embodiments include online and live talent contests that include opportunities to learn online from other children and professional. | 07-26-2012 |
20120196255 | AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF TRAINING DATA - Embodiments of a method and system for developing a training program for a trainee are provided. In one embodiment, in a training system, the method may include profiling the trainee by processing at least one of physiological data, psychological data and training program data associated with the trainee; designing a training program for the trainee in accordance with the profile of the trainee; receiving training activity data communicated in association with the trainee performing at least one training activity; and, automatically modifying at least a portion of the training program in the training system in accordance with at least the communicated training activity data. | 08-02-2012 |
20120208155 | Potty Training Method - A method for potty training a child on a standard flush toilet or a children's training toilet. That includes a device that may be placed almost anywhere on the toilet. The device contains a button that generates a sound, a light, a vibration, or a combination thereof when pressed. The child is taught to press this button as a reward for successfully using the toilet. The device may contain transmitters for transmitting to computing devices the number of times the button is pressed. These transmissions allow a supervising adult to monitor the progress of a child's toilet training by the number of times the button on the device is pressed. | 08-16-2012 |
20120208156 | Exercise Encouragement Device - An exercise encourage device can be clipped onto a child's apparel or an object worn about the person such as shoes, belt, shirt, pants pocket, etc. The device contains a motion-activated mechanism that initiates the device in response to activity by the child. Exemplary activities are running, jumping, skipping, dancing, etc. When a child engages in an energetic activity, this causes the device to flash with light and play a sound track which encourages the child to continue the activity. Exemplary sound tracks include sounds associated with a race car, a fire engine, horses, puppies and kittens. Other sound tracks are contemplated. Ongoing activity continues to activate the device, but if the child stops, the device deactivates until an energetic activity is resumed. | 08-16-2012 |
20120214143 | Systems and Methods to Assess Cognitive Function - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for assessing cognitive function. In an example embodiment, an assessment computer receives demographics data relating to an individual and provides a cognitive assessment test to a portable touchscreen personal computing device, for self administration of the test by the individual. The portable touchscreen personal computing device generates cognitive assessment stimuli, receives responses to the stimuli from the individual via touchscreen activations, measures reaction times of the responses, and transmits the responses and reaction times to the assessment computer for storage in a database. The assessment computer receives cognitive assessment performance data relating to the individual, including the received responses and measured reaction times, and generates performance metrics including at least a cognitive baseline for the individual based at least on the first cognitive assessment performance data. | 08-23-2012 |
20120219934 | System and Method for Identifying, Analyzing and Altering an Entity's Motivations and Characteristics - A system and method for identifying and analyzing an entity's motivations and associated characteristics, by classifying and measuring the presence of sensory block indicators. The system includes the means for determining predetermined patterns of sensory block combinations; thus the presence of motivational information, including behavioral traits and other vital knowledge. | 08-30-2012 |
20120225412 | INTERVENTIVE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - Apparatus and methods are described for facilitating improving health of a user. In accordance with some applications, a first physiological variable, which is indicative of a voluntary action of the user, is received. A second physiological variable, which is not entirely under the direct voluntary control of the user, is received. Responsive to the first and second variables, the second physiological variable is changed in a desired manner, by using circuitry to direct the user to modify a parameter of the voluntary action, by generating an output signal. Other applications are also described. | 09-06-2012 |
20120231428 | Reward/Punishment-and-Control System - In one embodiment, one or more first computing devices receive, from one or more second computing devices associated with a first person, information concerning an activity, the information describing the activity, a reward associated with the activity, and a condition of the reward; transmit, to one or more third computing devices associated with the second person, the information; receive, from the third computing devices, a first response by the second person; and if the first response is an acceptance to the activity by the second person, then: receive, from the third computing devices, first sensor data relating to the activity; analyze the first sensor data to determine whether the condition of the reward is satisfied; and if the condition of the reward is satisfied, then transmit, to the second computing devices and the third computing devices, a second notice indicating that the condition of the reward has been satisfied. | 09-13-2012 |
20120231429 | Reward/Punishment-and-Control System - In one embodiment, one or more first computing devices access information concerning an activity, the information describing the activity, a reward associated with the activity, and a condition of the reward; collect first sensor data relating to the activity; and transmit, to one or more second computing devices, the first sensor data. | 09-13-2012 |
20120237907 | Perfect-content-validity objective tests - This invention is a non-sampling process for producing tests with perfect content validity. It The process begins with a complete listing list of every nanoskill [the tiniest fragment of human behavior, experience, and/or knowledge in a bona fide developmental teaching-learning situation] which exists in the entire body of subject matter to be tested. The second step is to partition these nanoskills into contiguous clusters. Third, for each cluster, a test item demanding involving the application of every nanoskill partitioned in the cluster is prepared. Fourth, if an appropriate test item cannot be prepared, the partitions are revised so that the application of all nanoskills in the entire body of subject matter is involved. Lastly, for all quantitative responses, fill-in-the-blank is the answer format. The test items cover the nanoskills; the nanoskills cover the entire body of subject matter. The test, thus, has thus, perfect content validity is achieved. | 09-20-2012 |
20120237908 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND MANAGING USE OF MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Certain embodiments are directed to systems and methods for monitoring and/or managing a device with respect to a rule or set of rules and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring a mobile user's equipment with respect to a rule. The method also includes applying at least one consequence to the mobile user equipment when the rule is at least one of followed or violated. The at least one consequence comprises at least one of a reward or a punishment. The at least one consequence pertains to use of the mobile user equipment. | 09-20-2012 |
20120237909 | Method for treating fears and anxieties of abused persons by using virtual, simulated retaliation - This method provides a way for a user to alleviate feelings of fear, anxiety, helplessness, powerlessness, vulnerability, or other negative feelings that the user has toward another person with whom the user previously had an abusive relationship. Images of the other person and a deadly weapon, such as a knife or axe, are displayed. The user moves the images so that the weapon appears to harm the other person. Unless the negative feelings of the user are ascertained to be reduced by a predetermined amount, the process is repeated. The procedure thus transforms the user in a manner such that at least partial catharsis or discharge of negative cathexis occurs, but without the user believing consciously that the user's simulated actions actually harmed the other person as acted out. A preferred embodiment carries out this procedure by computer means, such as a PC or handheld portable device. | 09-20-2012 |
20120244503 | Method of Attention Recovery and Behavioral Modification - A method of attention recovery and behavioral modification is disclosed comprising a wearable device that alerts a user over provided intervals to facilitate re-engagement and regained focus on a particular activity. The method involves utilizing a vibratory or similar sensory stimulation means from a wristband that is adapted to train users to maintain focus or easily regain focus if their mind has begun to wander. The wristband is adapted to alert a user at defined intervals over a period of use or on demand remotely, which reminds the user that he or she should re-engage in an activity (meeting, classroom, etc.), wherein the method trains the user over time to regain focus on their own based on expected stimulus from the band that may be removed after extended exposure thereto. The method also contemplates tracking attention spans and success rates, along with reward systems for improving users. | 09-27-2012 |
20120251988 | REWARD DISPENSER - A reward dispenser is disclosed. An example reward dispenser includes a trap door to keep a reward from falling out of a dispenser compartment. The reward dispenser also includes a release mechanism to open the trap door so that all reward in the dispenser compartment falls outside of the reward dispenser. The reward dispenser also includes a closing mechanism to automatically close the trap door after the reward falls out of the reward dispenser, so that another reward can be loaded into the dispenser compartment. | 10-04-2012 |
20120251989 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MODULATING CONSOLIDATION OF MEMORY DURING SLEEP - Devices, systems and methods to modify memory and/or cognitive function by delivering a sensory stimulus paired with learned material at opportune physiological periods during sleep. For example, described herein are systems, methods and devices to enhance a user's cognitive function in such areas as memorization and learning. A machine (e.g., a system or device) may be used to identify opportune periods of the sleep cycle and to deliver a stimulus during specific phases of the sleep cycle to facilitate or interrupt memory consolidation. In some variations the machine records ambient sensory inputs during awake acquisition or reinforcement/relearning and replays all or an extracted form of the ambient sensory stimuli a specified portion of the user's sleep. | 10-04-2012 |
20120264092 | System and method for multidimensional personal development using defined facets and subfacets - A multidimensional personal development system and method are realized using defined facets and subfacets. The personal development system and method define and track different facets of a user's state of being and different subfacets within these facets, enable the user to define additional subfacets that are pivotal to the user and track these pivotal subfacets, enable the user to view and share the evolving descriptive states over time and relative to aspirational states recorded by the user, and apply the evolving descriptive states and aspirational states to compute and present indicators that summarize the user's progress relative to the facets and subfacets. | 10-18-2012 |
20120264093 | Product Educational Tool - A disposable absorbent article system includes a disposable absorbent article having a liner, an article absorbent core, and an article reactive mechanism configured to produce a result upon exposure to an insult; and an article simulator having a substrate and a simulator reactive mechanism configured to produce the result upon exposure to a simulant, the article simulator having fewer components than the absorbent article. A method for facilitating training includes providing an article simulator having a substrate and a simulator reactive mechanism configured to produce a simulator result upon exposure to a simulant, wherein the simulator result simulates an article result obtained from an insult to a disposable absorbent article having an article reactive mechanism, and wherein the article simulator has fewer components than the absorbent article. | 10-18-2012 |
20120264094 | Product Education Tool - A disposable absorbent article system includes a disposable absorbent article having a liner, an article absorbent core, and an article reactive mechanism configured to produce a result upon exposure to an insult; and an article simulator having a substrate and a simulator reactive mechanism configured to produce the result upon exposure to a simulant, the article simulator having fewer components than the absorbent article. A method for facilitating training includes providing an article simulator having a substrate and a simulator reactive mechanism configured to produce a simulator result upon exposure to a simulant, wherein the simulator result simulates an article result obtained from an insult to a disposable absorbent article having an article reactive mechanism, and wherein the article simulator has fewer components than the absorbent article. | 10-18-2012 |
20120264095 | EMOTION ABREACTION DEVICE AND USING METHOD OF EMOTION ABREACTION DEVICE - An emotion abreaction device including a body, a control unit, a man machine interacting module and an emotion abreaction unit is provided. The control unit, the man machine interacting module and the emotion abreaction unit are disposed in the body. The man machine interacting module is electrically connected to the control unit for the user to select an emotion abreaction mode. The emotion abreaction unit is electrically connected to the control unit and has at least one sensor to measure force and/or volume for the user to abreact by knocking and/or yelling. Moreover, a using method of an emotion abreaction device includes turning on the emotion abreaction device, and then, responding to the user with a voice and/or an image according to the sensing result of the magnitude of the volume and/or the force after the user knocks and/or yells to an emotion abreaction unit of the emotion abreaction device. | 10-18-2012 |
20120270189 | Link Pencils - Link pencils, pens, or other writing utensils provide an improved method of discretely signaling special needs students in a class room setting. The invention utilizes radio frequency communication by using a transmitting device located inside of a writing utensil pencil that talks to a receiving device located inside a separate writing utensil. Once installed, there is no visible way to distinguish the modified pencils from ordinary pencils. The pencil containing the transmitting device is used by an instructor. The pencil containing the receiving device, which in some embodiments may be a transceiver such as a Bluetooth™ transceiver but without input to transmit a user controlled signal, is meant to be used by a student. When the instructor pushes down on the eraser or end of the writing utensil containing the transmitting device, the device containing the receiving device vibrates or emits light. This signals the student to pay attention. | 10-25-2012 |
20120270190 | Career Selection and Psychological Profiling - A method, software, database and system for determining optimal career choices, psychological profiles (i.e., mental health profiles) and genetic based predispositions of an individual are presented in which an attribute profile of the individual containing genetic and non-genetic attributes is compared against a database containing combinations of genetic and non-genetic attributes that are statistically associated with career, psychological and other genetically influenced attributes derived from other individuals. | 10-25-2012 |
20120270191 | Method and Apparatus for Personal Awareness and Growth - An presentation generator is disclosed for generating presentations for interacting with a user on a personal topic of, e.g., the user's selection, wherein the presentations assist the user in obtaining a greater awareness of his/her motivations and/or behaviors relating to the topic. In one embodiment, the presentation generator generates and presents to the user textual observations, questions, and/or statements for the user's consideration. Such presentations use and/or are consistent with textual descriptions obtained from: (a) the results of one or more personality/motivation test results, and (b) user inputs, e.g., regarding the selected topic together with his/her confidence in the validity of such inputs. The invention organizes the textual descriptions so that outputs to the user can be generated from various personality/motivational perspectives thereby assisting the user in viewing the topic of discussion from different perspectives and thereby becoming more aware of his/her biases, motivations, and/or concerns relating to the topic. | 10-25-2012 |
20120288835 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects behavior information and biological information of a user as a target; a biological information estimating unit that calculates estimated biological information by applying, to a metabolism model, the behavior information and the biological information detected by the detecting unit; and a suggesting unit that suggests, to the user, a recommended behavior calculated based on the estimated biological information calculated by the biological information estimating unit. | 11-15-2012 |
20120295237 | EXERCISE REWARD CONTAINER - Motivation for performing exercise may be provided with an exercise reward holding system. The system may include a pedometer and a container to hold a reward object. The container may have a lock programmable to release upon receipt of a signal from the pedometer. The pedometer may be operable in a location separate from the container. | 11-22-2012 |
20120308970 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROMOTING BEHAVIORAL CHANGE IN HUMANS - Apparatus and methods for providing a comprehensive system for human behavior modification are disclosed. The apparatus and methods employ networking allowing user devices, and primarily to allow communication with a first user device having one more applications or functions to assist a targeted user, such as a child, to promote human behavior modification in that user. Additionally, a second user device may be connected to the network that further provides communication and functionalities for a second, assisting user, such as a parent, to assist and motivate the targeted user via the first user device in human behavior modification. The system provides multiple functions or applications to engender cause and effect motivation, reward motivation, personal management, and visualization to effect behavioral changes in the targeted user with assistance from the assisting users, as well as social networking and collaborative networking. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308971 | EMOTION RECOGNITION-BASED BODYGUARD SYSTEM, EMOTION RECOGNITION DEVICE, IMAGE AND SENSOR CONTROL APPARATUS, PERSONAL PROTECTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF - An emotion recognition device includes a user interface configured to display input-related menus and receive a control command; and a sensing unit configured to sense a bio-signal of a user or a surrounding environment signal of the user using at least one sensor. Further, the emotion recognition device includes an emotion recognition management unit configured to determine based on the sensed signal whether a transition to a danger emotional signal or a criminal emotional signal for the user has occurred, and then requesting tracking emotion recognition. Furthermore, the emotion recognition device includes a dangerous and criminal situation action unit configured to request emotion recognition handling of a dangerous or criminal situation depending on a danger or criminal emotion. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308972 | METHOD AND APPARATUS ACCOUNTING FOR INDEPENDENT COGNITIVE CAPACITIES IN THE RIGHT VS. LEFT HALF OF VISION - A method of displaying information includes presenting representations of information in a manner accounting for independent cognitive capacities corresponding to a subject's left and right halves of visual space. Weightings of importance may be assigned to the information and used to display the representations in the left half or the right half of the visual space with zero or few other representations. Presenting the representations can also include inspecting content of the information and determining a position on a display to present the content as a function of the information previously, currently, or in the future displayed on the display. In a display system, a presentation unit is configured to present, e.g. generate, representations of information in a manner accounting for the independent cognitive capacities, and a display unit is configured to display the representations. Displaying information can include arranging physical objects in locations of a subject's expected visual space. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308973 | KIT AND METHOD FOR PROMOTION OF POSITIVE ADJUSTMENT TO ILLNESS AND TRAUMA - A kit for use in promoting a patient's positive adjustment includes a plurality of module units, each module unit containing instructions for coping with a specific stress symptom, and a transitional object having a module unit receiver. The module unit receiver can receive one of the module units and deliver the instructions on the module unit to the patient. A method of promoting positive adjustment includes the steps of providing a patient with a transitional object and a plurality of module units, each module unit containing instructions for coping with a specific stress symptom, identifying a stress symptom, selecting a module unit having instructions for coping with the stress symptom and delivering the instructions on the selected module unit to the patient with the transitional object. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308974 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATION OF THE INTERPRETATIVE ANALYSIS OF A DIGITAL LINE DRAWN BY A PERSON - The method for the automation of the interpretative analysis of a digital line drawn by a person comprises: a preliminary step for the acquisition of an archive of digital lines drawn by persons; a preliminary step for the acquisition of graphic evaluations of each of said lines of said archive; a preliminary step for the acquisition of psychological evaluations of the persons who have drawn each of said lines of said archive; a preliminary step of providing a first and/or at least a second supervised neural network and relative training to associate, for each of said lines of said archive, the graphic evaluations with the corresponding psychological evaluations; a step for the acquisition of a new digital line drawn by a person for the execution of its interpretative analysis; a step for the acquisition of the graphic evaluations for said new line; and an association step wherein said first and/or second trained supervised neural network automatically associates the corresponding psychological evaluations with the graphic evaluations of said new line. | 12-06-2012 |
20120315613 | ONLINE PLATFORM FOR LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT - An online lifestyle management platform designed to address and manage the multiple factors affecting an individual's lifestyle is discussed. The lifestyle management platform may include an assessment evaluation tool used to establish a profile for an individual by assessing the individual's lifestyle factors. The lifestyle factors being assessed may include an individual's physical and mental condition, occupational and personal stress factors and goal satisfaction. Based on the profile, the lifestyle management platform generates a customized lifestyle management program such as a stress management program for the individual. | 12-13-2012 |
20120322036 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED MEANS FOR ASSESSING LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS - The present invention relates to methods of assessing disease susceptibility associated with dietary and lifestyle risk factors. The invention provides for analysis of alleles at loci of genes associated with lifestyle risk factors, and the disease susceptibility profile of an individual is determined by reference to datasets which further match the risk factor with lifestyle recommendations in order to produce a personalized lifestyle advice plan. | 12-20-2012 |
20120329017 | Method and system of coaching behavior - A method of coaching behavior by using at least one interactive device, including the steps of: (a) creating a profile through the interactive device, wherein the profile contains at least one type of information, wherein the profile is shown to other peers through a predetermined communication network, (b) setting an objective in relation to the type of information in the interactive device, (c) delivering a push notification to the user through the interactive device, (d) generating a corresponding change to the profile to be shown in the interactive device, wherein when the request is not fulfilled, a negative effect is generated in the profile as the change of the profile, and when the request is substantially fulfilled, a positive effect is generated in the profile as the change of the profile, and (e) receiving feedback from the peers through the communication network in response to the change of the profile. | 12-27-2012 |
20120329018 | RESPONSE SCORING SYSTEM FOR VERBAL BEHAVIOR WITHIN A BEHAVIORAL STREAM WITH A REMOTE CENTRAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED HANDHELD COMMUNICATING DEVICES - A system, method and related devices for monitoring and improving the training and social eye contact and communication skills of developmentally challenged individuals such as autistic individuals with special needs in improving their interpersonal communicating and other skills. A WatchMe component of the system and method monitors and obtains qualitative and quantitative information about the eye contact habits of a subject being trained or interviewed. It provides stimuli that promotes and encourages improvements in the eye contact habits of the subject. | 12-27-2012 |
20130004924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED TREATMENT OF BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS - A system and method are provided for treating excessive or problematic computer use. In at least one embodiment, a method is employed to treat excessive or problematic computer use by acquiring information about the unwanted user activity, monitoring user activity for the unwanted behavior, controlling the behavior when it occurs, enabling the user to record self-observations and evaluating the results. This method may employ a computer based system to treat excessive or problematic computer use which includes configuring a user activity monitor with constraints, programmatically enforcing those constraints, reporting the activities monitored and restricted, and enabling a user to input self-observations. Potential constraints include a complete bar on the user activity, as well as, progressively decreasing the amount of time the user may engage in the activity, i.e. titrating the user activity. | 01-03-2013 |
20130017517 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LEAVING MESSAGES FOR PASSED LOVED ONESAANM SCIANNA; CARL ROYAACI LisleAAST ILAACO USAAGP SCIANNA; CARL ROY Lisle IL US - An apparatus and method for people to leave a message to a passed loved one includes a web site established to provide potential users with a description of the service available. The website may explain the website's owner, a therapist's credentials, and may explain the concept of providing closure with the methods and apparatus of the present invention. The website may provide information regarding a cost to the user. The website will direct the user to call a certain phone number to leave a message for their passed loved one. | 01-17-2013 |
20130017518 | Method of Permanently Removing Repeating Upsetting Emotions and Behaviors Associated with a Person, Persons, Events, and Situations - The present invention is a method to permanently remove repeating upsetting emotions and behaviors that are associated with a person, persons, events, and situations. This method is intended for use as an application with electronic devices in which instructions can be displayed to a user through a graphic user interface. The user performs an emotional transformation process by following the instructions which can be in the form of steps, processes, or imagination exercises. The emotional transformation process eliminates the repeating patterns that cause repeating upsetting emotions and replaces the upsetting emotions with positive emotions. The emotional transformation process takes place within the user's imagination in which feelings, thoughts, and emotions are formed into images within the imagination. The user is not required to input specific details about a troubling issue causing the upsetting emotions, nor is the user required to analyze the specific details and troubling issues. | 01-17-2013 |
20130022946 | SELF-EXPLORATION THERAPEUTIC ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE - A self-exploration assembly includes a base and a plurality of petals each shaped so that when the plurality of petals are coupled to the base in a first orientation, the plurality of petals together resemble an onion, and, when the plurality of petals are coupled to the base in a second orientation, the plurality of petals resemble a flower. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022947 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING BEHAVIORAL STUDIES OF AN INDIVIDUAL - System and method of data collection in a virtual environment to study the behavior of a user regarding the virtual environment stimuli, comprising: Peripheral Control Devices, Peripheral Representation Devices, and Peripheral Capture Devices; a Processor, for processing information of the virtual environment and the behavior of the user; a storage medium, configured with an Application module to provide the virtual environment; a dedicated storage medium, for storing a database with information provided by the Application module of the virtual environment and the behavior of said user; and Visualization means configured to display graphical representation of said user behavior illustrated by a Core On-Line Module with the database through dedicated storage; wherein said peripheral devices include a virtual reality lens, portable headphones and a peripheral capture device for a eye tracking, to record the eye movement of said user in this virtual environment, within the virtual reality lens. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022948 | Detecting Behavioral Deviations by Measuring Eye Movements - Detecting behavioral deviations in members of a cohort group is provided. Ocular metadata is analyzed to identify patterns in changes in a size of a pupil of an eye of a member of the cohort group captured by a set of cameras. The ocular metadata describes the changes in the size of the pupil. The patterns in the changes in the size of the pupil include a rate of changes in the size of the pupil, a degree of change in the size of the pupil, and a number of changes in the size of the pupil. The patterns in the changes in the size of the pupil indicate any external stimuli associated with the changes in the size of the pupil. In responsive to the changes in the size of the pupil indicating behavioral deviations in the member, the member is identified as a person of interest. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022949 | Method of Teaching Confidence Trick by Means of Motivational Education Training to Prevent Problems - A method of teaching the confidence trick by means of motivational education training to prevent problems includes trainees. The trainees are educated by mentors of a motivational and educational learning and training academy. The mentors train the trainees to control their mind and to write an automatic writing statement. The automatic writing statement is written by implementing the automatic writing method. The trainees are also train to create an exact copy, where the exact copy includes a random question, the automatic writing statement, and a correct answer. Each of the trainees has a global warming guide and a criminal history book. The global warming guide includes a plurality of automatic writing statements, and the criminal history book includes a plurality of exact copies. The trainees are also able to obtain a degree program by submitting a predetermined number of the automatic writing statement and exact copy. | 01-24-2013 |
20130029301 | Profiling Method - A method, computer system and a computer program product for analyzing the personality of a user. The method comprises presenting a plurality of questions to the user and requesting the user to select one of multiple responses. Each question is associated with evaluation of one of N personality aspects and there are at least two questions associated with each said personality aspect. The method further comprises converting the selected response for each question to a score; summing the scores for the questions associated with each of said N personality aspects, to obtain an accumulated score for each of said N personality aspects; and selecting at least one of M psychological archetypes according to said accumulated scores. Each of said M psychological archetypes corresponds to a combination of at least two of said N personality aspects, and M is greater than N. | 01-31-2013 |
20130029302 | PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT BY PRE-SCREENING AND CORRELATION OF UNDERLYING PHYSICAL CONDITIONS - An improved method for pre-screening for underlying physiological conditions prior to psychiatric assessment. The method comprises the steps of administering a predetermined battery of tests including blood tests, urine tests and genetic tests, entering test results in a form, and differentially correlating the entered test results to underlying physical conditions relevant to a symptomatic psychiatric disorder. The pre-screening allows a correct diagnosis of the physical condition rather than a misdiagnosis of some neurological condition that is merely symptomatic of the physical condition. The invention may be implemented in a computer architecture using software. | 01-31-2013 |
20130034836 | Systems, Devices, and/or Methods for Handheld Devices - Certain exemplary embodiments provide a cover adapted to partially enclose a handheld device. The cover can comprise a thermochromic material, which can be embedded in the cover. The thermochromic material can be adapted to change color and/or appearance responsive to a temperature change. In certain exemplary embodiments, the thermochromic material can be adapted to transfer heat from the handheld device to an environment surrounding the handheld device. | 02-07-2013 |
20130065208 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING A CANDIDATE'S PSYCHOLOGICAL FIT FOR A ROLE - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive a first psychological profile identifying one or more psychological facets associated with a candidate for a role and a set of second psychological profiles identifying one or more psychological facets associated with the role. Each second psychological profile is associated with an assessment of the role by an evaluator from a set of evaluators. The code represents instructions to cause the processor to receive a set of post-interview assessments, each of which is from an interviewer from a set of interviewers and includes a degree of confidence that the candidate possesses the one or more psychological facets associated with the candidate. The code further represents instructions to cause the processor to compute an indicator associated with the first psychological profile, the set of second psychological profiles and the set of post-interview assessments. | 03-14-2013 |
20130071821 | Systems, Computer Readable Program Products, and Computer Implemented Methods to Facilitate On-Demand, User-Driven, Virtual Sponsoring Sessions for One or More User-Selected Topics Through User-Designed Virtual Sponsors - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention beneficially provide systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable program products to facilitate a plurality of user-driven virtual sponsoring sessions for a plurality of users through one or more user-designed virtual sponsors where the topic of the virtual sponsoring session, the type of virtual sponsoring session, and the form of each virtual sponsoring statement is controlled by each of the plurality of users. The virtual sponsoring sessions can be for any subject matter domain through user-designed virtual sponsors that have no domain-specific knowledge, such that users are provided with real-time, on-demand access to virtual sponsoring services via a user-designed virtual sponsor designed and constructed responsive to the personality, preferences, and specifications of each individual user. Moreover, each user-designed virtual sponsor can be, for instance, capable of assisting each individual user to effectively generate change, strengthen identity and values, define goals, and bring dreams and goals into reality. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071822 | Interactive System for use in Connection with the Identification and/or Management of Psychological Issues - A system for use in the management of psychological issues comprises: a user terminal connected to a remote server | 03-21-2013 |
20130078600 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER INTERVENTIONS - Methods and systems for observing/analyzing, interactive behavior are presented. In one instance, the method for observing/analyzing interactive behavior includes interacting, using a robot, with a subject and obtaining data from interaction between the subject and the robot, the data from the data acquisition components, the data being used for diagnosis and/or charting progress. In one instance, the robot includes data acquisition components, interaction inducing components (such as, but not limited to, movable eyelids, movable appendages, sound generating components), a control component operatively connected to the interaction inducing components and a processing component operatively connected to the control component and the data acquisition components, the processing component being configured to obtain data from the data acquisition components, the data being used for diagnosis and/or charting progress. In one instance, the robot is integrated with a computer-aided system for diagnosis, monitoring, and therapy. | 03-28-2013 |
20130078601 | Diabetic Patients Compliance and Outcomes by Publicizing that Increased Compliance Improves Blood Glucose Control and Outcomes - Improved outcomes of patients resulting from: continuous monitoring of blood glucose level, other metabolites, food consumption, and preferably, exertion level; and resulting from providing personalized education and other advice on insulin and drug administration, food consumption and timing, and exercise type and intensity—are publicized to increase patient compliance with the recommended diet, exercise, and/or testing, drug administration, and improve patient clinical outcomes; or are publicized to recruit new patients into the system, and thereby improve the outcomes and overall health of an increasing proportion of the diabetic patient population. The improved blood glucose level control or other measurable parameters that follow from increased patient compliance can also be publicized to improve patient compliance or recruit more patient into the system. | 03-28-2013 |
20130089841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT USING A COMPUTING DEVICE - A system and method for facilitating personal development using a computing device. The method includes generating a machine-readable foundation profile by performing sub-steps including querying a user through a user interface module and providing a user access to an education module and a discovery module. The sub-steps include storing answers to queries in association with a user. The method also includes guiding a user through a process of issue resolution by querying a user in regards to a specific situation and teaching a user in regards to taking responsibility for their feelings and/or behavior. The sub-steps include teaching a user about having an intent to learn and managing an inner guidance dialogue within the user. The method further includes facilitating a user taking action by displaying an intended action from the action profile, and teaching the user how to productively take action and facilitating self-evaluation by the user. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089842 | EXERCISE SYSTEM - An example exercise apparatus includes a processor, a movable element, a panel including a display and at least one input device, and wireless communication circuitry configured to receive exercise program information and mental activity data. The processor is configured to use exercise program information to control a parameter associated with the movable element during use of the exercise apparatus and to control the display to display the mental activity data during the use of the exercise apparatus. | 04-11-2013 |
20130095457 | Method for cognitive detection of deception - A method for cognitive appraisal uses a process that an interested party can use in order to attain indirect information about the goals, inclinations, or attitudes of a target person. Demographic parameters of the evaluated subject are entered into an INTERNET-enabled computer. The subject views a fixation point first and second images, a targeted stimulus, and evaluation stimuli. Based upon the subject's reaction to the evaluation stimuli, the subject is evaluated. | 04-18-2013 |
20130101970 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING PSYCHOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE PATTERN INFORMATION FOR MATCHING WITH TARGET INFORMATION - A computer-implemented system for creating a classification significance pattern for end users, and enabling end users to use their classification significance pattern to conduct custom searches for target information, such as books, other textual content, information about products, services, and jobs, as well as enabling third parties, such as vendors and potential employers, to target their advertisements to groups of users meeting a certain classification. A classification significance pattern is created by having a user take a psychological test, for example, that includes a personality test, a design taste test, a recreation/travel test, a life satisfaction test, an interactive game module, or a career/job test, and having the system automatically score such test and classifying the user based on a defined abstract classification. | 04-25-2013 |
20130108995 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND INFLUENCING BODY POSITION | 05-02-2013 |
20130108996 | SUBJECTIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS | 05-02-2013 |
20130108997 | Matching System for Career and Academic Counseling | 05-02-2013 |
20130122474 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING AND DETERMINING ACCEPTABILITY OF UNVERIFIED SURVEY ITEMS - A computer implemented method for determining acceptability of an unverified survey item can include outputting interactive displays comprising a survey. The survey can include a verified quantitative item for measuring respondent positions along a continuum for a first trait, and the verified quantitative item can include a prompt and a plurality of quantitative response choices. The survey can include an unverified non-quantitative item for measuring respondent positions along the continuum for the first trait, and the unverified non-quantitative item can include a prompt and a plurality of non-quantitative response choices. A plurality of responses to the verified quantitative item and the plurality of unverified non-quantitative items can be received from a plurality of users. Psychometric acceptability of the unverified non-quantitative item can be assessed based at least in part on the plurality of responses to the unverified non-quantitative item relative to the plurality of responses to the verified quantitative item. | 05-16-2013 |
20130130213 | ACTIVITY MONITOR AND ANALYZER WITH VOICE DIRECTION FOR EXERCISE - A system is disclosed for monitoring and analyzing activity of a subject. The system includes a condition setting unit for setting a schedule for the subject in association with a clock, a voice recording and play-back unit for recording a set of personalized messages for the subject, and a motion detection unit for monitoring, in association with the clock, whether an expected activity has occurred. The voice recording and play-back unit plays one of the set of personalized messages responsive to whether the expected activity has occurred. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130214 | BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTIC EXTRACTION DEVICE, A BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTIC EXTRACTION SYSTEM, A BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTIC EXTRACTION METHOD AND A BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTIC EXTRACTION PROGRAM - A behavior pattern storing unit stores stay point information for a plurality of stay points including a stay point of a first behavior base type corresponding to a first behavior type and a stay point of a second behavior base type corresponding to a second behavior type, a behavior characteristic extraction unit extracts days on which a stay at a stay point of the first behavior base type was performed as a day regarding the first behavior type by referring the stay point information, calculates, if a stay at an other stay point different from the stay points of the first and the second behavior base type was performed on days regarding the first behavior type, a stay frequency at the stay point of the first behavior base type during the same time zone as the stay at the other stay point, for the days regarding the first behavior type. | 05-23-2013 |
20130137072 | TEST AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF EXCESSIVE FATIGABILITY AS INDICATOR OF SUBCLINICAL DEPRESSION OR PREDICTOR OF UPCOMING DEPRESSION - A test or system for detection of increased/excessive fatigability and as a screening tool for on- or up-coming depression, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Fatigue is dissected into components including general feelings, activity, and emotions, each expressed through sets or pairs of opposite feelings. Between the opposite feelings there is a scale, from which the person will select the most applicable point that best reflects the person's present feelings. The scale is scored, and based on the score it is determined whether to perform the test again, or to evaluate for depression. If the test is performed again, need for further evaluation is determined from that score. | 05-30-2013 |
20130143185 | DETERMINING USER EMOTIONAL STATE - An emotional state of a user of a computing device may be determined. For example, the user's emotional state may be determined based on a predicted or expected impact of a content item or object on the user's emotional state. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143186 | METHOD FOR TEACHING SOCIAL BEHAVIOR - A method for teaching social behavior to students comprises the steps of identifying rules of conduct, establishing positive consequences for obeying the rules of conduct and establishing negative consequences for disobeying the rules of conduct, teaching the students the rules of conduct and the consequences for obeying and disobeying the rules of conduct, tracking and recording on a periodic basis the conduct of students in disobeying the rules of conduct, establishing a grading scale and assigning to the students a grade based on their conduct and the grading scale, monitoring over time the changes to the grade, conducting behavior class for the students, and re-evaluating the grading scale based on the grade made by the students over time. | 06-06-2013 |
20130149683 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYMPTOM BASED REPORTING - The present invention provides a computer-assisted process for receiving cognitive behavior data for use in a therapy, the computer-assisted process comprises the steps of: (a) providing at least one mobile device to a patient, wherein the at least one mobile device is functionally connected to a central repository; (b) capturing and storing, in the central repository, via an interface on the at least one mobile device, the cognitive behavior data of the patient, thereby enabling remote and impromptu receipt of the data without delay; (c) retrieving the cognitive behavior data of the patient from the central repository; (d) reviewing the cognitive behavior data by the health care provider as part of the therapy to produce a review; and (e) having the health care provider prescribe treatment based on the review. | 06-13-2013 |
20130164721 | AUGMENTED COGNITIVE TRAINING - The present invention provides methods of therapy of cognitive deficits associated with a central nervous system disorder or condition, methods of enhancing cognitive performance and methods for repeated stimulation of neuronal activity or a pattern of neuronal activity, such as that underlying a specific neuronal circuit(s). The methods comprise combining cognitive training protocols and a general administration of CREB pathway-enhancing agents. | 06-27-2013 |
20130164722 | BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS DEVICE - A behavior analysis device has an object extraction portion that processes a frame image of an imaging area being imaged by an imaging device and extracts an object being imaged, a position detection portion that detects a position in the imaging area, for each object extracted by the object extraction portion, a posture estimation portion that estimates an posture of the object, for each object extracted by the object extraction portion, and a behavior determination portion that determines a behavior of the object, for each object extracted by the object extraction portion, based on the position in the imaging area that is detected by the position detection portion and the posture estimated by the posture estimation portion. | 06-27-2013 |
20130171596 | AUGMENTED REALITY NEUROLOGICAL EVALUATION METHOD - A system and method for neurological testing involves prompting a subject or user to engage in body and head movements, measuring physical response, and then using the measured response to evaluate the neurological condition of the subject. The subject may wear a head-mounted display, for example, to aid in prompting the head and/or body movements. The subject may be prompted to engage in movements simulating a real-world task, such as a sports-specific activity. Results may be compared with those of a baseline test. The evaluation may be used to aid in determining if the user or subject can return to the task, for example to return to activity in a sport during which the user sustained a possible neurological injury. | 07-04-2013 |
20130177883 | Systems and Methods for Directing Brain Activity - Methods and devices are provided for monitoring and manipulating a person's brainwaves to achieve a desired mental state. A method of improving a student's test-taking ability includes analyzing EEG data to determine a student's focus level during an exam and providing a suggestion to the student for improving the student's focus level. A method of manipulating brain activity includes measuring a listener's brainwave frequency and providing binaural beats to the listener to guide the listener to a desired mental state. The binaural beats may be incorporated into music in such a way that they may not be distinguished over the music. A portable apparatus includes EEG electrodes connected to earphones with malleable wire that facilitates preferential placement and stability on a user's scalp. | 07-11-2013 |
20130183646 | BIOMETRIC SENSING AND PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR MOBILE GAMING, EDUCATION, AND WELLNESS APPLICATIONS - An apparatus for interoperably utilizing multiple biosensor data obtained from a finger of the user. A biometric sensor board is retained in a housing adapted for retaining a finger of the user and maintaining multiple sensors in contact with the skin thereof. Implementations are described for fingertip and ring mounted sensor boards. In one implementation, these sensors can be sensors electrodermal response (EDR), or photoplethysmograph (PPG) signals, or temperature, or acceleration in three axes, and combinations thereof. The biometric sensor board registers and processes the signals from the sensors and communicates them to a mobile device which interoperably utilizes multiple sensor information to determine aspects of user emotional state within an application to generate results which are displayed on the mobile device. | 07-18-2013 |
20130189659 | Appraisal Process Framework for Scrum Projects - A method for computing appraisal information concerning an individual which comprises receiving, by a server, questionnaire responses evaluating the individual from a plurality of client devices, the questionnaire responses including (i) self evaluation responses, by the individual, to a plurality of questions and (ii) peer evaluation responses, by peers of the individual, to the plurality of questions; computing appraisal information from the questionnaire responses, by: (i) for each question, computing an aggregate peer evaluation from peer evaluation responses corresponding to that question; and (ii) for each question, computing a metric indicative of a discrepancy between a self perception of the individual's performance as indicated in the self evaluation response corresponding to that question and a peer perception of the individual's performance as indicated in the aggregate peer evaluation corresponding to that question, the appraisal information including the computed metric. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189660 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING AND DEVELOPING THE MENTAL ACUITY AND BEHAVIOR OF A PERSON - Methods and systems for assessing and developing the mental acuity and behavior of a person are provided. A method of assessing mental acuity and character can include using a computer system to executing user interactive exercises involving the use of at least one of visual acuity skills, operational thinking skills and behavioral skills of the user. During execution of each user interactive exercise, the computer system can receive user inputs including body movement of a user and touch interaction between the user and a user interface in communication with the computer system. The computer system can measure and record performance data related to the timing and accuracy of the user inputs in each user interactive exercise. The computer system can processes the performance data to generate scores in assessment categories that provide measurements of at least one of the visual acuity skills, operational thinking skills and behavioral skills of the user. Computer systems and memory devices for implementing the disclosed methods are also disclosed. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189661 | SCORING HUMOR REACTIONS TO DIGITAL MEDIA - As an individual or a group of individuals view various types of humor, a webcam, using video capture, collects mental state data from the individual or individuals. The webcam data is analyzed to determine physiological data, facial data, and actigraphy data. Further, the direct collection of physiological data—electrodermal activity, heart rate, heart rate variation, skin temperature, and respiration—from an individual or individuals complements the webcam data. Analysis of this mental state data allows for the accurate comprehension of individual humor preferences and allows the individual's humor preferences to be used by the system to recommend humorous material based on these preferences. | 07-25-2013 |
20130196297 | INTERACTIVE SHOPPING - HEALTH & WELLNESS - Various aspects are directed to providing health and wellness guidance and support both in social settings and through other on-line platforms. The on-line platforms can integrate health and wellness goal definition, activity tracking, grocery shopping, pharmacy shopping, and general merchandise purchasing to provide advice and alternative recommendations during any purchase activity. Recommendations and advise can include on-line visual display components. For example, a user avatar display can be configured to reflect health and wellness activity of the user. The user avatar can be configured to display a current health and wellness state for the user. The avatar can be modified over time to reflect changes in the health and wellness state for the user, based on the user's goal performance. Further, the visual display component can be shared over various social networks to promote improvement in health and wellness both individually and among social groups. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL EXERCISE - A computer-implemented method to provide a physical activity challenge with an accompanying reward for completing the challenge is provided. Data describing the challenge relating to at least one physical activity is received. Data describing at least one reward for completing the challenge is received. Progress of the challenge is tracked. The tracked progress is analyzed to determine whether the challenge is completed. Upon determining the challenge is completed, the reward is delivered. | 08-01-2013 |
20130203027 | Adaptive Set Discrimination Procedure - The present disclosure relates to methods and tools to enhance cognition in an individual. The methods involve presenting to the individual multiple sets of stimuli (e.g. two or more sets). Each set of the multiple sets contains two or more background stimuli. Out of the multiple sets presented to the individual, at least one set also contains at least one anomalous stimulus and such set is referred to as the target set. The method then receives an input from the individual that has been instructed to respond to the anomalous stimulus in the target set. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203028 | COORDINATION AND CONTROL TEST DEVICE - A device measuring the control of the individual on the hand and eye coordination and the control of the individual on the hand and arm muscles during the response the individual gives after he/she senses the stimulus visually, in the area of measurement and evaluation of the psychomotor and cognitive processes. | 08-08-2013 |
20130209977 | Performance Assessment Tool - Embodiments of the invention relate to cognitive performance and/or psychological assessment of a subject. Measurement of behavioral status and cognitive efficiency is based upon batteries of tests that include a combination of cognitive and/or psychological tests. A module is provided with a processing unit in communication with memory to administer the cognitive and/or psychological tests and to compute an assessment. Results of the assessment are conveyed on a visual display of the module. In some cases, additional sensor data may be added to the assessment. | 08-15-2013 |
20130216985 | Method of Suppressing of Irrelevant Stimuli - The present disclosure relates to methods and tools for enhancing cognition in an individual. The methods involve presenting to the individual multiple sets of stimuli. Each set of the multiple set contains two or more stimuli and at least one set of the multiple sets contains a target stimulus. The method then receives an input from the individual, and informs the individual as to whether the input is a correct response. The methods encompass iterations of stimuli presentation, receiving of the input, and lastly, generation of feedback to the individual until the individual learns and retains what the target stimulus is. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216986 | COGNITIVE APTITUDE ASSESSMENT TOOL - Applicants' innate cognitive aptitude assessment tool is implemented on one or more computing devices within a system, to determine one or more innate cognitive aptitudes of a participant. The participant takes an exam including questions that are geared towards assessing one or more innate cognitive aptitudes by requesting a response to one or more images. The responses of the participant are evaluated and an innate cognitive aptitude profile of the participant is created. The profile of the participant is compared to one or more known cognitive aptitude profiles and a category of the participant's cognitive aptitude is, in turn, determined. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216987 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDUCATING AND INFLUENCING AN INDIVIDUAL - A method and apparatus for influencing a person to develop, accept and/or understand a concept, position or idea using questioning, including a technique sometimes known as the Socratic Method. A universe of question and answer subsets comprising questions and respective multiple choice answers to each question designed in advance, arranged and inter-connected on a stand-alone computer, a computer on a local area network or computer network, or any computer network and displayed in such a way as to allow the participant to follow the individual's own path by selecting answers he accepts, which tend to logically lead the individual toward agreement and or understanding on the subject. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216988 | BRAIN TRAINING SYSTEM USING EXERCISE BICYCLE - Provided is a brain training system using an exercise bicycle, including: a display device configured to reproduce a moving picture selected by a user and display the moving picture on a screen; a control box configured to control the display device; and a driving device configured to generate a driving information signal while being driven by physical driving power of the user and transfer the driving information signal to the control box, in which the control box controls the reproduction of the moving picture of the display device according to the driving information signal transferred from the driving device. | 08-22-2013 |
20130224702 | Test Pallet Assembly - An optimization engine builds a set of test forms, called a pallet for use in a qualification test setting. The pallet is generated using a optimization engine programmed with constraints and goals for each test form in the pallet and for the pallet in general. A test information floor is set at the cut point of the test which causes test items to be focused at the area of the test where the pass/fail decision is made. Further constraints may be programmed to maximize the item diversity, that is, to spread the use of available test items as uniformly as possible. | 08-29-2013 |
20130224703 | Test Pallet Assembly and Family Assignment - An optimization engine builds a set of test forms, called a pallet for use in a qualification test setting. The pallet is generated using a optimization engine programmed with constraints and goals for each test form in the pallet and for the pallet in general. A test information floor is set at the cut point of the test which causes test items to be focused at the area of the test where the pass/fail decision is made. The test items may be separated into families by assigning test items selected for a test form in each test generation cycle to one of several families. Because each family has unique test items compared to other families, a person re-taking a qualification test from a particular pallet may be given a test form from another family, ensuring that no item from the first administration will appear on the subsequent test. | 08-29-2013 |
20130224704 | Method and System for Behavior Modification and Sales Promotion - A system for behavior modification and sales promotion includes a child computer device having a computer application stored thereon in a non-transitory computer readable memory. The computer application of the child computer device includes a graphical user interface allowing for a child to interact with a fictitious character. A parent computer device is provided having a computer application stored thereon in a non-transitory computer readable memory, the computer application of the parent computer device including a graphical user interface allowing a parent to control the fictitious character with which the child interacts on the child computer device. The system also includes a system server. The parent computer device, the child computer device and system server are connected by a global communication network. | 08-29-2013 |
20130230833 | Method for Enhanced Memorization and Retention of Consecutive Text - A method for improving the memorization and recall of scripts, speeches, prose or other consecutive text. The invention provides a way to improve memorization through review strategies, hinting strategies and by dynamically adapting to the user. It also provides a way to use mnemonics to improve memorization, retention and to reduce memory loss due to the stress. It further provides a way to use spaced repetition techniques with consecutive text in order to ensure continued retention of learned material. | 09-05-2013 |
20130230834 | METHOD FOR TREATING POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER - The subject matter disclosed in this specification pertains to a method for treating post-traumatic stress disorder. An individual is asked about a problem state and feedback is observed. When the individual is identified entering the problem state, the state is broken. The individual is requested to engage in a first visualization of an unrelated event while in a dissociated state, a second visualization of the traumatic event while in a dissociated state and third visualization of the traumatic event while in an associated state but wherein the event is played in reverse. | 09-05-2013 |
20130236865 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING HUMAN BEHAVIOR USING AN AUDIO RECORDING DURING SLEEP - The invention provides a method or system for modifying behavior in a human subject using an audio recording during sleep. The audio recording includes positive suggestions for achieving a desired result recorded over background music. Binaural beats are incorporated into the background music. The positive suggestions are directed to the subconscious mind and address a specific goal the human subject wishes to achieve or a specific problem that the human subject wishes to overcome. The audio is pre-recorded and designed to be listened to by the human subject on a daily basis for a pre-determined period of time. The method includes a Guide that provides important information, recommendations, and key language terms for the human subject and/or caregiver for best results. It also provides Evaluation Forms to measure and track the progress and results throughout the process. | 09-12-2013 |
20130252215 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VERIFYING ONSET OF DEMENTIA - Provided is a device which obtains information for verifying onset of dementia while suppressing individual differences between subjects. The device includes a stimulus provision unit | 09-26-2013 |
20130260348 | CONTEXTUAL AWARENESS USING RELATIVE POSITIONS OF MOBILE DEVICES - A server based contextual awareness method of communicating in a wireless network includes detecting a signal strength of one or more user equipments (UEs) relative to other user equipment within a same vicinity. The method also includes detecting a pattern of the user equipment(s) and the other user equipment based on the detected signal strength of the user equipment(s) relative to the other user equipment. The method also includes deriving a social context based on the detected pattern. The method further includes initiating an action in response to the derived social context. | 10-03-2013 |
20130280682 | System and Method For Gathering And Analyzing Biometric User Feedback For Use In Social Media And Advertising Applications - A system and method for measuring biologically and behaviorally based responses to social media, locations, or experiences and providing instant and continuous feedback in response thereto. The system and method of the invention is capable of monitoring stress levels and well-being and may be implemented using a cloud-based infrastructure for remote monitoring. | 10-24-2013 |
20130288212 | System and A Method for Analyzing Non-verbal Cues and Rating a Digital Content - A system and a method for capturing and analyzing the non-verbal and behavioral cues of the users in a network is provided. The sensors present in the client device capture the user behavioral and sensory cues and analysis is performed to derive analytics for the particular event it corresponds to. | 10-31-2013 |
20130302764 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE RECOVERY - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method for substance abuse recovery. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a system and method for substance abuse recovery in a central server is provided comprising: receiving a request for a recovery plan from at least a first user; providing a book associated with the recovery plan to at least the first user; administering an interactive session between at least the first user and at least a second user based on the recovery plan; and generating, at the central server, at least one record associated with at least the first user in a database in connection with the recovery plan. | 11-14-2013 |
20130302765 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING AND DEVELOPING THE MENTAL ACUITY AND BEHAVIOR OF A PERSON - Methods and systems for assessing and developing the mental acuity and behavior of a person are provided. A method of assessing mental acuity and character can include using a computer system to executing user interactive exercises involving the use of at least one of visual acuity skills, operational thinking skills and behavioral skills of the user. During execution of each user interactive exercise, the computer system can receive user inputs including body movement of a user and touch interaction between the user and a user interface in communication with the computer system. The computer system can measure and record performance data related to the timing and accuracy of the user inputs in each user interactive exercise. The computer system can processes the performance data to generate scores in assessment categories that provide measurements of at least one of the visual acuity skills, operational thinking skills and behavioral skills of the user. Computer systems and memory devices for implementing the disclosed methods are also disclosed. | 11-14-2013 |
20130302766 | Interactive, Interest Centric Communication Systems and Methods - According to disclosed embodiments, a method for providing an interest centric, interactive communications environment includes providing one or more electronic devices configured to communicate over a communications network. The method includes providing one or more servers configured to provide interactive data to the electronic devices over the communications network and to control the interactive data and to coordinate participant activities via the electronic devices over the communications network. The method includes authenticating one or more participants by the electronic devices. The method includes modifying the interactive data based on one or more modification criteria, wherein the interactive data comprises at least one of interest items, relationship and resource items and stuff. The method includes organizing the interactive data on a desktop of the electronic devices. | 11-14-2013 |
20130309641 | Systems and Methods for Assessing Behavioral Patterns and Promoting Behavioral Change by Comparing Gaming Performance to Aspirational Attributes - Systems and methods are provided for assessing behavioral patterns and promoting behavioral change by comparing the performance of a user within a videogame or simulation to aspirational attributes (e.g., attributes defining an aspirational avatar) selected by the user in advance of the game, and conveying the results of the comparison to the user with video, graphics, text, audio, other media, or a combination thereof. The assessment can include guidance or suggestions regarding the need for behavioral modification and/or an identification of the user's choices that caused the user to attain, or fall short of the user's predefined aspirations. | 11-21-2013 |
20130309642 | Method for Teaching Social Behavior - A method for teaching social behavior to students comprising the steps of identifying rules of conduct, establishing positive consequences for obeying the rules of conduct and establishing negative consequences for disobeying the rules of conduct, teaching the students the rules of conduct and the consequences for obeying and disobeying the rules of conduct, tracking and recording on a periodic basis the conduct of students in disobeying the rules of conduct, establishing a grading scale and assigning to the students a grade based on their conduct and the grading scale, monitoring over time the changes to the grade, conducting behavior class for the students, and re-evaluating the grading scale based on the grade made by the students over time. In addition, a computer-implemented method for tracking student behavior and for tracking student and teacher performance is provided. | 11-21-2013 |
20130316313 | Lifestyle Management System And Method - An improved method for providing lifestyle management services over a network includes the steps of: (a) utilizing a server on the network to provide these services, wherein the server includes a processor, software and memory, (b) configuring this software to: (i) register one to be a user of these services, (ii) utilize an interactive calendar, an interactive lifestyle log, a balance displacement factor (BDF) or metric, a stress indicator percentage (SIP) or metric and (iii) yield a visual representation of a plot versus time of the values of the temporally varying BDF and SIP so as to provide feedback that advises on how to modify one's daily activities so as to better manage one's lifestyle to cope with the demands and stresses of daily life while yielding greater success in achieving one's life goals. | 11-28-2013 |
20130316314 | Process for producing perfect-content-validity tests - This invention is a non-sampling process for producing tests with perfect content validity. The process begins with a complete listing of every nanoskill [the tiniest fragment of human behavior, experience, and knowledge] which exists in the entire body of subject matter to be tested. Next is to arrange these nanoskills in developmental sequence. Then, for each nanoskill, prepare a preliminary test item which requires the application of this nanoskill to arrive at a correct answer. Next is to check whether each preliminary test item requires the application of the nanoskill(s) demanded in the previous item. If yes, discard the previous item, move to next preliminary test item, and check for inclusion of nanoskill in the same manner. If no, keep both items, move to next item, and check for inclusion of nanoskill in the same manner. The remaining preliminary test items constitute the test items of the desired test. | 11-28-2013 |
20130330693 | Interactive Cognitive Recognition Sports Training System and Methods - According to methods for teaching high performance cognitive skills, a simulated sports action scenario is displayed on a screen to a user, and the user is queried to respond to the scenario. The user's response to the scenario is received. The user's response to the scenario is evaluated according to predetermine high performance cognitive skills criteria to determine a sports relevant score. The determined sports relevant score is then displayed to the user and a database is updated. | 12-12-2013 |
20130337420 | Recognition and Feedback of Facial and Vocal Emotions - An approach is provided for an information handling system that identifies emotions and notifies a user that may otherwise have difficulty identifying the emotions displayed by others. A set of real-time inputs, such as audio and video inputs, are received at one or more receivers. The inputs are received from a human subject who is interacting with a user of the information handling system with the information handling system being a portable system carried by the user. The received set of real-time inputs are compared to predefined sets of emotional characteristics in order to identify an emotion that is being displayed by the human subject. Feedback is provided to the user of the system regarding the identified emotion exhibited by the human subject. | 12-19-2013 |
20130337421 | Recognition and Feedback of Facial and Vocal Emotions - An approach is provided for an information handling system that identifies emotions and notifies a user that may otherwise have difficulty identifying the emotions displayed by others. A set of real-time inputs, such as audio and video inputs, are received at one or more receivers. The inputs are received from a human subject who is interacting with a user of the information handling system with the information handling system being a portable system carried by the user. The received set of real-time inputs are compared to predefined sets of emotional characteristics in order to identify an emotion that is being displayed by the human subject. Feedback is provided to the user of the system regarding the identified emotion exhibited by the human subject. | 12-19-2013 |
20130344463 | International Celeration Project - A computer program designed to teach: a type of data collection through charting; provide the medium which continual charting for various purposes can be collected and modified via internet or standalone on various operating system platforms and; provide for personalization of certain chart-specific functionality features and of non-chart functional features. The specific form of charting is known as Celeration charting—charting that relies on rate of responding and semi- and/or logarithmic scaling. The teaching aspect of this application incorporates various tools and tutorials to advance accurate data collection for Celeration charting. Internet use will afford a medium of remote data storage and ease of updating program software and/or communication with others utilizing these tools. Personalization tools within the program makes this a living technology that is equipped to match the needs and desires of individual users. | 12-26-2013 |
20130344464 | PERSONALITY PROFILING SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE IN ALL TYPES OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERACTIONS - Methods and systems for assessing an individual's character, temperament, speed, positive and negative behavior based on the individual's innate personality (nature) and impact of environment (nurture) are described. A predictable method of assessment is based on the individual's appearance (physical choices including hair, makeup, accessories, clothing), presentation (body stance, facial expressions, energy, attitude, carriage, pacing), and speaking (word usage, tone, inflection, speed and sound). The assessment also includes a psyche section which details the “why” behind the individual's behavior, the positive and negative traits, driving needs, typical career choices, relationship patterns and more. The psyche section may also include the mental status, internal dialogue (intra-communication), outward behavior and patterns of dialogue with others (inter-communication). The methods and systems include assessment on all levels of visual, auditory and sensing data to determine a Character Code. The Character Code may be an Activist, Actor, Artist, Cheer leader, Class President, Scholar or any combination of the Character Codes. | 12-26-2013 |
20130344465 | DATA-DRIVEN SLEEP COACHING SYSTEM - System and method for a user to monitor and/or modify his or her sleep. In one embodiment, the sleep coaching system comprises a sensor for sensing a physiological signal of a sleeping user such as an EEG, computer memory databases for storing user and sleep-related data and advice, and a processor that generates a set of advice to improve user sleep satisfaction based on the user and sleep-related data. The advice to improve user sleep satisfaction, which may be communicated to the user, may comprise a sleep coaching plan, which may include one or more sleep coaching workshops that the user may undertake. | 12-26-2013 |
20130344466 | AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR A DISABLED PERSON - An augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device for a disabled person, and more particularly, an AAC device for the disabled person who has some degree of cognitive skills using pictures to express his/her communication. The AAC device includes a main body having a board shape in which an indicator connector protrudes from a front center portion; a communication display board attached to a front surface of the main body and including a plurality of symbols attached in a radial shape; an indicator rotatably connected to the indicator connector to indicate the corresponding symbols according to a user indication; and a controller installed in a lower portion of the main body, receiving an input signal from the user, and controlling the operation of the indicator. | 12-26-2013 |
20140004489 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING EMOTION EXPRESSION SERVICE USING EMOTION EXPRESSION IDENTIFIER | 01-02-2014 |
20140004490 | System And Method Facilitating Selection of Techniques And Aids For Child Behavior Modification | 01-02-2014 |
20140004491 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONING ENHANCEMENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140004492 | System, Method, and Article to Prompt Behavior Change | 01-02-2014 |
20140017643 | SOFTWARE & CELLPHONE USE TO ANALYZE MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS - A software program using manually inputted data and/or laboratory data to predict and display the user's emotional and mental state. This provides a mobile laboratory for the public aiding medical and psychological diagnoses and treatments. Users can then manage their thoughts and display their emotional state currently being experienced. | 01-16-2014 |
20140017644 | SYSTEM UTILIZING PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA FOR HEALTH IMPROVEMENT - The present invention generally relates to the use of physiological monitoring to enable an individualized response, e.g. feedback, recommendations, rewards or guidance to be presented to the individual within the context of electronic media. Specifically, the response is preferably based upon measured physiological data obtained while the individual is not directly involved with the electronic media and is preferably delivered in the context of an electronic game or interactive social activity program. | 01-16-2014 |
20140017645 | Systems and Methods for Training Meta-Attention - A meta-attention trainer for enhancing the meta-attention of a user. The trainer includes a processor coupled to a display device. The display device presents the user with a cognitive task that includes a stimuli. The cognitive task specifies a desired response to the stimuli. The processor assesses attentional control of the user in relation to the cognitive task, and generates an instruction and/or a feedback, based on the attentional control assessment, to the user, thereby enabling the user to reflect on the meta-attention of the user. | 01-16-2014 |
20140017646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AND PROVIDING ANONYMOUS CHARACTER FEEDBACK - A system and method provides users a place to provide feedback to another person about how they rate the person on different character traits and or abstract ideas. Particular embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method over the internet for enticing people to answer a question about another person to provide anonymous feedback. The system and method provides anonymity such that persons providing feedback are more truthful because they don't feel pressure to answer a question the way they think the person (or other individual) receiving the results wants them to answer. | 01-16-2014 |
20140017647 | CALCULATING A BEHAVIORAL PATH BASED ON A STATISTICAL PROFILE - A system for directing behavior of a first patient of a plurality of patients towards a behavioral objective includes a patient behavioral path calculator, a patient goal calculator, and a patient monitoring processor. The system also includes an information communication processor and a statistical processor. The patient behavioral path calculator calculates a patient behavioral path based on a statistical profile. The patient goal calculator calculates patient goals along the patient behavioral path toward a behavioral objective. The statistical processor can modify the statistical profile based on a response to a targeted message sent by the information communication processor. | 01-16-2014 |
20140023998 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING CONTROL POINTS TO MANAGE A USER TO A DESIRED STATE - The system is an interactive control system that uses multiple control points to manage a user toward a desired state through coaching, feedback, and feed-forward mechanisms. They system uses push and pull from a user to dynamically determine which control points to utilize and emphasize to guide the user to a desired state. The system creates Topics that are generated out of Content Elements. These topics are referenced by Rules and are arranged in a queue so that a planned succession of Topics can be presented proactively to a user in a prioritized and logical manner to guide the user to a desired state. The Rules include Dynamic Rules that allow real time modification of the queue to present Topics relevant to user state and progress toward the desired state. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023999 | DETECTION AND FEEDBACK OF INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH EXECUTIVE FUNCTION - An example includes a neurosensing and feedback device to detect mental states and alert the wearer, such as in real-time. In an example, neural activity is detected by sensors that measure frequency, amplitude, synchrony, sequence and site of brain activity. These measurements can be compared to neural signatures and patterns shown to be correlated to neuropsychological conditions and disorders. When these measurements indicate an undesirable state the wearer is alerted via visual, audible or tactile means designed to be highly effective at alerting the wearer and allowing them to adjust their brain activity. Executive function, known to be crucial for school readiness, academic achievement and successful life outcomes, is the chief state to be detected, trained and supported. The device is designed to be used during primary activities, e.g. reading and listening, and to not require third party intervention during primary use. | 01-23-2014 |
20140024000 | MENTOR SERVICE TERMINAL, MENTOR SERVICE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE METHOD - A mentor service terminal including an input unit, a display unit, and a controller, a mentor service method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing the method are provided. Users can be allowed to give questions to themselves for their own life, and led to find answers for the questions and roots of their life. On the basis of theses, the users have chance to find solutions to live their successful and happy lives. | 01-23-2014 |
20140030683 | SENSORY INPUT DEVICES, AND SENSORY INPUT METHODS - A sensory input device comprising at least one contact structure, at least one image of a hand on a first surface of the contact structure, at least one image of a foot on a second surface of the contact structure, at least one representation of a hand perceptible on the first surface, and/or at least one representation of a foot perceptible on the second surface. A sensory input apparatus comprising a sensory input device attached to at least one support structure. A method comprising positioning a person a person who has been characterized as having compromised sensory functions on a swing that can swing to a location where the person's hands or feet can contact a sensory input device. | 01-30-2014 |
20140038145 | ADDICTION CESSATION DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD - The current invention discloses an addiction cessation device and related methods to assist a user to quit an addiction to a substance. To achieve this goal, the current invention exposes the user to negative signals whenever the urges to consume the substance arise. The addiction cessation device may be a flat surface having a back side and a front side, where the flat surface is folded so that the back side forms at least one cover page to conceal the front side, and where the front side comprises words and images that cause negative reactions to the addiction and the words and images on the front side can be revealed by unfolding the flat surface. The current invention helps the quitting efforts by revealing and displaying the images and words on the addiction cessation device to the user and providing information to associate the negative feelings created by the images or words with the addiction. By repeatedly revealing the images and words of the device when in urge of the addiction, the user may develop an association of negative reaction with the addictive substance. Additional mechanisms may involve releasing an odor that also creates negative reactions from the user. The current invention may be used to treat various kinds of addiction, such as smoking, alcohol abuse, and food addiction. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038146 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TEAMING UP VIA SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE FOR ACTIVITY COACHING - A method and system of teaming via a social network service for activity coaching include creating a stage model that comprises a first and second stages, wherein a value of a performing parameter for use in the first stage is less than a value of the performing parameter for use in the second stage; receiving initial activity data of users at social network service; determining users involved in the first stage according to initial activity data; teaming the users involved in the first stage; communicating to users via social network service the value of the performing parameter for use in the second stage; setting a team goal to achieve the value; waiting for feedback from the users; determining whether the team goal is achieved; moving the users in the same team to the second stage; and providing rewards to the users, if the determination is affirmative. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038147 | Electrode for Attention Training Techniques - An electrode includes a core of beryllium copper alloy and a safe metal coating. In some embodiments, the beryllium copper alloy comprises more than three percent beryllium, less than three percent other metals and a remaining percent copper. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a headband, and a first and second safe metal coated copper-beryllium alloy electrode. The headband is configured to fit snugly to a head of a subject in an orientation from behind a first ear, across a crown of the subject, to a position behind a second ear. The first electrode and second electrode are disposed in the headband to contact a head of the subject at a first position and a different second position, respectively, without gels. In various embodiments, the headband includes a chip to determine an analog signal and transmit data; and, a system includes the headband and a signal analyzing unit. | 02-06-2014 |
20140045156 | METHODS FOR MANAGING LIFESTYLE OF INDIVIDUALS - Disclosed are computer-implemented methods and systems for managing the lifestyle of individuals and generation of suggested actions to be taken by a user to improve wellness depending on current user condition. The methods and systems facilitate acquiring multiple biometric and psychophysical parameters of the user and calculating a single wellness index. The wellness index depends on goals, objectives, results, social feedback, rewards, and so forth. The methods and systems may further generate at least one proposed action, wherein the action is to improve the wellness index. | 02-13-2014 |
20140045157 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFY, TREATMENT AND WEANING FROM INTERNET AND COMPUTER ADDICTION - Self controlled method and system for identified, treatment and weaning from computer and Internet addiction. On one embodiment of the invention, the system analyzed user activity on the computer and while surfing the Internet, and presents results of his addictive level visually on user's interface. Supporting the whole information of addictive level to the user, give him the power to fight against the phenomena and prevent to increase it. | 02-13-2014 |
20140045158 | System And Method For Associating Auditory Stimuli With Visual Depictions - A system and method for associating auditory stimuli with visual depictions. The system includes a display, computing environment, and means to audibly play music. The system and method enable a user to learn to associate selected pieces of music with corresponding facial expressions, practice the learned associations, and play chosen pieces of music based upon the learned associations. | 02-13-2014 |
20140051043 | Method for behavioral modification - A method of modifying a person's behavior to cease that person's indulgence in undesirable behavior. Examples of such undesirable behavior would be smoking, drinking alcohol, and over-eating. The method involves modifying one's behavior by utilizing incentives to encourage certain behavior and disincentives to discourage certain behavior. As the person wishing to modify their behavior will be under the care of a physician, such a person is known as a “patient” under this method. One variation of the method requires that the patient place a predetermined amount of money into an escrow or lockbox account. A physician monitors the patient to determine if the patient is indulging in the undesirable behavior. If the patient is successful in avoiding such behavior, the patient is rewarded monetarily. If the patient is unsuccessful, the patient loses the money initially invested. | 02-20-2014 |
20140051044 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO GATHER AND ANALYZE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC DATA - Example methods are disclosed herein that include obtaining electroencephalographic (EEG) data from a subject via a device comprising two or more independently adjustable bands, each of the bands having a plurality of electrodes to detect the electroencephalographic data from a brain of the subject, each band selectively rotatable relative to an adjacent band and each band selectively compressible to increase a force of the electrodes against a head of the subject. The example method also includes converting the EEG data into digital EEG signals and conditioning the digital EEG signals. In addition, the example method includes analyzing the digital EEG signals using one or more analysis protocols to determine a mental characteristic of the subject and transmitting the mental characteristic to an output device. | 02-20-2014 |
20140051046 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT USING A COMPUTING DEVICE - A system and method for facilitating personal development using a computing device. The method includes generating a machine-readable foundation profile by performing sub-steps including querying a user through a user interface module and providing a user access to an education module and a discovery module. The sub-steps include storing answers to queries in association with a user. The method also includes guiding a user through a process of issue resolution by querying a user in regards to a specific situation and teaching a user in regards to taking responsibility for their feelings. The sub-steps include teaching a user about having an intent to learn and managing an inner guidance dialogue within the user. The method further includes facilitating a user taking action by displaying an intended action from the action profile, and teaching the user how to productively take action and facilitating self-evaluation by the user. | 02-20-2014 |
20140057232 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MODULATING CONSOLIDATION OF MEMORY DURING SLEEP - Devices, systems and methods to modify memory and/or cognitive function by delivering a sensory stimulus paired with learned material at opportune physiological periods during sleep. Described herein are systems, methods and devices to enhance a user's cognitive function in memorization and learning. A machine (e.g., a system or device) may be used to identify opportune periods of the sleep cycle and to deliver a stimulus during specific phases of the sleep cycle to facilitate or interrupt memory consolidation. The machine may record ambient sensory inputs during awake acquisition or reinforcement/relearning and replay all or an extracted form of the ambient sensory stimuli during a specified portion of the user's sleep. A stimulus may be delivered to a user to affect brain activity during sleep to modulate the phase of a user's sleep, quality of sleep, and/or quality or intensity of brain rhythms during a particular phase of sleep. | 02-27-2014 |
20140065585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING AND IMPROVING A USERS LIFE SKILLS AND SELF-EFFICACY FOR LIFE STAGE READINESS - A computer-implemented mental and emotional life efficacy development system and method are disclosed which assist lay individuals to measure and improve their mental health and emotional capabilities and life skill deficits to increase the individual's ability to achieve life efficacy. A scoring subsystem measures competencies or deficits in a breadth of critical life skills. The system provides feedback concerning personality traits and mental and emotional deficits and compares the user's scores to the scores of those who are successfully navigating a particular life step. This pinpoints deficits for which the user can receive training and treatment tailored to that user's personality and individual difficulties. Through the collection and aggregating of such symptoms, a preliminary diagnosis is made of the user's mental health and life skills. This diagnosis is subsequently refined before it is used to offer emotion and/or mental health care treatment and life skills training for life efficacy competency. | 03-06-2014 |
20140080106 | Method and System for Improving Personal Productivity in Home Environments - Method and system for improving personal productivity in home environments may store state information associated with an environment and one or more users in a knowledge base, detected activity of a user, infer location of the user based on the detected activity, and suggest one or more tasks to be performed based on the inferred user location. | 03-20-2014 |
20140087339 | TOILET TARGET AND REWARD APPARATUS - A toilet training aide formed of a flushable, biodegradable material comprising a multi-layer pocket with a latent image revealed by locating the toilet training aide under a stream of liquid or urine, the toilet training aide further including a tab portion used to maintain the toilet training aide in a fixed position in the toilet bowl. | 03-27-2014 |
20140093848 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE ATTENTIONAL FOCUS OF INDIVIDUALS WITHIN A GROUP - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to effectively determine the attentional focus of each of a plurality of individuals, such as the members of a group. In the context of a method, information is received identifying an attentional focus of each of a plurality of individuals. The method also includes determining, with a processor, a relationship between a threshold and a number of individuals with an attentional focus having a predefined association with a location. Further, the method includes causing an action to be performed based upon the relationship. | 04-03-2014 |
20140093849 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LEARNING EMOTION OF ROBOT - An apparatus for the learning emotion of a robot includes an internal state calculation unit for detecting external environment information and calculating an internal state vector value for one point of an internal state coordinate system; an emotion decision processing unit for generating an emotion value within each emotion value group, indicated by the coordinates of the internal state input value of the robot on the coordinate system, as an emotion of the robot; a behavior generation unit for deciding the behavior of the robot based on the decided motion value and making an emotional expression; and an emotion learning unit for generating feedback information on the emotion value, corresponding to one point of the coordinate system, based on the decided emotion value and information on the type of emotion from a user input unit and changing an emotion probability distribution of the coordinate system using the feedback information. | 04-03-2014 |
20140099610 | VISUALIZING THE MOOD OF A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS - Techniques are described for visualizing the mood of a group of individuals. In one example, a graphical display is divided into regions representing different emotions. Input indicative of an emotion is received from individuals located in an area of interest. As the input is received, a set of indicators is output in each of the regions of the graphical display. Each indicator represents a different one of the individuals who is experiencing the emotion associated with the region in which the indicator is displayed and is displayed with a color assigned to the emotion. The indicators are animated to move over time toward a center of the graphical display and are removed upon reaching the center of the graphical display. In this way, the graphical display depicts a current mood for the group and indicates a rate of change of each of the different emotions. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099611 | Attention Enhancing Writing Instrument Accessory and Method of Use - A writing instrument accessory for use with a writing instrument includes a sleeve having a tubular configuration defining upper and lower ends, the sleeve being configured to receive the writing instrument. The accessory includes an elastic member coupled at one end to the sleeve and extending away from the sleeve to another end opposite the sleeve, the elastic member having a stretchable and resilient configuration. A hook member is coupled to the elastic member at the end opposite the sleeve, the hook member having a configuration complementary to a shape of a person's finger so as to be selectively coupled thereto. In operation, the elastic member is held at length by a user's non-writing hand finger from the writing instrument while a writing task is undertaken by the user. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099612 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AFFIRMATION CREATION AND DELIVERY - A device for recording and playing back an affirmation, comprising a recording unit configured to record the affirmation; a setup engine configured to associate at least on of the following with the recorded affirmation: volume level, imagery that displays on a viewing medium during affirmation playback, sub-sonic sound types, subconscious sound types, standard audio types, pattern types, duration, alarm sounds, playback sequences, segmented playback, wake-up times or wake-up alarms, vibration triggering, vibration types, signal processing, data reporting, pitch, tone, frequency and bass settings; a storage medium configured to store the affirmation as prepared by the setup engine; and a playback unit configured to play the affirmation back in accordance with at least one of the following payback modes: meditation mode and sleep mode. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099613 | Methods circuits, devices and systems for personality interpretation and expression - The present invention includes methods circuits, devices and systems for personality interpretation and expression. A personality interpretation and expression system may include central processing logic in addition to a personality engine. The central processing logic may be adapted to generate a data set corresponding to collected user and/or environment information. The personality engine may be adapted to evaluate a data set received from the central processing logic and generate at least one interaction instruction corresponding to the data set. Generating an interaction instruction is at least partially based on a comparison between the data set and a data set in a personality database functionally associated with or otherwise integral to the personality engine. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099614 | METHOD FOR DELIVERING BEHAVIOR CHANGE DIRECTIVES TO A USER - One variation of a method for prompting behavior change includes: receiving a first set of user activity data collected on a wearable device and on a mobile computing device during a first time period; identifying a habit within the first time period based on the first set of user activity data; assigning a classification to the habit; receiving a second set of user activity data collected on the wearable device during a second time period; based on the second set of user activity data, determining a deviation from the habit during the second time period; and generating a behavior change prompt to modify the habit based on the classification of the habit and the deviation from the habit that exceeds a threshold deviation. | 04-10-2014 |
20140106320 | SELF-EXPLORATION THERAPEUTIC ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE - A self-exploration assembly includes a base and a plurality of layers each shaped so that when the plurality of layers are coupled to the base in a first orientation, the plurality of layers together resemble a bulbous shape, and, when the plurality of layers are coupled to the base in a second orientation, the plurality of petals resemble a flower shape. | 04-17-2014 |
20140120506 | SCENT MEMORY STRIP - A scent memory strip, which may be called a “Smemory Strip”, includes a malleable and rigid strip of material; a first scent concentrated portion at a first end of the strip; a second scent concentrated portion at a second end of the strip; wherein the strip is adapted to conform to and grip a user's columella so that the strip is retained to the columella; and the strip is adapted to provide a particular scent to the user so that the scent is first associated with a memory when the strip is first used and the scent will be second associated with the same memory at a later time. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120507 | Psyche Trainer and Method of Use - A psyche trainer has at least one spherical body positioned within a container. The container is attached to a cord, such that the psyche trainer can be worn on a desired appendage of a user. A goal is determined by the user and associated with the psyche trainer. As the user moves, the at least one spherical body traverses along the interior of the container, creating vibrations. The vibrations are registered in the user's brain and act as reminder of the goal, assisting the user in becoming self aware of their goal. The psyche trainer can also be designed to create an audible noise to further assist in becoming self aware of one's goal. As an alternative to being worn by the user, the container may be attached to a support base, such that the psyche trainer may be attached to a variety of objects. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120508 | METHOD FOR EFFECTING CHANGES IN AN INDIVIDUAL'S BEHAVIOR OR MENTAL STATE - A method for effecting changes in a subject's behavior or mental state comprising wherein background and preparation work is performed on the subject by engaging the subject in conversation and asking probing questions, getting the subject to the point where the subject feels his or her emotions; and, having the subject feel the emotion the way it wants to be felt. | 05-01-2014 |
20140127656 | System and Method for Assessing a User's Engagement with Digital Resources - An engagement index reflects a user's level of engagement with a digital resource. Actions of the user, such as the amount of time spent on a page, the number of pages accessed, the amount of time spent in a session, and the number and type of annotations made may be used as factors in the determination of the engagement index. Data values corresponding to one or more of the factors are received and are validated to eliminate any extreme values and to make the values comparable with one another. Different validation methods may be used for different factors. Once the data values are validated, weighting coefficients are applied to the validated values. The system then determines the engagement index by summing the weighted values. Once calculated, the engagement index may be aggregated with other engagement indexes or compared to engagement indexes for other users. | 05-08-2014 |
20140134581 | ASSESSMENT FOR IDENTIFYING DERAILERS OF INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR - An assessment is provided to identify an individual's derailers of interpersonal behavior and provide a fine-grained analysis of the identified derailers. The assessment provides a score for a number of potentially negative aspects, i.e., derailers, where each aspect is represented as a scale. A subscale structure provides additional insights about specific facets of potentially negative behavior related to each aspect. The assessment provides scores for the subscale facets to illustrate the facets most contributing to the respective potentially negative aspect of interpersonal behavior. An elevated subscale score serves as an indication that the individual is at risk for the respective facet. | 05-15-2014 |
20140134582 | ACTION MOTIVATION DEVICE, ACTION MOTIVATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An activity information obtainer ( | 05-15-2014 |
20140141395 | INTERVENTIVE-DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - Apparatus for improving health of a user is provided, including a first sensor, adapted to measure a first physiological variable, which is indicative of a voluntary action of the user. A second sensor is adapted to measure a second physiological variable, which is substantially governed by an autonomic nervous system of the user. Circuitry is adapted to receive respective first and second sensor signals from the first and second sensors, and, responsive thereto, to generate an output signal which directs the user to modify a parameter of the voluntary action. | 05-22-2014 |
20140154649 | ASSOCIATING USER EMOTION WITH ELECTRONIC MEDIA - Systems, methods, devices, and apparatuses for associating a user emotion with electronic media are described. Contact between a user of a device and a biopotential electrode array that is integrated with the device is detected. Electrodermal data of the user is acquired via the biopotential electrode array. The user emotion is derived based at least in part on the acquired electrodermal data. The user emotion is then associated with the electronic media. | 06-05-2014 |
20140154650 | Application of smooth pursuit cognitive testing paradigms to clinical drug development - The invention describes the process of applying smooth pursuit eye movement tests toward the detection of the efficacy and, or, toxicity of neuro-pharmaceutical compounds throughout the clinical drug development process. Several different paradigms in smooth pursuit tracking tests and several analysis methods and metrics may be used. Application of smooth pursuit tracking tests allows for a quantifiable measurement of a subject's cognitive behavior and function. This process provides a cost effective and objective test of efficacy of neuro-pharmaceutical drugs and increase the validity of the clinical drug development process. | 06-05-2014 |
20140154651 | Quantifying peak cognitive performance using graduated difficulty - A method to determine the subject's peak cognitive performance using smooth pursuit tracking tests. The method utilizes instantaneous performance feedback to accurately quantify the subject's peak cognitive performance by changing the difficulty of the test in response to the subject's performance. | 06-05-2014 |
20140154652 | Method and Apparatus for Personal Awareness and Growth - An presentation generator is disclosed for generating presentations for interacting with a user on a personal topic of, e.g., the user's selection, wherein the presentations assist the user in obtaining a greater awareness of his/her motivations and/or behaviors relating to the topic. In one embodiment, the presentation generator generates and presents to the user textual observations, questions, and/or statements for the user's consideration. Such presentations use and/or are consistent with textual descriptions obtained from: (a) the results of one or more personality/motivation test results, and (b) user inputs, e.g., regarding the selected topic together with his/her confidence in the validity of such inputs. The invention organizes the textual descriptions so that outputs to the user can be generated from various personality/motivational perspectives thereby assisting the user in viewing the topic of discussion from different perspectives and thereby becoming more aware of his/her biases, motivations, and/or concerns relating to the topic. | 06-05-2014 |
20140154653 | Promoting and Publicizing that Rewarding Increased Compliance Improves Blood Glucose Control and Outcomes - Improved outcomes of patients resulting from: continuous monitoring of blood glucose level, other metabolites, food consumption, and preferably, exertion level; and resulting from providing personalized education and other advice on insulin and drug administration, food consumption and timing, and exercise type and intensity, as well as reward test strips which entitle the patient to a discount, rebate or other benefit, are publicized to increase patient compliance with the recommended diet, exercise, and/or testing, drug administration, and improve patient clinical outcomes; or are publicized to recruit new patients into the system, and thereby improve the outcomes and overall health of an increasing proportion of the diabetic patient population. The improved blood glucose level control or other measurable parameters that follow from increased patient compliance and the use of reward test strips can also be publicized to improve patient compliance or recruit more patient into the system. | 06-05-2014 |
20140162225 | METHOD OF ASSESSING PEOPLE'S SELF-PRESENTATION AND ACTIONS TO EVALUATE PERSONALITY TYPE, BEHAVIORAL TENDENCIES, CREDIBILITY, MOTIVATIONS AND OTHER INSIGHTS THROUGH FACIAL MUSCLE ACTIVITY AND EXPRESSIONS - A method of assessing an individual through facial muscle activity and expressions includes receiving a visual recording stored on a computer-readable medium of an individual's non-verbal responses to a stimulus, the non-verbal response comprising facial expressions of the individual. The recording is accessed to automatically detect and record expressional repositioning of each of a plurality of selected facial features by conducting a computerized comparison of the facial position of each selected facial feature through sequential facial images. The contemporaneously detected and recorded expressional repositionings are automatically coded to an action unit, a combination of action units, and/or at least one emotion. The action unit, combination of action units, and/or at least one emotion are analyzed to assess one or more characteristics of the individual to develop a profile of the individual's personality in relation to the objective for which the individual is being assessed. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162226 | Potty Training Educational System - Systems and methods for use of a potty training system. The potty training system includes a compressible doll and a model toilet. The doll is shaped like an animal, a fictional creature or a human. The doll has an internal storage compartment for holding fluids and an aperture creating a pathway between the exterior environment and the internal storage compartment. Fluids may be pulled into the internal storage compartment, expelled by compressing the doll, and released into the model toilet. The model toilet may have several components of a functioning toilet. Additionally the model toilet may have a drain for releasing the fluids collected and suction cups for attaching the model toilet to a surface. Used in this manner, the potty training system may be used by a young child in the bathtub to create a positive association between urination and a toilet. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162227 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LUDOPATIA - A method is described for preventing the development of ludopatia in a person, or gambler, who interacts with an on-line or video lottery type game during one or more gaming sessions. The method comprises identifying the behaviour of a gambler and assigning to this behaviour a value indicating the predisposition of the person to develop ludopatia. If the value thus defined exceeds a certain threshold, determined according to a behaviour reference model, the necessary measures are adopted to induce the person to modify his/her behaviour. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162228 | PEERED PROCTORING - Systems and methods described herein utilize a distributed server network to allow for the real-time distribution of copies of a data stream uploaded from a computing device. The uploaded data stream corresponds to an environment surrounding a user (exam taker) of the computing device during execution of a testing routine for an examination. Providing copies of the data stream in real-time allows proctors as well as other test assessment authorities to ‘peek in’ on the exam taker's environment during the exam. As a result, the environment surrounding the exam taker can be monitored in real-time to determine whether any visual or audio activity in the environment constitutes activity not in accordance with the exam protocol. Following an affirmative determination that the exam taker violated an exam taking protocol, a proctor or other test assessment authority can then make a final or early decision regarding disciplinary action. | 06-12-2014 |
20140170619 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING ARTIFICIAL FEELINGS - An apparatus and a method for creating combined artificial feelings to which different basic feelings like a human being's combined feeling are reflected. The apparatus for creating an artificial feeling comprises a feeling value group creation part which is configured to create a feeling value group having a feeling value which gradually decreased as it gets farther from a basic feeling assigned to a machine apparatus on an internal state coordinate system of a machine apparatus; and a feeling creation part which is configured to create, as a feeling of a machine apparatus, a group of a feeling value of each feeling value group that a coordinate of an internal state input value of the machine apparatus indicates on the internal state coordinate system. | 06-19-2014 |
20140193787 | READING INCENTIVE SYSTEM - Methods, systems and computer readable media for providing a reading incentive system to encourage reading in children and/or adults are described. | 07-10-2014 |
20140199670 | Multimodal cognitive performance benchmarking and Testing - Multimodal cognitive performance testing identifies a benchmark test administered at the beginning and the end of a battery of tests in which cognitive resource changes are detected and are used to correct additional tests sandwiched between the benchmark tests. A test sequence methodology is described for deriving a minimum number of the additional tests and for ordering the additional tests based on multimodal test variables and correlation of a test with a predetermined cognitive function. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199671 | Classroom Management and Educational System and Method - A classroom management and educational system and method, including accessing a database including a plurality of student behavior accounts, authenticating an authorized administrative user, accepting one or more modifications by the authorized administrative user to a selected student behavior account selected from the plurality of student behavior accounts, authenticating an authorized student user, accepting one or more operations by the authorized student user, modifying a student behavior account associated with the authorized student user in the database based on the one or more operations, and generating a plurality of conduct reports based on a plurality of purchased conduct grades. The one or modifications are selected from crediting the selected student behavior account and billing the selected student behavior account. The one or more operations are selected from paying a bill with credits and purchasing a conduct grade with credits. | 07-17-2014 |
20140205977 | VISUALIZING THE MOOD OF A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS - Techniques are described for visualizing the mood of a group of individuals. In one example, a graphical display is divided into regions representing different emotions. Input indicative of an emotion is received from individuals located in an area of interest. As the input is received, a set of indicators is output in each of the regions of the graphical display. Each indicator represents a different one of the individuals who is experiencing the emotion associated with the region in which the indicator is displayed and is displayed with a color assigned to the emotion. The indicators are animated to move over time toward a center of the graphical display and are removed upon reaching the center of the graphical display. In this way, the graphical display depicts a current mood for the group and indicates a rate of change of each of the different emotions. | 07-24-2014 |
20140205978 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SAFELY GUIDING INTERVENTIONS IN PROCEDURES THE SUBSTRATE OF WHICH IS THE NEURONAL PLASTICITY - The method comprises generating a database with information regarding users in relation to interventions to be performed and to the user responses to the performance thereof, and analyzing it to generate candidate predictions from which final or optimum predictions are determined, said generation of candidate predictions and said subsequent determination of final predictions been carried out by means of corresponding steps of classification at different levels based on heuristic rules. | 07-24-2014 |
20140212853 | MULTI-MODAL MODELING OF TEMPORAL INTERACTION SEQUENCES - A multi-modal interaction modeling system can model a number of different aspects of a human interaction across one or more temporal interaction sequences. Some versions of the system can generate assessments of the nature or quality of the interaction or portions thereof, which can be used to, among other things, provide assistance to one or more of the participants in the interaction. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212854 | MULTI-MODAL MODELING OF TEMPORAL INTERACTION SEQUENCES - A multi-modal interaction modeling system can model a number of different aspects of a human interaction across one or more temporal interaction sequences. Some versions of the system can generate assessments of the nature or quality of the interaction or portions thereof, which can be used to, among other things, provide assistance to one or more of the participants in the interaction. | 07-31-2014 |
20140220523 | METHODS OF ANALYZING AN INDIVIDUAL'S PERSONALITY - Methods of analyzing the personality of an individual are disclosed and include at least one of assessing the relationship of the individual's face to four shapes, determining which one of four shades of red harmonizes best with the individual's face, determining which set of colored patterns harmonizes best with the individual's face, determining which metal palette harmonizes best with the individual's face, determining which red shape harmonizes best with the individual's face, and determining which color palette harmonizes best with the individual's face, and correlating at least one of the selected shape, shade of red, set of colored patterns, metal palette, red shape, and color palette with a mind-body temperament, and identifying the primary mind-body temperament of the individual. | 08-07-2014 |
20140220524 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING BEHAVIOR OF STUDENTS IN FIELD TRIPS - Provided is a system and method for monitoring a student behavior in a field trip. The system may include: a plurality of member terminals held respectively by a plurality of members conducting a group activity and provided with a plurality of sensors, an imaging device, and a data storage device to collect and store behavior information of the members to match time information, the behavior information including location information, orientation information, view information, and motion information; at least one leader terminal held by a leader and configured to receive and store the behavior information of the members collected by the plurality of member terminals; and an analysis terminal configured to receive the behavior information from the at least one leader terminal and the plurality of member terminals. | 08-07-2014 |
20140220525 | MANAGING EDUCATIONAL CONTENT BASED ON DETECTED STRESS STATE AND AN INDIVIDUALS PREDICTED TYPE - The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering content to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a game, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one player of the game, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and affecting the game play based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an interactive space, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in the space, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the space based on the analysis. | 08-07-2014 |
20140234814 | INSTRUCTION PRODUCTION - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with instruction production are described. In one example, a system can comprise a difference component that makes an identification of a difference between an actual action of a user and a standard action for the user. The system also can comprise an instruction component that produces an instruction to instruct the user to change from the action of the user to the standard action for the user, where production of the instruction is based, at least in part, on the difference. The system further can comprise a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to retain the instruction. Additionally, the system can comprise an output component configured to cause disclosure of the instruction. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234815 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EMOTION INTERACTION BASED ON BIOLOGICAL SIGNALS - An emotion signal detecting apparatus is provided, and the emotion signal detecting apparatus comprises a sensor unit configured to detect a biological signal, which occurs due to a change in an emotional state of a user, and an environmental signal; and a control unit configured to generate emotion information based on the biological signal and the environmental signal and to transmit the generated emotion information to an emotion signal detecting apparatus or emotion service providing apparatus of a different user. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234816 | Network-Based System for Social Emotional Learning - A network-based education system for providing social emotional education includes a computer storage that can store a plurality of competencies for social emotional learning and education scenarios for the plurality of competencies, and servers that can enable one of the education scenarios to be presented on a user device. The servers can receive an input from a child user in response to the presentation of the one of the education scenarios. The computer storage can store a child user's history in viewing the education scenarios, input from the child user during the presentation of the education scenarios, and an assessment of the child user's competencies in social emotional skill. An intelligence module can assess the child user's competencies in social emotional skills based in part on the input from the child user during the presentation of the education scenarios. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234817 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HELPING STUDENTS ACHIEVE ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND PERSIST THROUGH COLLEGE - Described herein are systems and methods for causing behavior modification of a large population of students by providing electronic messages, referred to as nudges, to the students. A program of nudges is assigned to each student based on collected background information and feedback from the students and/or third parties. A nudge contains a personalized message that is designed to mitigate risk factors and increase academic performance. Feedback from students and third parties is used to proactively modify a program of nudges that are targeted to a student's present needs. The systems and methods described herein may benefit students and educational institutions alike by improving academic outcomes such as GPA and graduation rates, increasing retention rates, improving study habits and mindsets including persistence by transmitting personalized messages to students that nudge their behavior in a positive manner. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234818 | AUTOMATED PROTOCOL FOR DETERMINING PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITY - A system for determining a psychiatric status of a person is described, the system including an activity module that outputs first data indicative of the person's activities of daily living, a social module that outputs second data indicative of the person's social functioning in a work-like setting, a persistence module that outputs third data indicative of the person's concentration persistence, a stress module that outputs fourth data indicative of the person's ability to tolerate stress, and a processing module that outputs fifth data indicative of a psychiatric disability determination based on outputs from said activity module, said social module, said persistence module, and said stress module. In certain embodiments, at least one of the activity module, the social module, the persistence module, and the stress module comprises computer executable instructions. The system may also feature a user interface configured to display the psychiatric disability determination. | 08-21-2014 |
20140242559 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EEG-BASED TASK MANAGEMENT - A method and system are disclosed for determining a task for a subject, which includes sensing electrical activity along a scalp of a subject; characterizing a mental state of the subject based on the electrical activity of the subject; comparing the mental state of the subject with a pre-defined task list to select a task for the subject based on the mental state of the subject; and assigning the task to the subject based on the comparison of the mental state of the subject and the pre-defined task list. | 08-28-2014 |
20140242560 | FACIAL EXPRESSION TRAINING USING FEEDBACK FROM AUTOMATIC FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION - A machine learning classifier is trained to compute a quality measure of a facial expression with respect to a predetermined emotion, affective state, or situation. The expression may be of a person or an animated character. The quality measure may be provided to a person. The quality measure may also used to tune the appearance parameters of the animated character, including texture parameters. People may be trained to improve their expressiveness based on the feedback of the quality measure provided by the machine learning classifier, for example, to improve the quality of customer interactions, and to mitigate the symptoms of various affective and neurological disorders. The classifier may be built into a variety of mobile devices, including wearable devices such as Google Glass and smart watches. | 08-28-2014 |
20140255888 | Optical neuroinformatics - A method is provided for improving cognitive performance assessment in a smooth pursuit cognitive performance test by using measurement metrics including a lead/lag metric, a radial inbounding metric, a path dependent velocity metric, a path drift metric, a velocity variability metric, or a variance statistics metric. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255889 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A COMPREHENSIVE INTEGRATED EDUCATION SYSTEM - A gateway system for providing a comprehensive integrated education system. It is implemented through a cloud-computing platform, linking together learning and assessment systems, which provide learning, education, and evaluation services for a user, and reward systems, which provide rewards for a user for successfully completing learning and education processes, which are connected to the cloud-computing platform. In some embodiments, a user is a student, and a desired reward is access to certain features on the student's electronic computing device. The gateway system ensures that the student correctly answers certain test questions which have been appropriately chosen before unlocking those features. | 09-11-2014 |
20140272839 | BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for altering behavior by providing a first stimulus to a subject. The first stimulus is an interactive activity requiring that the subject perform one or more actions to interact with one or more icons on one or more computing devices. The first stimulus is selected to correspond to a current physiological or neurocognitive state for the subject. The performance of the subject is monitored in response to the first stimulus. A second stimulus is provided to the subject in response to determining that the subject's performance in response to the first stimulus satisfies a predetermined condition. The second stimulus is an interactive activity requiring that the subject perform one or more actions to interact with one or more icons on the one or more computing devices. The second stimulus is selected to correspond to a new physiological or neurocognitive state for the subject. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272840 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING WORKING MEMORY - Apparatus and methods for enhancing a working memory of a human is provided. A computing system having a processor executing instructions out of a memory device presents a plurality of selectable working memory domains corresponding to cognitive functions of a human brain, where each working memory domain is associated with a corresponding training game that is configured to enhance a selected working memory domain. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272841 | METHODS FOR RESOLVING AN ISSUE AND BLINDLY RESOLVING AN ISSUE - A method for resolving an issue and a method for blindly resolving an issue are provided. A method for resolving an issue, comprising: (a) providing a group, wherein the group includes at least three Mentors and a Focus; (b) evaluating the Focus by the at least three Mentors; (c) identifying an inconsistent internal existence of the Focus by the at least three Mentors; (d) comparing the inconsistent internal existence to a matrix of consistent internal existence by the at least three Mentors; (e) providing feedback to the Focus from the Mentors; and (f) incorporating the feedback by the Focus to create a modified internal existence of the Focus is provided. A method for blindly resolving an issue is also provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272842 | ASSESSING COGNITIVE ABILITY - The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes receiving first cognitive ability levels for first persons. The first cognitive ability levels represent assessments of the first persons within a model of cognitive abilities. The method further includes receiving first user generated online data of the first persons. The method further includes extracting first values for one or more types of features from the first user generated online data. The method further includes comparing, by a processing device, the extracted first values to the received first cognitive ability levels to identify relationships between the types of features and the received first cognitive ability levels. The method further includes storing the relationships between the types of features and the received first cognitive ability levels in a storage device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272843 | COGNITIVE EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM WITH CONTENT ACQUISITION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A system and method of operation of a cognitive evaluation and development system includes: a cognitive puzzle having a video tile; a media clip linked to the video tile; a cognitive task based on the media clip; a user generated content based on the cognitive task; and a cognitive response message based on the user generated content for displaying on the device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272844 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE LIKELIHOOD TO INDUCE BEHAVIOR CHANGE IN A LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A method and corresponding system for increasing the likelihood of inducing behavior change in a lifestyle management program for a user includes sensing at least one behavior parameter of a user; identifying at least one intention-behavior gap based on the sensing of the behavior parameter; via application of a genetic algorithm generating a quantified profile of the intention-behavior gap; via a user interface, suggesting at least one action to accept or reject; and varying the quantified profile based on the action accepted or rejected by the user. The user interface may include a smart phone that includes at least one sensor for sensing location and activity of a user of the user interface, or a dedicated device that communicates with a sensor for sensing a behavior parameter, or the sensor is disposed on the body of the user or on a garment worn by the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272845 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE LIKELIHOOD TO INDUCE BEHAVIOR CHANGE IN A LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A method and corresponding system for increasing the likelihood of inducing behavior change in a lifestyle management program for a user includes sensing at least one behavior parameter of a user; identifying at least one intention-behavior gap based on the sensing of the behavior parameter; via application of a genetic algorithm generating a quantified profile of the intention-behavior gap; via a user interface, suggesting at least one action to accept or reject; and varying the quantified profile based on the action accepted or rejected by the user. The user interface may include a smart phone that includes at least one sensor for sensing location and activity of a user of the user interface, or a dedicated device that communicates with a sensor for sensing a behavior parameter, or the sensor is disposed on the body of the user or on a garment worn by the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272846 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALTERING AN INDIVIDUAL'S BEHAVIOR - Systems and methods for altering participants' behaviors associated with a health care system are provided. In one example, a method of altering a behavior of a participant associated with a health care system includes assessing activities of the participant over a network via at least one electronic device, determining a behavior of the participant based on the activities of the participant, determining a motivation level of the participant, the motivation level is associated with an extent to which the participant is willing to change the behavior, categorizing the participant into a first category of a plurality of categories based on the behavior and the motivation level of the participant, and communicating with the participant based on the category in which the participant is categorized over a network via at least one electronic device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272847 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED REWARD SYSTEM FOR EDUCATION RELATED APPLICATIONS - Computer implemented systems, methods and computer program products for assessing and designing customized reward-based learning sessions. These technologies involve determining factors for a student's peak academic performance, such as: 1) their preferred type of reward trigger; 2) their preferred timing of the learning objective relative to the reward; and, 3) the nature of the reward (time to use an electronic device, cash, store credit). The reward trigger is the type of event that most motivates a student to learn, such as achieving an academic milestone, demonstrating effort and improvement in lessons, and random rewards for participating in educational sessions. The timing of the learning objective relative to the reward may be measured as the time at which the user initiates operation of an electronic device, the time at which the user engages in a learning or testing exercise, or the time at which the user receives the reward. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272848 | Method and Apparatus for Teaching Utilizing Moving Walkways - A room or area designed to facilitate a plurality of users moving while they learn, work, or participate in a simulation. sensor relays aid this process by sending and receiving user information to a central hub, a movement device, one another or any combination of the three, in order to safely benefit the users coordination, exercise, or concentration while multitasking, according to their own user defined set points, a set of default set points, or set points determined by an external observer. This room or area may be further enhanced in applications where a treadmill or moving walkway is present. | 09-18-2014 |
20140287387 | EMOTION RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING, MONITORING, PREDICTING AND BROADCASTING A USER'S EMOTIVE STATE - Systems and methods are provided for assessing, monitoring and predicting a person's emotive state based on the person's day-to-day social and physical activity, including biometric, geospatial and other data, and storing the emotive state in a form that can be used by others to enhance interaction with the person. Such interaction may be in the form of downloadable application, such as a video game, in which the play interaction is altered based upon the detected emotive state of the player. | 09-25-2014 |
20140295388 | System for the Development of Communication, Language, Behavioral and Social Skills - A software application for use with a computing device assists disabled individuals with communication, social, or language skills by providing hybrid displays that integrate scenes and hot spots therein with grids that display choices relating to the scene. The application can be location aware, displaying scenes relating to the current location. The application also can display a schedule of tasks that lead to the completion of a larger task. The application can also include an interface to create sentences, and an interface to create additional hotspots or schedules. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295389 | System for the Development of Communication, Language, Behavioral and Social Skills - A software application for use with a computing device assists disabled individuals with communication, social, or language skills by providing hybrid displays that integrate scenes and hot spots therein with grids that display choices relating to the scene. The application can be location aware, displaying scenes relating to the current location. The application also can display a schedule of tasks that lead to the completion of a larger task. The application can also include an interface to create sentences, and an interface to create additional hotspots or schedules. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295390 | Feedback Systems and Methods for Communicating Diagnostic and/or Treatment Signals to Enhance Obesity Treatments - Feedback systems and methods communicate implanted sensor-based feedback signals to promote behavior modifications that ameliorate obesity and other eating disorders. The system and methods described may also be applicable to any treatment in which presenting feedback regarding patients' eating and exercise habits is desired. The present invention provides a method and system for treating a patient by collecting ingestion and exercise information about the patient from an implanted sensor and communicating the collected information to the patient, his or her physician and/or other health care providers. In some embodiments, stimulation of the patient's stomach is also provided to reduce caloric intake. In some embodiments, the collected data is transmitted to a central server. Further embodiments may provide access to additional information in conjunction with the collected patient information, such as a calorie database, an exercise planner, and so forth, with the data optionally being used within a social networking system. | 10-02-2014 |
20140302469 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Multi-Modal Evaluation of a Presentation - Systems and methods are described for providing a multi-modal evaluation of a presentation. A system includes a motion capture device configured to detect motion an examinee giving a presentation and an audio recording device configured to capture audio of the examinee giving the presentation. One or more data processors are configured to extract a non-verbal feature of the presentation based on data collected by the motion capture device and an audio feature of the presentation based on data collected by the audio recording device. The one or more data processors are further configured to generate a presentation score based on the non-verbal feature and the audio feature. | 10-09-2014 |
20140302470 | Managing lifestyle resources system and method - Some embodiments provide a lifestyle management system for managing delivery of lifestyle information associated as an aggregation of lifestyle resources. Embodiments of the invention involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing lifestyle information through a single interface for a user's mobile device. Some embodiments include a lifestyle management system including relational model for defining social relationships between users with one or more relationship links defining a data relationship and/or information flow between lifestyle resources data stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. In some embodiments, the interface can provide tools to manage lifestyle resources available to a user of a mobile device such that the user can better manage the user's healthcare and lifestyle needs. The interface can also improve the efficiency of accessing and organizing lifestyle resources by gathering one or more user preferences and measuring the user's engagement with the provided resources. | 10-09-2014 |
20140308634 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACTUALIZING PROGRESSIVE LEARNING - Disclosed herein is a web-based learning apparatus and a method for progressive learning. The apparatus and a method enables identifying a learning flow pattern of the user for a particular topic by mapping the synchronicity of events with interest graphs in similarity sets. Further, the shift in user learning pattern and interest graph is recorded to enable the system derive an updated learning matrix of the user that is capable of presenting and recommending to the user of new expanded matrix comprising topics of his evolving interest. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308635 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A TRAVEL STRESS INDEX - A method for calculating a traveler stress index may include retrieving a dataset including transaction data on a plurality of trips from a storage device; calculating, using at least one processor, a maximum possible lost time value for each respective trip in at least a first subset of the plurality of trips; calculating, using the at least one processor, an actual lost time value for each respective trip in the first subset; summing the calculated maximum possible lost time values and actual lost time values to determine a total MPLT value for the first subset and a total ALT value for the first subset, respectively; and generating a stress index for the first subset by dividing the ALT value by the MPLT value. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308636 | PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON DETECTED STRESS AND A PREDICTED TYPE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL - The methods and systems described herein may involve determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and delivering content to at least one individual based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a game, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one player of the game, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and affecting the game play based on the analysis. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing an interactive space, determining at least one lifeotype of at least one individual in the space, analyzing the at least one lifeotype, and modifying at least one attribute of the space based on the analysis. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308637 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATING A CHANGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL - Methods and apparatus for facilitating a change for an individual. The methods and apparatus may include determining a current stage of change for an individual based upon information received about making a change. The methods and apparatus may also include setting up a sounding board to communicate with a select number of individuals to receive feedback and/or advice for facilitating a change. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308638 | USING AN EARNED POINTS SYSTEM TO PROVIDE INTERNET ACCESS - Systems and methods to restrict or meter internet access and usage using virtual currency based on chores, behaviors, and activities. The systems and methods allow controlled internet access using positive rewards, negative rewards, positive punishment, and negative punishment. Described herein is a system and method to create chores, behaviors, and activities that either grant or remove access or allow the earning of points with the conversion of the points into recreational internet access time, money, merchandise, or other reward. | 10-16-2014 |
20140315168 | FACIAL EXPRESSION MEASUREMENT FOR ASSESSMENT, MONITORING, AND TREATMENT EVALUATION OF AFFECTIVE AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS - Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture facilitate diagnosis of affective mental and neurological disorders. Extended facial expression responses to various stimuli are evoked or spontaneously collected, and automatically evaluated using machine learning techniques and automatic facial expression measurement (AFEM) techniques. The stimuli may include pictures, videos, tasks of various emotion-eliciting paradigms, such as a reward-punishment paradigm, an anger eliciting paradigm, a fear eliciting paradigm, and a structured interview paradigm. The extended facial expression responses, which may include facial expression responses as well head pose responses and gesture responses, are analyzed using machine learning techniques to diagnose the subject, to estimate the likelihood that the subject suffers from a specific disorder, and/or to evaluate treatment efficacy. | 10-23-2014 |
20140315169 | COMPUTER GENERATED THREE DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT FOR IMPROVING MEMORY - The present disclosure relates to a computer generated 3D virtual environment for improving memory (e.g. spatial, temporal, spatial-temporal, working and short-term memory). In an aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method for generating a 3D virtual reality (VR) environment for improving spatial memory. In an embodiment, the method comprises executing at least one VR memory training module including one or more memory training tasks to be performed within a navigable three-dimensional (3D) environment; displaying a navigable 3D environment via an output to a display; and receiving an input from an interactive navigational controller. In another embodiment, the method may further comprise performing one or more scans of brain activity, whereby, the effectiveness of the at least one VR memory training module in targeting a region of the brain can be measured. The determination of which VR memory training modules to retrieve and execute may be made based on the measured effectiveness of a previous VR memory training module training session in targeting a selected region of the brain. | 10-23-2014 |
20140315170 | Apparatus, System, and Method to Promote Behavior Change Based on Mindfulness Methodologies - System, method, and article to prompt behavior change based on a mindfulness methodology are provided. Various aspects of the system include mindfulness promotion data generated and/or communicated from/to a device; a methodology module associated with software/processor to identify at least one behavior change methodology associated with the mindfulness promotion data; and an instruction module associated with a software/processor to initiate the identified at least one behavior change methodology. | 10-23-2014 |
20140322685 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING COGNITION VIA A PHYSICALLY INTUITIVE SPATIAL VISUALIZATION TASK - A method and system for training cognitive ability which may comprise a system and method for training a spatial visualization aspect of the cognitive ability of a user, which may comprise conducting, via a user computing device user interface display, a trial that may comprise presenting, a container having a plurality of sections, each with a plurality of corresponding sub-sections configured to fold upon one another; displaying at least one object occupying a sub-section of a first section and at least one object occupying a sub-section of the second section; allowing the user to manipulate the position of at least one object in at least one of the sub-sections of at least one of the first section and the second section, so as to avoid interference by any object in the first section with any object in the second section when corresponding sub-sections are folded upon one another. | 10-30-2014 |
20140329211 | PROVIDING LOCATION-RELEVANT GOAL FULFILLMENT RECOMMENDATIONS WHILE INSIDE A NON-RESIDENTIAL LOCATION - A method for providing location-relevant goal fulfillment messages to a mobile device can begin with a location-based goal coaching system receiving location data for a mobile device. When inside a non-residential location, a proximate area map for the mobile device can be dynamically generated using the received location data. The proximate area map can express a position of the mobile device within the non-residential location and points of interest or items within a predefined radius of the mobile device. Elements of the proximate area map that are relevant to a goal expressed in a previously defined user-specific goal profile can be identified. For each goal having a relevant identified element, a goal fulfillment recommendation can be created. The goal fulfillment recommendation can then be conveyed to the mobile device, making the user aware of the nearby presence of the item or point of interest and its relationship to the goal. | 11-06-2014 |
20140329212 | Systems and Methods For Managing The Toilet Training Process Of A Child - A computer system for managing toilet training of a person is provided. The computer system includes a memory device, a display device, and a processor in communication with the memory device and the display device. The processor is programmed to receive a first trigger event associated with a toilet training event. The processor is also programmed to display, on the display device, a first multi-media presentation based at least in part on said receipt of the first trigger event. The processor is further programed to collect feedback data from a user. The processor is also programmed to store the feedback data in the memory device. | 11-06-2014 |
20140329213 | Systems and Methods For Managing The Toilet Training Process Of A Child - A computer system for managing toilet training of a person is provided. The computer system includes a memory device, an input device, a display device, and a processor. The processor is programmed to provide a first set of enhanced functionality configured in an enabled status, wherein the first set of enhanced functionality includes an event timer associated with a toilet training event. The processor is also programmed to disable the first set of enhanced functionality. The processor is further programmed to receive activation data from a user using the input device. The processor is also programmed to reconfigure the first set of enhanced functionality to an enabled status based at least in part on the activation data. | 11-06-2014 |
20140335486 | Comprehensive, Structured And Systematic Attention Training Tutoring Program - A method, apparatus and computer program product for attention training and tutoring is presented. Attention training and tutoring is provided which includes providing at least two of the group including behavioral therapy, parent training, development of routines to support attention, on-going feedback during the sessions, mindfulness and/or biofeedback, self-awareness of student's focus, and gradual mastery and independence towards tasks. The attention training and tutoring program includes structured lessons delineated in a protocol, research-based approaches, systematic lesson plan, systematic training, formal questionnaires, and web-based data tracking and review in order to provide an enhanced outcome. The attention training and tutoring includes providing neurofeedback training, the neurofeedback training aiding a user in learning to focus and to maintain focus; and providing relaxation and biofeedback, the relaxation and biofeedback aiding a user in learning to relax via calm breathing or biofeedback. | 11-13-2014 |
20140335487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONSE INHIBITION SWITCHING TASK INCORPORATING MOTION FOR ENHANCING COGNITIONS - A method and apparatus for training attention ability aspects of cognitive ability of a user is disclosed which may comprise conducting, via a user computing device user interface display, a trial which may comprise: presenting, via the user computing device user interface display, a plurality of objects comprising a visually recognizable pointing direction pointing in an axis with respect to the user interface display and moving in an axis with respect to the user interface display; presenting, via a user computing device, the objects in one of a corresponding mode wherein the pointing direction of each object corresponds to the movement direction of each object and a non-corresponding mode wherein the pointing direction is different from the movement direction; requiring the user to input a response indicating one of the pointing direction and the movement direction. | 11-13-2014 |
20140335488 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL INFORMATION - A device and method for providing medical information to patients admitted in health care facilities such as hospitals, comprising a container with medical information relating to a medical condition provided on a display panel thereof, wherein the container can be used to store and transport a patient's personal items, wherein the container and medical information thereon is provided to the patient upon admission to the health care facility, the patient is educated regarding the information during the course of the patient's stay, and the patient is encouraged to take the container upon discharge from the facility. | 11-13-2014 |
20140335489 | METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING,TRAINING, EXERCISE AND REGULATION - A computer assisted method for treating pain in a subject comprising measuring activity of one or more internal voxels of a brain of said subject associated with pain; communicating instructions to said subject which modulate activity of said voxel; and training said subject to control said internal voxel. | 11-13-2014 |
20140335490 | BEHAVIOR TRACKING AND MODIFICATION SYSTEM - A behavior modification system includes a network of components that interact to collect various data and provide user feedback. The network may include a personal device, an Internet-enabled storage device and a hub capable of receiving communications from the personal device and communicating to the storage device. The personal device may include bio-impedance measurement circuitry, an accelerometer and a processor for determining energy expenditure based on data from the accelerometer(s). The system may include a smart hub capable of routing communications between various components within the system. The hub may include different transceivers for different communication protocols. The system may incorporate a low-power RF wake-up system. The system may include bio-impedance measurement circuitry that is reconfigurable to function as an alternative type of sensor. In other aspects, the present invention provides a method for measuring bio-resonance and a method for determining caloric intake from body composition and caloric expenditure. | 11-13-2014 |
20140342326 | MEMORY CAPTURING, STORING AND RECALLING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for capturing, storing and recalling moments within a presentation view. A plurality of data items, preferably video, but not restricted to video, called moment records, whereby each data item has an associated time are captured, stored and encapsulated into larger packets by associating them with a presentation view having a predetermined form herein called a storyboard. Such actions are performed in real time for the benefit of memory recall to the user experiencing and capturing such moments that are intended to be accessed by the user during capture or at a later time. | 11-20-2014 |
20140342327 | Removing learning effect from cognitive tests - A system for removing the learning effects from cognitive tests includes variation of the difficulty of the test between the administering of the tests so as to minimize the ability of a test taker to memorize a test. | 11-20-2014 |
20140342328 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND PRESENTING HEALTH, WELLNESS AND FITNESS DATA WITH FEEDBACK AND COACHING ENGINE - A nutrition and activity management system is disclosed that monitors energy expenditure of an individual through the use of a body-mounted sensing apparatus. The apparatus is particularly adapted for continuous wear. The system is also adaptable or applicable to measuring a number of other physiological parameters and reporting the same and derivations of such parameters. A weight management embodiment is directed to achieving an optimum or preselected energy balance between calories consumed and energy expended by the user. An adaptable computerized nutritional tracking system is utilized to obtain data regarding food consumed, Relevant and predictive feedback is provided to the user regarding the mutual effect of the user's energy expenditure, food consumption and other measured or derived or manually input physiological contextual parameters upon progress toward said goal. | 11-20-2014 |
20140349260 | Promises tracking device and method thereof for enhancement of behavior control - A method of tracking promises from a user, which includes the steps of providing a learning and training phase to the user for learning promise techniques, recording a plurality of viable promises made by the user in a chainlike manner to form a promise chain; guiding the user to keep each of the viable promises from the promise chain; and determining a promise score of the user regarding to the promise chain, which is an incentive to motivate the user to keep the promise score as high as possible, wherein when one of the viable promises is broken, the promise chain is then broken to have a negative affect on the promise score. | 11-27-2014 |
20140349261 | THERAPEUTIC VIDEO GAME DEVICE AND METHOD - A therapeutic video game device and method for cognitive bias modification wherein the video game presents negative and positive stimuli in two discrete areas and repeatedly focuses the user's attention away from the negative stimulus by providing a series of objectives which require the user to input commands into an input means to affect the video game environment in an area away from the negative stimulus. The repeated focus of the user's attention away from the negative stimulus results in a decrease in cognitive bias to negative behaviors such as anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, eating disorders, lack of exercise, and lack of self-esteem. The video game provides an engaging, enjoyable experience for the user. | 11-27-2014 |
20140349262 | PROGRESSIVE PREGNANCY WELLNESS PROMOTION USING A PROGRESSION SCHEME AND TASK TRACKING - In some embodiments, a scheme engine selects a progressive support scheme that promotes wellness by encouraging users to responsibly respond to a health condition. The scheme includes a set of nodes. Each node represents a progression of the health condition being experienced by a user. A node of the set of nodes is associated with a set of tasks, each promoting wellness given a presence of the condition. A progression tracker identifies, for the user, the node as corresponding to a current progression of the condition. A task engine assigns a weight to a task characteristic based on an input received from the user and selects a task from amongst the set of tasks associated with the identified node. The selection of the task is based on the weight assigned to the task characteristic. The task engine further presents the task to the user. | 11-27-2014 |
20140356823 | Meditation device - A meditation and prayer device including a body portion, electronics, integrated user interface, and data port. The device includes a user interface that allows the user to set the practice session duration, color of light, and choice of sound. The electronics enables the device to emit visual and auditory cues for when the practice session begins and ends. Data are stored in the device and available for transfer to other electronics products and online services through a data port. The device is portable and easy to manufacture. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356824 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF STIMULI INDUCED PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS - A patient may be treated for a psychological disorder, such as misophonia or a phobia, through the use of a system and method. The method may store a trigger media set in a data store; the trigger media set may include one or more trigger media files that encode audio, visual, and/or audiovisual trigger stimuli known to trigger the psychological disorder. A treatment plan may also be stored in the data store; the treatment plan may include at least a first trigger selection of a first trigger media file from the trigger media set. A processor may execute the treatment plan by intermittently initiating playback of the first trigger selection for the patient, through a first output device. This playback may be mixed with exposure of the patient to positive stimuli, which may also be included in the treatment plan and provided through the first output device. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356825 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SPATIAL SEQUENCE MEMORY - A method and system are presented to address quantitative assessment of spatial sequence memory in a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene to the subject on a display, the scene comprising a plurality of elements and a background; (2) modulating the saliency of a predetermined section of said scene (3) receiving feedback from the subject via at least one input device; (4) modifying the saliency of the predetermined section; (5) adjusting a functional assessment parameter relative to the scene; (6) moving the predetermined section relative to the scene; (7) receiving refined feedback from the subject via the input device; (8) quantitatively refining the refined feedback; (9) calculating a critical threshold parameter for the subject; and (10) recording the critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356826 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF WORD IDENTIFICATION LATENCY - A method and system are presented to address quantitative assessment of word identification latency of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene, comprising a plurality of letters and a background, to a subject on a display; (2) moving the plurality of letters relative to the scene; (3) receiving feedback from the subject via the input device; (4) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (5) modulating the movement of plurality of letters relative to accuracy of the quantitatively refined feedback; ((6) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (7) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356827 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF LETTER IDENTIFICATION LATENCY - A method and system are presented to address quantitative assessment of letter identification latency of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene to a subject on a display, the scene comprising a plurality of letters and a background; (2) moving the plurality of letters relative to the scene, the movement being tracked by the subject via at least one input device; (3) receiving feedback from the subject via the input device; (4) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (5) modulating the movement of plurality of letters relative to accuracy of the received feedback; (6) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (7) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356828 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF WORD DETECTION LATENCY - A method and system are presented to address quantitative assessment of word recognition sensitivity of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene to a subject on a display, the scene comprising a plurality of letters and a background; (2) distorting the scene; (3) moving plurality of letters relative to the scene, the movement being tracked by the subject via at least one input device; (4) receiving feedback from the subject via the input device; (5) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (6) modulating the movement of plurality of letters relative to accuracy of the received feedback; (7) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (8) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356829 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS NULLING TESTING - A method and system are presented to address quantitative assessment of social interactions nulling testing of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene to the subject on a display, the scene comprising a plurality of body images and a background; (2) receiving feedback from the subject via at least one input device; (3) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (4) modulating the adjusted body image relative to the accuracy of the received feedback; (5) calculating a critical threshold parameter for the subject; (6) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356830 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF FACIAL EMOTION NULLING - A method and system are presented to address quantitative assessment of facial emotion nulling of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene, comprising a single facial expressions and a background, to a subject on a display; (2) adjusting the facial expression on the scene; (3) receiving feedback from the subject via at least one input device; (4) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (5) modulating the adjusted facial expression relative to the accuracy of the quantitatively refined feedback; (6) transforming the modulated facial expression; (7) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (8) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356831 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF VERBAL RECOGNITION MEMORY - A method and system are presented to address quantitative assessment of verbal memory of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene to the subject on a display, the scene comprising a plurality of symbols and a background; (2) moving the plurality of symbols relative to the scene, the movement being tracked by the subject via at least one input device; (3) adjusting the saliency of the plurality of symbols relative to the tracked movement; (4) increasing the number of said plurality of symbols; (5) receiving feedback from the subject via said input device; (6) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (7) modulating the movement of the plurality of symbols relative to the accuracy of the quantitatively refined feedback; (8) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (9) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356832 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF FACIAL EMOTION NULLING - A method and system are presented to address quantitative assessment of facial emotion nulling of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene, comprising a single facial expressions and a background, to a subject on a display; (2) adjusting the facial expression on the scene; (3) receiving feedback from the subject via at least one input device; (4) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (5) modulating the adjusted facial expression relative to the accuracy of the quantitatively refined feedback; (6) transforming the modulated facial expression; (7) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (8) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. | 12-04-2014 |
20140363796 | Gesture-based cognitive testing - Gesture sensing is used as an input to perform cognitive function testing. | 12-11-2014 |
20140363797 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING WELLNESS-RELATED DIRECTIVES TO A USER - One variation of a method for providing wellness-related directives to a user includes: at a computing device associated with the user, receiving a selection for a first wellness application and a selection for a second wellness application; receiving a first set of motion data collected by the computing device and a wearable device wirelessly coupled to the mobile computing device; generating a first directive for the user according to the first set of motion data and a first rule defined within the first wellness application; identifying a conflict between the first directive and a second directive, the second directive generated from motion data received from the wearable device according to a second rule defined within the second wellness application; and electing the first directive for presentation to the user in place of the second directive according to a conflict resolution scheme. | 12-11-2014 |
20140363798 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF WORD RECOGNITION SENSITIVITY - A method and system are presented to address quantitative assessment of word recognition sensitivity of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) presenting at least one scene, comprising a plurality of letters and a background, to a subject on a display; (2) moving the plurality of letters relative to the scene; (3) receiving feedback from the subject via at least one; (4) quantitatively refining the received feedback; (5) modulating the saliency of the plurality of letters relative to accuracy of the quantitatively refined feedback; (6) calculating a critical threshold parameter; and (7) recording a critical threshold parameter onto a tangible computer readable medium. | 12-11-2014 |
20140370469 | UTILIZING APPLIANCE OPERATING PATTERNS TO DETECT COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT - A method, system or computer usable program product for detecting a change in appliance operating patterns as an indication of cognitive impairment including monitoring a first operating pattern for an appliance by a user to establish a baseline operating pattern; and responsive to detecting a second operating pattern for the appliance by the user deviating from the established baseline operating pattern exceeding a threshold, providing an indication of a possible cognitive impairment of the user. | 12-18-2014 |
20140370470 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY AND AUGMENTATION OF BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION THERAPY AND TEACHING - A system, apparatus and method are provide for a lesson to a user of the system. The lesson may be a behavioral lesson or a teaching lesson, such as where knowledge or skill is being imparted to the user. In one aspect, the inventions include a sensor apparatus, the sensor apparatus generating an output indicative of a user's actions. Memory is provided for storing an individual user profile including at least a plan. and a display. A processor and associated storage comprising a computing platform to generate user feedback | 12-18-2014 |
20140370471 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ATTENTION AND FOCUS ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE - The present invention relates to a device for focusing a user's attention for an individual who loses focus during an activity. This is accomplished by randomizing (which includes pseudo randomizing) each reminder prompts as well as the time interval within a selected time frame. | 12-18-2014 |
20140370472 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING VALUE ASSESSMENTS - Systems, methods, and computer interfaces for providing value assessment for a user that may involve interconnected computer hardware configured in a particular manner for receiving or suggesting a plurality of life aspects; receiving evaluation input data for each of a plurality of life aspects, wherein the evaluation input data indicates a level of satisfaction for the respective life aspect; receiving or suggesting a plurality of negative triggers; for each of the plurality of negative triggers, receiving or suggesting a positive counter to the respective negative trigger; identifying a plurality of values based on the positive counters to the plurality of negative triggers; for each combination of a value of the plurality of values and a life aspect of the plurality of life aspects, receiving value assessment input data that indicates how present the respective value is within the respective life aspect; and generating value assessment results based on the received value assessment input data and the evaluation input data. | 12-18-2014 |
20140377727 | User Behavior Monitoring On A Computerized Device - The subject disclosure is directed towards monitoring user behavior on a computerized device for any deviation from normal or acceptable behavior that is likely to affect the user's mental state. A prediction model corresponding to features of one or more mental states may be compared with features based upon current user behavior. If the user's current behavior presents a mental state indicative of an uncharacteristic deviation from the normal or acceptable behavior, descriptive data associated with that mental state may be presented to the user in addition to a trusted individual, such as a health care professional. | 12-25-2014 |
20140377728 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED TREATMENT OF BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS - A system and method are provided for treating excessive or problematic computer use. In at least one embodiment, a method is employed to treat excessive or problematic computer use by acquiring information about the unwanted user activity, monitoring user activity for the unwanted behavior, controlling the behavior when it occurs, enabling the user to record self-observations and evaluating the results. This method may employ a computer based system to treat excessive or problematic computer use which includes configuring a user activity monitor with constraints, programmatically enforcing those constraints, reporting the activities monitored and restricted, and enabling a user to input self-observations. Potential constraints include a complete bar on the user activity, as well as, progressively decreasing the amount of time the user may engage in the activity, i.e. titrating the user activity. | 12-25-2014 |
20140377729 | BIOMETRIC MONITORING DEVICE HAVING A BODY WEIGHT SENSOR, AND METHODS OF OPERATING SAME - A system comprising a biometric monitoring device including a housing including a platform to receive at least one foot of the user, a body weight sensor to generate body weight data, processing circuitry to calculate user weight data which corresponds to the user's weight, using the body weight data, and communication circuitry to: (a) receive user identification data which identifies the user or a portable activity monitoring device, and (b) transmit the user weight data to data storage associated with the user identification data. The system further includes the portable activity monitoring device including a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user's body, a sensor to generate sensor data, and communication circuitry to receive physiologic data which is based on the user weight data, and processing circuitry to calculate activity data using the sensor data and physiologic data. | 12-25-2014 |
20150010890 | SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING BRAIN FUNCTION IN ORDER TO PREVENT DEMENTIA AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME - A system for improving brain function includes a brain-function-improving content storage unit that subdivides content for judging the degree of activation of human brain function into multiple classified regions and levels, and stores the subdivided content; a content selection unit that selects the content stored in the brain-function-improving content storage unit for each region according to a predetermined classification method; and an achievement determination unit that determines achievement of a user based on scores acquired through feedback provided by the user for the content selected by the content selection unit. The system may have the effect of protecting subdivided inherent functions of the brain, preventing disorders caused by accidents or diseases, recovering the inherent functions and disorders through analytic diagnosis and repeated study, and training and improving the cognitive ability of significantly impaired portions of brain function by subdividing the inherent functions of the brain. | 01-08-2015 |
20150017618 | PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system, method, and software product psychologically profile an athlete using a mobile device. Data collected from the athlete using an app running on the mobile device is received and processed to determine a psychological profile score and at least one activity to train the athlete is provided based upon the psychological profile score. | 01-15-2015 |
20150024355 | LIGHTER AND METHOD FOR MONITORING SMOKING BEHAVIOR - A lighter and a method for monitoring smoking behavior include a lighter having a housing and a lockable lighting element secured to the housing. A smoking reduction plan includes smoking reduction goals specific to the user of the lighter, such as a maximum number of daily cigarettes, and a time interval between cigarette smoking events. The user operates a trigger to activate the lighting element to light a cigarette. When the lighting element is activated for a sufficient duration of time, the lighter records a smoking event. A microprocessor is configured for controlling the operation of the lighting element. When the elapsed time since the most recent smoking event is less than the target smoking interval, or when a user has reached the maximum daily cigarette limit, the microprocessor may optionally render the lighting element inoperable. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024356 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INDUCING NEUROPLASTICITY - Apparatus and method for stimulating neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity may be stimulated in functional brain tissue and used to improve or enhance function in adjacent, neuroanatomically-related, or otherwise associated dysfunctional brain tissue. The present apparatus and method may comprise a fully or partially automated system that can be programmed to detect and measure brain function in an individual, to select and provide the appropriate sensorimotor stimuli to target specific targeted brain function, to measure and detect changes in the targeted brain function, and to adapt the stimuli according to the changes in the targeted brain function. | 01-22-2015 |
20150024357 | PERCEPTUAL-COGNITIVE-MOTOR LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present disclosure relates to a perceptual-cognitive-motor learning system. The system includes an apparatus for evaluating or improving perceptual-cognitive abilities of a subject during a training sequence. The system also has a training sequence controller for adding in at least a part of the training sequence at least one of (a) a first motor load add-on to the subject and (b) a second motor load add-on to the subject, the second motor load being heavier than the first motor load. A variant of the system has a user interface for allowing the subject to change at least one parameter of the training sequence. Methods for evaluating or improving perceptual-cognitive abilities of a subject are also disclosed | 01-22-2015 |
20150024358 | STRESS ASSESSMENT DEVICE, STRESS ASSESSMENT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - It is an object of this invention to provide a stress assessment device capable of assessing mental stress without requiring another previous knowledge or imposing a load on an observer or an employee. A stress assessment device ( | 01-22-2015 |
20150024359 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ASD) AND NON-ASD DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY - Methods and systems are presented herein to distinguish children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) from those with other forms of developmental delay (DD) based on patterns of gene expression levels in blood. | 01-22-2015 |
20150031002 | RECOMMENDING REESTABLISHMENT OF DISCONTINUED PRODUCTIVE HABITS - A method, system and computer program for recommending reestablishment of discontinued productive habits. An example method includes recording behaviors over time in pursuit of an identified goal, measuring progress towards an identified goal over time, identifying one or more periods of time where positive progress toward the identified goal resulted, identifying one or more periods of time where negative progress toward an identified goal resulted, identifying, by an electronic computer processor, differences in the behaviors between the periods of time where the positive progress resulted and the periods of time where the negative progress resulted, and recommending behavior changes based on the identified differences of the behaviors. | 01-29-2015 |
20150031003 | NEUROPERFORMANCE - A method of promoting fluid intelligence abilities in a subject includes the steps of: selecting one or more serial order of symbols sequences from a predefined library of complete symbols sequences and, from this selection, providing the subject with one or more incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences; prompting the subject to manipulate symbols within the one or more incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences or to discriminate differences or sameness between two or more of the incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences; determining whether the subject correctly manipulated the symbols or correctly discriminated differences or sameness between the two or more further selected incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences; if the subject correctly manipulated the symbols or correctly discriminated differences or sameness between the two or more of the incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences, then displaying the correct manipulations or discriminated differences or sameness with at least one different spatial or time perceptual related attribute, to highlight the correct answer. | 01-29-2015 |
20150031004 | PHYSICALLY INTUITIVE, REAL-TIME, MULTIPLE OBJECT TRACKING, PLANNING AND DIVIDED ATTENTION TASK FOR ENHANCING COGNITION - A method and apparatus for enhancing a cognitive ability of a user may comprise: conducting, via a user interface display of a user computing device, a training session which may comprise: presenting a transportation routing network having a source of travelers and a respective unique destination for each traveler and a path from the source to the respective unique destination, each path comprising at least one direction modification element operable by the user to correctly direct the traveler from the source to the respective unique destination; displaying to the user a traveler moving along a path from the source to the at least one direction modification element; allowing the user to control the position of the at least one direction modification element so as to direct the traveler from the source to the respective unique destination. | 01-29-2015 |
20150031005 | Method of Training Verbal and/or Visual Information Processing By Executing Computer-Executable Instructions Stored On a Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium - A method of training verbal and/or visual information allows a user to train their cognitive processing of verbal or visual information. A plurality of visual stimuli is sequentially displayed on a display device, and the user is tasked with identifying whether a stimuli currently displayed was displayed a specified number of elements in the sequence prior to the current element. Each of the visual stimuli is associated with one of a plurality of categories, and the category or categories to be trained may vary. A stimuli recall event may be triggered which challenges the user to recall their previous correct answers. | 01-29-2015 |
20150031006 | METHOD FOR ALTERING RECURRING DREAMS INCLUDING NIGHTMARES - The invention provides a method of altering dreams, including nightmares, which can be applied to individuals or groups. | 01-29-2015 |
20150037768 | METHODS FOR REDUCING CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND FOR CALCULATING CHILDHOOD OBESITY RISK - The present disclosure provides personalized methods for preventing and/or reducing early childhood obesity that are based upon identifying a child's individual risk of obesity and tailoring methods to prevent or reduce obesity. The methods are based on early inception, anticipatory guidance, sequential guidance, and nutritionally and developmentally appropriate dietary and parental feeding behaviors guidance, all specifically targeting factors that have been associated with childhood obesity. The methods use an obesity risk calculator to tailor the methods to address an individual child's risk with regard to specific modifiable factors associated with obesity. The present methods may help instill early healthy eating habits and nutritious food preferences for infants and young children, promote an appropriate early growth trajectory, and a long term weight status that is consistent with public policy recommendations and associated with long term health. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037769 | GENERATING A CIRCADIAN TIME DIFFERENCE - Information about a person's circadian rhythm is generated in terms of a difference between a reference and a specific circadian time for a specific wall-clock time or in terms of a difference between a special and a specific wall-clock time for a specific circadian time event. | 02-05-2015 |
20150044648 | ACTIVITY RECOGNITION WITH ACTIVITY REMINDERS - An athletic performance monitoring system, for motivating a user to reach a goal level of athletic activity. The system may motivate the user by calculation a deficit between a current total level of activity and the goal level of athletic activity, and suggesting activity types that the user may carry out an order to reach the goal level, wherein the suggested activity types may be based on activities that are geographically close to the user, or sporting equipment worn by, or in possession of, the user. | 02-12-2015 |
20150044649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION OF BEHAVIOR CORRELATED WITH OUTSIDE DISTRACTIONS IN EXAMINATIONS - Techniques for behavior detection in electronic examinations may be realized as a method including: collecting sensor data of an examinee taking an electronic examination, the sensor data including visual image data of the examinee taken over time; automatically detecting from the collected sensor data a pattern of behavior correlated with potential misconduct; and providing an alert to an administrator of the electronic examination based on the detected pattern of behavior. The techniques may further be realized as a system configured to collect visual image data of the examinee and one or more processors configured to carry out the method. | 02-12-2015 |
20150044650 | POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT MESSAGES TO USERS BASED ON ANALYTICS OF PRIOR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS - Described herein are systems and methods to utilize factual information based on stored analyte or physiological data to allow for positive reinforcement of behaviors that are conducive to managing a chronic disease. | 02-12-2015 |
20150050626 | Systems, Methods, and Software for Improving Cognitive and Motor Abilities - Systems and methods for treating patients to improve cognitive or motor abilities are disclosed. One exemplary method comprises receiving a visiting patient at a clinic, administering an augmenting agent to the visiting patient, training the visiting patient to stimulate neuronal activity, and recording augmenting agent administration data and patient training data associated with the visiting patient. The augmenting agent may comprise a phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE 4) inhibitor. The method may further comprise receiving a returning patient at the clinic, administering the augmenting agent to the returning patient, training the returning patient to stimulate neuronal activity, and recording augmenting agent administration data and patient training data associated with the returning patient. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050627 | PROPHYLACTIC KIT APPARATUS - A prophylactic kit apparatus configured to be used with only a single patient includes a plurality of sealed modules and a housing configured to contain those sealed modules such that only one of the plurality of sealed modules can be removed from the housing at a time. This kit may include a physically-discrete informational patient aid disposed within the housing and having information disposed thereon. By one approach these physically-discrete informational patient aids can have a bookmark form factor. So configured, a medical services provider can readily provide the physically-discrete informational patient aid to a patient to thereby facilitate the patient becoming informed regarding the corresponding prophylactic service with little or no burden on the service provider. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050628 | AUTISM DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND AUTISM DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT DEVICE - An autism diagnosis support method and system, and device capable of providing support to early detection and early definite diagnosis on the basis of objective evaluation, are provided by using a conventionally proposed “eye-gaze detection technique”. The method includes: displaying, on a screen of the display portion, a combination image for sequentially displaying at least two images including a predetermined human image (I) and a predetermined non-human image (II); and evaluating an eye-gaze position of the subject by detecting eye-gaze position information on the subject looking at the combination image in use of the eye-gaze detecting unit, then inputting the eye-gaze position information on the subject in an eye-gaze position information storing portion, and comparing, based on an eye-gaze position evaluation algorithm, the eye-gaze position information on the subject with eye-gaze position information on an individual with autism and/or a typically developing individual. | 02-19-2015 |
20150056587 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING THE SCORING OF TASK INFORMATION - A method and system for scoring task information. Through the use of an electronic time management device, such as a cell phone or other portable digital computer based device programmed to support this method, a user enters a description of a task and when the task should be completed. This information is then communicated to a scoring system, and the information is scored without human intervention and points are given. Optionally, if the information cannot be automatically scored, it is scored by a person. These points can be banked and then be used toward a socially desirable reward, such as sending text messages or playing music or watching videos. This is particularly effective in teaching time management skills to young students who may have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). | 02-26-2015 |
20150056588 | Electronic Health Care Coach - An Electronic Health Care Coach is provided for patients that have trouble taking their medications or remembering to test for such things as blood sugar and the like. The Electronic Health Care Coach provides voice prompts to the patient to determine compliance with dosing of medications or routine testing. The Electronic Health Care Coach takes the form of a stuffed toy such as a teddy bear and utilizes input sensors that are contained by an appendage of the stuffed toy that are sensitive to human touch. Multiple prompts are employed depending on the responses received. Statistics on patient compliance are collected. The stuffed toy and related voice prompts and input sensors provide a friendly and easy to use reminder system for medications and routine testing that creates a positive experience for the patient, thus increasing patient compliance. | 02-26-2015 |
20150056589 | WELLNESS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM BY WELLNESS MODE BASED ON CONTEXT-AWARENESS PLATFORM ON SMARTPHONE - A device, method and system processes data about the user for determining and recommending a health/wellness action to the user. The action determined can be based on: (1) current biometric and/or motion data about the user (from the sensors), and (2) current health/medical information or condition about the user (from the user's personal information, e.g., health library or programmed into the smartphone). Specific information about the user is taken into consideration when recommending user action, such as the user's specific health or medical conditions. | 02-26-2015 |
20150064669 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS - A method for treating emotional and behavioural disorder includes using a sensor to obtain data pertaining to physiological responses of a user to an emotionally loaded sentence, to listed emotions, to listed chronological periods in the user's life, and to listed causes that may have led to absorption of an emotion during a period in the user's life. From the physiological response, an emotion having greatest emotional effect on the user, when it was absorbed, and its cause are determined. The user is presented with information associating the emotion, chronological period and cause. A sensor is used to obtain physiological data pertaining to the response of the user to a second instance of exposure to the emotionally loaded sentence. A result of treatment is determined by analysing and comparing the physiological data pertaining to the first and second exposures of the user to the emotionally loaded sentence. | 03-05-2015 |
20150064670 | DATA COLLECTION FOR VESTIBULOGRAM CONSTRUCTION - The methods, systems, and computer program products described herein enable the amount of information that can be acquired during a defined period of vestibular testing to be significantly increased while also significantly reducing the time required to collect data during such vestibular testing. These objects are achieved by intelligent data collection methods and systems configured to adaptively control a motion platform in a way that increases the amount of information gleaned from each data collection event and to achieve synergies based on the different types of, and the order of data analysis and calibration methods used. | 03-05-2015 |
20150064671 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING GOALS AND PROCESSING GOALS-RELATED DATA - Systems, methods and computer readable media for processing user-specified goals can include storing user accounts that are capable of directly linking to another, receiving and storing user-specified goals for each user account and associating proposed accomplishments including a value and unit of measurement, reminders and privacy and security settings. Also included are sending alerts at configurable time periods and providing advertising and rewards in accordance with the user-specified goals. Also included are displaying on a display device the user-specified goal data, progress graphs of user-specified goals for each user account node, and a status of obtaining a reward when a user-specified goal corresponds to one of the goals associated with the rewards. | 03-05-2015 |
20150064672 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF SUBSTANCE ADDICTION - Systems and methods for treatment for addiction to a substance according to a predetermined action plan that includes a message control center for sending information to a messaging-accessible device associated with a user, an analyzer for analyzing an indicia of use of said substance, and a personalized treatment engine to receive an output from the analyzer and to direct the message control center based, at least in part, on the output from the analyzer and the predetermined action plan for the user. | 03-05-2015 |
20150072324 | MONITORING, TRACKING, AND MANAGING SYMPTOMS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - Various embodiments of the present invention describe mechanisms configured to monitor, track, and manage symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD). According to particular embodiments, a system includes an interface configured to present a memory test to a user and an interface configured to receive a response to the memory test. The system includes a processor that is configured to determine whether the user experienced a memory lapse based on the response to the memory test. The system further includes a computer memory configured to store data related to the memory lapse and memory ratings over time. Memory ratings and Alzheimer's disease progression ratings can be displayed using the system. | 03-12-2015 |
20150079560 | Wearable Monitoring and Training System for Focus and/or Mood - A wearable signal acquisition and computerized display device including at least one first sensor configured to measure at least one of the following attributes from a subject wearing the device: attention, focus, concentration, alertness, and mood. The device has a heads-up display or goggles, glasses, or another head piece having lenses. The measurement is derived from the subject's brainwaves by use of one or more algorithms. The subject wearing the device receives neurofeedback data based on this measurement through the projected image to train them how to control attention, mood, etc. and improve understanding as to how various external stimuli in the real world or virtual world impact these attributes. In one variation the sensors measure brainwave signals at two positions of the subject and use the difference in these measurements to derive an attention indicator signal used to provide neurofeedback. | 03-19-2015 |
20150079561 | GENERATING, DISPLAYING, AND TRACKING OF WELLNESS TASKS - A method of facilitating a completion of a wellness task is disclosed. A goal pertaining to a health of a user is determined. Information is identified that is to be collected to determine a progress of the user toward accomplishing the goal. A level of specificity at which to prompt the user to provide a portion of the information is selected. The user is prompted to provide the portion of the information at the level of specificity. A progress of the user toward accomplishing the goal is determined based on the portion of the information. | 03-19-2015 |
20150086949 | USING USER MOOD AND CONTEXT TO ADVISE USER - Various systems and methods for using a user's mood and context to advise a user are described herein. Data may be received at a mobile device, the mobile device associated with the user. A mood of the user is determined based on the data. An event involving the user is identified and advice is provided to the user regarding the event, the advice based on the received data, the mood, and the event. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086950 | IMPROVING NEUROPERFORMANCE - A method of promoting fluid intelligence abilities in a subject includes: selecting one or more serial order of symbols sequences from a predefined library of complete symbols sequences and providing the subject with one or more incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences; prompting the subject to manipulate symbols within the incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences or to discriminate differences or sameness between two or more of the incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences; determining whether the subject correctly manipulated the symbols or correctly discriminated differences or sameness between the two or more incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences; if the subject correctly manipulated the symbols or correctly discriminated differences or sameness between the two or more of the incomplete serial orders of symbols sequences, then displaying the correct manipulations or discriminated selection with at least one different spatial or time perceptual related attribute, to highlight the correct answer. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086951 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRIMING A PERSON - The present invention relates to healthy lifestyle management. In particular to a device for priming a person ( | 03-26-2015 |
20150086952 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A BEHAVIOR CHANGE OF A PERSON - The present invention relates to healthy lifestyle management. In particular to a device for supporting a behavior change of a person ( | 03-26-2015 |
20150093728 | Learning Estimation Method and Computer System thereof - A learning estimation method comprises tagging an identification tag on a learning object, recording a learning result corresponding to the learning object when a learner utilizes the learning object to process a learning operation, and obtaining an analytical result for the learner according to the learning result and a learning principle, wherein the identification tag is utilized to recognize characteristics of the learning object. | 04-02-2015 |
20150093729 | BIOMETRIC-MUSIC INTERACTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - A system and method for the automatic, procedural generation of musical content in relation to biometric data. The systems and methods use a user's device, such as a cell phone to capture image data of a body part, and derive a biometric signal from the image data. The biometric signal includes biometric parameters, which are used by a music generation engine to generate music. The music generation can also be based on user-specific data and quality data related to the biometric detection process. | 04-02-2015 |
20150093730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SEARCH DRIVEN, VISUAL ATTENTION TASK FOR ENHANCING COGNITION - A method and apparatus for enhancing a cognitive ability of a user is disclosed, which may comprise: conducting, via a user interface display of a user computing device, a training session which may comprise: presenting, via the user interface display of the user computing device, a plurality of objects having at least two identifying parameters, at least two of the plurality of objects having the same at least two identifying parameters forming at least one group of objects having the same at least two identifying parameters and at least one of the objects having at least one unique identifying parameter thereby not duplicating the identifying parameters of the at least two objects in the at least one group of objects; and allowing the user, via the user interface display of the user computing device, to select an object as a proposed unique object. | 04-02-2015 |
20150093731 | NATURAL ORIENTATION INDUCTION TOOL APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus for training learning disabled subjects, such as autistic children, induces sound waves into a body of a user through two paths, one heard by the ears through air and the other through a liquid or solid in contact with tissues, such as skin and skeleton on the back of a user, below the collar and centered across the vertical axis of the spine. Two transducers produce waves in the audible sound spectrum, repeat persistently, and provide a tone about a location on which the subject may focus attention. A controller and actuator adhered to the skin by an adhesive gel pad against the back of a wearer. The sound, repeating (after a selected delay), decaying, and seeming to originate above and behind the head of a wearer is a waveform becomes a focus; effective to orient a subject, who lacks natural, self-orientation. | 04-02-2015 |
20150099250 | PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM - Systems and methods for online assisted pre-intervention or “prevention” are described. A prevention system may provide the ability to initiate a prevention campaign in order to create a customized support forum for persons who may be afflicted by a harmful addiction. The prevention system can receive a request to initiate a campaign for a recipient from a host and facilitate the invitation of other participants to the campaign. Knowledge-based questionnaires may be dynamically generated for the host and participants, and a profile built for the recipient based on received responses. Customized messages may be generated by the prevention system using expert knowledge-based rules, and delivered to the recipient. The messages may be unique to the recipient based on the recipient's circumstances and relationship to the host and participants. Support services provided by the prevention system encourage the recipient to agree to accept help and provide action plan recommendations. | 04-09-2015 |
20150104769 | LOCATION-BASED INCENTIVES IN EDUCATION - The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for providing incentives for students to participate in educational opportunities. | 04-16-2015 |
20150104770 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED INCENTIVE-BASED HEALTH SUPPORT - Systems and methods for creating a personalized health program are disclosed. The systems and methods may use a personalization engine to accept health data and condition specific actions and to output a list of at least one personalized action. The personalized actions may help patients in creating and sustaining behaviors to help improve health and productivity and lower healthcare costs. Such personalized health programs may use incentives to make such programs more effective. | 04-16-2015 |
20150104771 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND TRAINING ATTENTION ALLOCATION - A method and a system for monitoring and training attention allocation by applying at least one sensory stimulus over a human subject, using at least one stimulation device, where the sensory stimuli is associated with at least one attentional bias; measuring at least one attention allocation index of the subject by measuring response of the subject to the respective applied sensory stimulus; and outputting an attentional feedback indicative of the measured attention allocation indices. The feedback is outputted in real time or near real time, using one or more output devices for outputting the attention allocation feedback such as visual or auditory output devices. | 04-16-2015 |
20150111185 | INTERACTIVE EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION DOLL - An interactive emotion communication doll used to evaluate the behavioral health of a child. One embodiment of the present invention can include a substantially humanoid figure defining a continuous exterior surface, wherein the figure further includes a substantially hollow interior, a plurality of receiving sites fixedly attached to the exterior surface of the figure, a plurality of removably attachable indicia sized and configured to selectively engage the receiving sites of the exterior surface of the figure, and a storage compartment for housing the plurality of removably attachable indicia. Another embodiment might include a battery operated RFID tracking system, including a RFID reader embedded in the interior of figure capable of reading RFID tags, having unique identifiers, embedded in the plurality of removably attachable indicia, to be used to track, calculate and evaluate data obtained using the RFID tracking system and therefore better assess the behavior health needs of a child. | 04-23-2015 |
20150111186 | TOOL FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TRAINING - A tool for physical and mental training, includes a central body to which a plurality of peripheral bodies of variable characteristics are connected via slidable connection rods in such a way that the distance between the individual components, and hence the structure of the tool itself, are variable at will. | 04-23-2015 |
20150111187 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CLIENT ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM TO ASSIST A CLIENT IN THE COMPLIANCE OF ADDICTION TREATMENT - A method is provided for providing a client engagement platform to assist a client in the compliance of addiction treatment. The method is implemented in a central system programmed to execute the method. The method comprises storing, in the central system, a schedule in which one or more designated check-in times are associated with one or more client daily activities and receiving, by the central system, a client check-in. | 04-23-2015 |
20150118662 | Process to promote healthy behaviors through motivation using mobile messaging and geofencing technologies - Provided is a mobile health and wellness motivational system in which users specify times and/or locations where they know they will need help with lifestyle challenges. Using the smartphone's clock and geo-fencing technologies, a motivational message arrives at the specified time and/or location. Highly personalized, this system provides motivation in the form of text, photo, video, music or launched text or call; using inspiration, deterrent, tips or distraction at the specified time and/or location that the motivation is needed. | 04-30-2015 |
20150118663 | System and Method for Predicting and Communicating Data Relating to a Partner's Mood and Sensitivity - A system, method, and computer application is presented for predicting a partner's mood and communicating the partner's mood to a user. Particularly, the invention include identifying a partner profile which comprises a plurality of partner data provided by the user, wherein the user and the partner are involved in a relationship (preferably a romantic relationship) with one another. Further, the invention includes performing a mood evaluation, by the processor, of at least a portion of the partner data in order to predict the partner's mood at a specified current or future time. A suggestion evaluation may also be performed which is structured to identify certain data in the partner's profile (e.g., mood, menstruation cycle, like and dislikes, etc.) and generate and communicate a suggestion, advice or tip to the user in order to further facilitate the development of the romantic relationship. | 04-30-2015 |
20150118664 | HUMAN MEMORY CHUNK CAPACITY TEST - Several methods are used to better define and optimize item sets for short-term memory tests with respect to chunkiness and homogeneity, including dynamically changing the test item set to make it have as few chunkable items as possible. A resulting item set allows the test taker to see in an intuitive way how her or his memory has a limited capacity of, typically, three non-chunkable items. The test can be done, inter alia, via computer, via the telephone, and via robocalling. It can, inter alia, provide mass screening for Alzheimer's disease and detect early Alzheimer's disease in drug trials. | 04-30-2015 |
20150118665 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANTICIPATING ACTIVITY - A system for anticipating activity includes an apparatus for anticipating activity. The apparatus includes an activity anticipation module that anticipates an activity based on an archive. The archive includes historical information associated with past activity. The apparatus also includes an encouragement module that provides encouragement for the activity. The encouragement is based on the archive and the activity. | 04-30-2015 |
20150118666 | Toilet Training Doll for Children - Disclosed is a toilet training aid for children. The device comprises a doll having a microphone, a sound recognition processing module, a memory, and a speaker imbedded therein. The sound recognition processing module is adapted to detect a clapping sound or a flushing sound. When either of the clapping sound or the flushing sound is detected through the microphone, a pre-recorded message recording is played through the speaker. The pre-recorded message recording verbally encourages the child and rewards the child for a successful completion of a toilet training experience. In one embodiment, the doll may resemble a princess, and in another embodiment, the doll may resemble a pirate. The doll further includes a clip that may be used to mount the doll onto a toilet tank or on a doll stand. | 04-30-2015 |
20150118667 | AUTOMATED LIFELOGGING TO IDENTIFY, MONITOR, AND HELP ACHIEVE USER GOALS - A user's activities are automatically logged as they are passively sensed by the user's mobile devices. Patterns of activities or changes in those patterns can be used to identify goals, and users can tell the logging system about other goals directly. The goals may be complex goals having many activities that may contribute to accomplishing the goal. Examples of complex goals include improving health, reducing carbon footprint, and saving money. Progress is monitored toward the user's goal over time. Suggestions are made to the user for how to make progress toward identified goals at times in the user's schedule where a degree of flexibility is available. The suggestions may be based on activities that worked for other people with similar profiles to the user (e.g., in terms of goal, schedule, characteristics, likes/dislikes, stage of change, motivation level, etc.). | 04-30-2015 |
20150118668 | ADAPTIVE INTERFACE FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING DEVICES - Systems and methods that continuously adapt aspects of a continuous monitoring device based on collected information to provide an individually tailored configuration are described. The adaptations may include adapting the user interface, the alerting, the motivational messages, the training, and the like. Such adaptation can allow a patient to more readily identify and understand the information provided by/via the device. | 04-30-2015 |
20150132729 | System and method for a Reducing Recidivism - This invention describes a journaling and graphing application that easily collects thoughts, data and feelings and relates them to a support community and flexible calendar. The application then presents data relating to events, challenges, and attitudes as either conducive to recovery, or antithetical to recovery and encourages good behavior through feedback, notifications and game dynamics. The application is comprised of six primary feature sets—journaling, community networking, polling and alerting, gamification, care paradigm and feedback. The system uses and co-occurrence and correlation of events over time to establish a predictive analysis of outcomes and to flag good and bad influences. | 05-14-2015 |
20150132730 | SENSOR MEMORY KITS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING MEMORY - A kit for improving or stimulating a human's memory comprises a set of sensible materials for the human to sense and a set of instructions for using the kit. The set of instructions comprises the steps of: (a) presenting the human with a material from a set of sensible materials; (b) instructing the human to sense the material; (c) instructing the human to identify the material; (d) recording the responses; (e) eliciting from the human at least a memory associated with the material; (f) recording the memory elicited in step (e); (g) instructing the human to sense the same material that the human is instructed to sense in the step (b); and (h) instructing the human to identify the material the human is instructed to sense in the step (g). | 05-14-2015 |
20150140527 | Providing Interventions by Leveraging Popular Computer Resources - A computer system is described for providing intervention suggestion information to a user, for the purpose of changing a psychological state of the user. The information suggestion information identifies at least one recommended intervention, selected from a pool of candidate interventions. Each candidate intervention, in turn, involves a type of computer-related activity with which the user is likely already familiar. The computer system formulates the intervention suggestion information in the form of one or more messages, delivered to one or more user devices, such as a mobile user device, or a mobile user device in conjunction with an ambient presentation device. According to one optional aspect, the computer system chooses the recommended interventions based on context information. According to another aspect, the computer system selects interventions by adopting a particular balance between an exploitation mode and an exploration mode. | 05-21-2015 |
20150140528 | METHOD, ARRANGEMENT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENHANCING COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF A USER - Method, arrangement and computer program in a noise generator ( | 05-21-2015 |
20150140529 | INTERACTIVE COGNITIVE-MULTISENSORY INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING, PROFILING, TRAINING, AND/OR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF ATHLETES AND OTHER POPULATIONS - A cognitive/multisensory stimulation system simulates sports scenarios during real sports actions for assessing, profiling, training, or improving performance of athletes or other populations. Cognitive/multisensory training can be provided by: establishing with an athlete a sensory semantic language for relating a number of sensory signals to corresponding possible actions, the sensory semantic language being essentially new to the athlete; instructing the athlete to perform an athletic exercise involving skills and full body movement; providing during exercise sensory signals to the athlete to require rapid discernment by the athlete of the semantic meaning of the sensory signal to correctly chose one possible action; and determining whether the athlete correctly responds to the selected sensory signal during said exercise. | 05-21-2015 |
20150140530 | SUBJECTIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS - A system and related method for the electronic processing of text onto a two-dimensional coordinate system to analyze the attitudinal mindset associated with the text. The system and related method may also be employed to generate text based on a desired attitudinal mindset to impart. The system includes a computer system embodying functions that enable a user to analyze the text. The system includes one or more functions to parse attitudinal words and objective words and associate two-dimensional coordinates with the subjective words. The system further includes one or more functions for mapping the associated two-dimensional coordinates to show the geographic locations of each attitudinal word of the text in relation to each other attitudinal word of the text. The system decomposes attitudinal words into attitudinal equivalence and reference category and enables the generation of a report of the mindset associated with the analyzed text. | 05-21-2015 |
20150147731 | Shifting visual attention between multiple video displays to train attention and memory - An apparatus comprising an electronic control device capable of sending commands to play, stop and pause the media content, at least 2 devices capable of playing and pausing the media content in communication with electronic control device and at least 2 devices capable of displaying the media content. A method of memory and attention training comprising the pausing the media content on all displays, except one that is randomly chosen. | 05-28-2015 |
20150147732 | Method For Achieving Positive Mental Outlook For Wholesome And Better Living - A system and method to follow for sound body and mind consisting of four steps that are followed over a four week period. Each week comprises a different focus and after the allotted time period the user has completed the method. The system focuses on the wellness of body, mind and spirit and the connection between both physical and mental wellbeing as well as the local community a person may live in through engaging in outreach or community service related programs. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294577 | NEUROPERFORMANCE - Methods of promoting searching, pattern recognition and sensory motor selection in a subject including the steps of: selecting a first number of open-bigram terms as target terms and a second number of open-bigram terms as distractor terms, both from any class and all having the same spatial and time perceptual related attributes, arranging the open-bigrams terms in a matrix format in a number of arrays, selecting one or more sectors in the matrix where the target terms replace an equal number of distractor terms; providing the subject with the arranged matrix along with a ruler displaying a predefined alphabetic letters sequence; prompting the subject to search, recognize, and select all of the target terms within a first predefined period of time; and displaying correctly identified target terms with a changed spatial or time perceptual related attribute. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294583 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND PRESENTING HEALTH, WELLNESS AND FITNESS DATA WITH FEEDBACK AND COACHING ENGINE AND ACTIVITY AND PATTERN DETECTION - A nutrition and activity management system is disclosed that monitors energy expenditure of an individual through the use of a body-mounted sensing apparatus. The apparatus is particularly adapted for continuous wear. The system is also adaptable or applicable to measuring a number of other physiological parameters and reporting the same and derivations of such parameters. A weight management embodiment is directed to achieving an optimum or preselected energy balance between calories consumed and energy expended by the user. An adaptable computerized nutritional tracking system is utilized to obtain data regarding food consumed, Relevant and predictive feedback is provided to the user regarding the mutual effect of the user's energy expenditure, food consumption and other measured or derived or manually input physiological contextual parameters upon progress toward said goal. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294584 | NEUROPERFORMANCE - Methods of promoting fluid intelligence abilities in a subject including the steps of: selecting one or more serial orders of open-bigram terms from a predefined library of open-bigram sequences, providing the subject with further selected one or more incomplete serial orders of open-bigram terms; prompting the subject to reason in order to sensory motor manipulate open-bigram terms or to reason in order to sensorially discriminate differences or sameness between two or more of incomplete open-bigram sequences; determining whether the subject correctly sensory motor manipulated the open-bigram terms or sensorially discriminated differences or sameness; and displaying the correct sensory motor manipulations or sensorially discriminated differences or sameness with at least one different spatial or time perceptual related attribute to highlight the correct answer. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294585 | NEUROPERFORMANCE - Methods of promoting fluid intelligence abilities in a subject including the steps of: selecting one or more serial orders of open-bigram terms from a predefined library of complete open-bigram sequences, providing the subject with a further selected one or more incomplete serial orders of different open-bigram terms from the selected one or more serial orders; prompting the subject to sensorially discriminate and sensory motor insert one or more missing open-bigram terms in the one or more incomplete serial orders of open-bigram terms to form one or more completed alphabetical serial orders of open-bigram terms; determining whether the subject correctly sensorially discriminated and sensory motor inserted the open-bigram terms; and displaying the correct sensorially discriminated and sensory motor inserted open-bigram terms with at least one different spatial and/or time perceptual related attribute to highlight the correct open-bigram term answers. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294586 | NEUROPERFORMANCE - Methods of promoting fluid reasoning ability in a subject including the steps of: selecting a letters sequence from a predefined library of letters sequences, providing the subject with the letters sequence and a ruler displaying a selected complete open proto-bigram sequence with the same spatial and time perceptual related attributes; asking the subject to reason in order to solve a selected serial order of letters exercise by searching within the letters sequence to judge if any two letters can or cannot form an open proto-bigram term according to predefined instructions; prompting the subject to sensory motor select, with predefined means, two recognized letters that can or cannot form an open proto-bigram term; determining whether the subject correctly sensory motor selected the letters; and displaying the correctly sensory motor selected open proto-bigram terms, with at least one different spatial or time perceptual related attribute to highlight the correct sensory motor selection. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294587 | NEUROPERFORMANCE - Methods of promoting reasoning ability in a subject by performing a local or a non-local compression of a provided letters sequence when removing one or more contiguous letters located in between the two letters of an assigned open proto-bigram recognized by the subject in the provided letters sequence, and by performing an alphabetic expansion of an assigned open proto-bigram term by explicitly actualizing a collective critical space of the assigned open proto-bigram term by inserting the corresponding incomplete alphabetic letters sequence in between the two letters of an assigned open proto-bigram. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294588 | Neuroperformance - Methods of promoting fluid intelligence abilities in a subject are described herein. In particular, exemplary exercises are directed at the following: sensorially perceptually discriminating embedded relational open proto-bigrams (ROPB) in predefined alphabetic arrays; inserting missing different or same type ROPBs in predefined alphabetic arrays; sensorially perceptually discriminating and sensory motor selecting embedded same or different type ROPBs in predefined stand-alone alphabetic arrays or in predefined stand-alone alphabetic arrays as part of a sentence or figurative speech type sentence; and sensorially perceptually discriminating and sensory motor selecting embedded ROPBs in selected affixes contained within predefined alphabetic arrays. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294589 | Neuroperformance - Methods of promoting fluid intelligence abilities in a subject are described herein. In particular, exemplary exercises are directed at the serial sensory motor insertion of letters of selected alphabetic arrays, which are words that may or may not contain embedded relational open proto-bigrams (ROPB), into a predefined incomplete alphabetic set array. Correctly sensory motor inserted letters and embedded ROPBs are highlighted for the sensorial perceptual discrimination of the subject in the selected alphabetic set array and the selected alphabetic arrays by displaying the same with at least one changed spatial and/or time perceptual related attribute. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294590 | NEUROPERFORMANCE - Methods of promoting fluid intelligence abilities in a subject are described herein. Exemplary exercises are directed to sensorially perceptually discriminating between orthographic numerical name label value representations and the corresponding symbolic graphical digit value representations in predefined ascending or descending sequential orders. The subject is further required to sensorially perceptually discriminate whether any relational open proto-bigrams (ROPB) are embedded in the selected orthographic numerical name label value representations. Correctly sensory motor selected orthographic numerical name label value representations, including any embedded ROPBs, and corresponding symbolic graphical digit value representations are highlighted by displaying the same with at least one changed spatial and/or time perceptual related attribute. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294591 | NEUROPERFORMANCE - Methods of promoting fluid intelligence abilities in a subject are described herein. In particular, exemplary exercises are directed at sensorially perceptually searching and discriminating one or more similarities between the serial order of letters in non-word name label groups, belonging to a relational category represented by a preselected relational non-word name label, and one or more word name labels from a group of words. Correctly sensory motor selected word name labels are highlighted to the subject by displaying the same with at least one changed spatial and/or time perceptual related attribute. Embedded relational open proto-bigrams are further highlighted in the correctly selected word name labels by at least one additional changed spatial and/or time perceptual related attribute. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302535 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VISUALIZING COMPETENCY BASED LEARNING DATA IN DECISION MAKING DASHBOARDS - A method and system for visualizing competency based learning data in decision making dashboards, including a database system that integrates all relevant data about a learner's past learning events transformed and aligned using a defined competency model; a process for recommending future learning opportunities based upon a learner's current competency based performance and identifying future learning events the learner would need to fulfill for a specific competency; creating and graphically displaying a learner's performance on a competency model and presenting future learning opportunities to the learner, and a learner dashboard interface usable by the learner to view their past competency based learning records and suggestions for future learning opportunities. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT RESULTS - Printed material, systems, media, and methods for displaying personality assessment results using a modified SDI® Triangle which comprises three sides of equal length, three vertices, three axis lines, seven demarcated MVS regions representing seven well states into which a person is classifiable and covering an entire area of the triangle, and thirteen CS regions representing thirteen conflict states into which a person is classifiable and also covering the entire area of the triangle so as to overlap with the MVS regions. The MVS regions may comprise a hexagon-shaped MVS Hub region in a center of the triangle and six MVS regions surrounding the MVS Hub region. Similarly, the CS regions may comprise a hexagon-shaped CS Hub region in the center of the triangle and twelve CS regions surrounding the hexagon-shaped CS Hub region. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SEARCH DRIVEN, VISUAL ATTENTION TASK FOR ENHANCING COGNITION - A method and apparatus for enhancing a cognitive ability of a user is disclosed, which may comprise: conducting, via a user interface display of a user computing device, a training session which may comprise: presenting, via the user interface display of the user computing device, a plurality of objects having at least two identifying parameters, at least two of the plurality of objects having the same at least two identifying parameters forming at least one group of objects having the same at least two identifying parameters and at least one of the objects having at least one unique identifying parameter thereby not duplicating the identifying parameters of the at least two objects in the at least one group of objects; and allowing the user, via the user interface display of the user computing device, to select an object as a proposed unique object. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302761 | MANAGING HEALTH AND FITNESS USING SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS - Technology is disclosed for managing health and fitness using a social networking application (“the technology”). The technology provides a social networking application (“app”) that allows a player to select and/or formulate a particular “Track” which indicates a positive trait, and to invite other users to acknowledge/encourage the progress of the player on the chosen Track. The player accumulates rewards, e.g., points, when another user acknowledges the progress of the player. When the rewards reach a threshold, the player is said to have achieved the goal of the Track, thereby improving his fitness. The player can share the Track and the activities performed towards implementing the Track with other users via a “TrackChat” with other users. The other user can decide whether the activities are inline with achieving the goal of the track and if so, acknowledge them, thereby helping the player to earn rewards. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302764 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFY, TREATMENT AND WEANING FROM INTERNET AND COMPUTER ADDICTION - Self controlled method and system for identified, treatment and weaning from computer and Internet addiction. On one embodiment of the invention, the system analyzed user activity on the computer and while surfing the Internet, and presents results of his addictive level visually on user's interface. Supporting the whole information of addictive level to the user, give him the power to fight against the phenomena and prevent to increase it. | 10-22-2015 |
20150306491 | UNIVERSAL LEARNING SYSTEM - A universal game board, game board kit and teaching tool method is provided. The game board is versatile, inexpensive, and easy to modify into a number of different configurations. Teachers use the board as a learning tool, which can be adapted for academic, social and/or cultural activities. The game board is designed to be a motivating learning tool that allows students to interact during academic and social skill development, or may be used for drill-and-practice to supplement a curriculum. The universal game board is comprised of a base with a plurality of tabs sized and shaped to form compartments to receive cards. The cards can be arranged and rearranged on in different configurations. Different games are played on the game board depending on the configuration of the cards. A lid is placed on top of the base, tabs and cards to secure the cards in place for the duration of a game. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310760 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SMOKING CESSATION - A system and method for smoking cessation is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of smoking events and cravings from a user through an electronic device, transmitting to the electronic device one or more queries for each of the plurality of smoking events, each of the one or more queries prompting the user to enter information related to each smoking event, receiving the information related to each smoking event from the electronic device, generating a user smoking event metrics based at least in part on the information, and evaluating the user smoking event metrics against a plurality of smoking cessation badge conditions, each smoking cessation badge condition identifying a smoking cessation badge. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310761 | TEACHING AND PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL METHOD AND ELEMENT: FUTTDAM - FUTTDAM is a psycho-educational learning method that includes elements suitable for its application, generally consisting of a board and tiles, comprising exercises of increasing complexity, and that, under a ludic appearance, develops—intrinsically or in a combined way—aspects of logical, strategic and tactical thinking, specific to various team and sport activities (football, handball, basketball, hockey, and others). It also contains an element of chance and uncertainty, applicable to both normal, disabled and with special educational needs individuals, thus facilitating social integration and employment. | 10-29-2015 |
20150325136 | CONTEXT-AWARE ASSISTANT - Methods, systems, and computer program products that inform the user as to how best to speak or otherwise interact with others in a particular social context. Sensors may be used to capture information about a user's surroundings in near real time. This information represents contextual inputs that may be used to identify the particular social context. Once the context is identified, one or more behavioral recommendations may be generated, particular to this context, and provided to the user. In an embodiment, a determination of behavioral recommendations may also be informed by the user's input of a persona which he wishes to express in this context. | 11-12-2015 |
20150325137 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A COGNITIVE TRAINING PROGRAM - A method for managing intervention activities for chronic progressive neurodegenerative conditions that enhance neurophysiological processes of a client includes receiving a client for evaluation and determining a first level of functioning in each of a plurality of cognitive and non-cognitive areas. The method also includes iteratively, determining a program of intervention activities associated with the cognitive and non-cognitive areas based on at least one of the first level of functioning and a generated report of a performance of the intervention activities, the program of intervention activities including one or more intervention activities selected from a plurality of intervention activities, administering the program of intervention activities to the client, and generating a report of a performance of the administered program of intervention activities. The method further includes reporting a progress of the client over time with respect to the performance of the administered program of intervention activities. | 11-12-2015 |
20150325139 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING REHABILITATION OF BRAIN-DAMAGED PATIENT - An apparatus that supports a rehabilitation of a brain-damaged patient, including a patient condition analyzer configured to generate a patient condition scenario about a brain condition of a patient based on brain-related information of the patient, a network model determiner configured to determine a network model to be applied to the patient using the patient condition scenario, and a rehabilitation model generator configured to generate a rehabilitation model to be applied to the patient based on the determined network model. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327802 | EVALUATION APPARATUS FOR MENTAL STATE OF HUMAN BEING - An evaluation apparatus evaluates the relationship between multiple subjects in communication between the subjects. A non-verbal information measurement unit measures non-verbal information respectively obtained for the multiple subjects, and quantifies the non-verbal information so as to generate first signals each configured as a time-series signal. A waveform analyzing unit generates second signals for the respective subjects, each configured as a value that relates to a feature configured as non-verbal information rhythm with respect to the corresponding one of the subjects. A relationship evaluation unit generates a third signal configured as an index that represents a mental state with respect to the relationship between the multiple subjects, based on a relative relationship between the multiple second signals that correspond to the respective subjects. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339935 | PEERED PROCTORING - Systems and methods described herein utilize a distributed server network to allow for the real-time distribution of copies of a data stream uploaded from a computing device. The uploaded data stream corresponds to an environment surrounding a user (exam taker) of the computing device during execution of a testing routine for an examination. Providing copies of the data stream in real-time allows proctors as well as other test assessment authorities to ‘peek in on the exam taker's environment during the exam. As a result, the environment surrounding the exam taker can be monitored in real-time to determine whether any visual or audio activity in the environment constitutes activity not in accordance with the exam protocol. Following an affirmative determination that the exam taker violated an exam taking protocol, a proctor or other test assessment authority can then make a final or early decision regarding disciplinary action. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339946 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND PRESENTING HEALTH, WELLNESS AND FITNESS TREND DATA HAVING USER SELECTABLE PARAMETERS - A nutrition and activity management system is disclosed that monitors energy expenditure of an individual through the use of a body-mounted sensing apparatus. The apparatus is particularly adapted for continuous wear. The system is also adaptable or applicable to measuring a number of other physiological parameters and reporting the same and derivations of such parameters. A weight management embodiment is directed to achieving an optimum or preselected energy balance between calories consumed and energy expended by the user. An adaptable computerized nutritional tracking system is utilized to obtain data regarding food consumed, Relevant and predictive feedback is provided to the user regarding the mutual effect of the user's energy expenditure, food consumption and other measured or derived or manually input physiological contextual parameters upon progress toward said goal. | 11-26-2015 |
20150342511 | OPERATING SYSTEM WITH COLOR-BASED HEALTH STATE THEMES - Techniques for implementing a platform configured to interact with a plurality of applications on a computing device to provide health information of an individual. The platform may be implemented by receiving information representative of a health state of an individual. The information may be provided by a sensor associated with the individual and provide data indicating the individual's physiological and/or emotional state. An indication of the individual's health state may be generated by selecting a value from a set of values representative of different health states. The indication may be provided through a programming interface to one or more applications. An application may provide context information associated with the individual at a time associated with the individual's health state, and the context information may be used to generate the indication. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356876 | EMOTION REGULATION SYSTEM AND REGULATION METHOD THEREOF - An emotion regulation system and a regulation method thereof are disclosed. A physiological emotion processing device of the emotion regulation system comprises an emotion feature processing unit and a physiological emotion analyzing unit. The emotion feature processing unit outputs a physiological feature signal according to a physiological signal generated by a user listening to a first music signal. The physiological emotion analyzing unit analyzes the user's physiological emotion according to the physiological feature signal and generates a physiological emotion state signal. A music feature processing unit of a musical emotion processing device obtains corresponding music feature signals from music signals. A music emotion analyzing processing unit analyzes the music feature signals to obtain musical emotions of the music signals and outputs a corresponding second music signal to the user according to the physiological emotion state signal and a target emotion. | 12-10-2015 |
20150359993 | Bathroom Performance System - The present invention is a device removably mounted on or within the vicinity of a bathroom toilet configured to assist paruretics with performance and a method for using the same. The device includes a housing enclosing a detection assembly therein having a motion sensor, a microprocessor, and a speaker system having a digital-to-analog converter, an amplifier and a speaker. The motion sensor is configured to detect a presence of a user within a general vicinity, wherein detection of the presence of a user prompts the motion sensor to transmit a digital signal to the microprocessor. Upon receipt of the digital signal, the microprocessor is configured to retrieve a digital recording file from a computer storage and transmit the digital recording file to the speaker system to drive the speaker. The digital recording file includes a continuous sound to alleviate stress of a user and promote bathroom performance. | 12-17-2015 |
20150364048 | Talk Bracelet and Bonding System - A bracelet is provided having a thematic set of charms that are signatures of ages in the life of a young woman. Each of the charms corresponds to a chapter in a bonding book that initiate a new stage in a girl's life. This book is utilized to assist a mother and daughter overcome any emotional difficulty in the problematic growth process so common in the complex modern world. Various discussion topics are provided therein for each year followed by corresponding final mother daughter signature pages. | 12-17-2015 |
20150366497 | DEVICE-INDEPENDENT NEUROLOGICAL MONITORING SYSTEM - A system that analyzes neurological signals is described. During operation, the system monitors neurological signals from users at multiple locations, where the neurological signals are associated with different electrode configurations. Then, the system modifies the monitored neurological signals to correct for the different electrode configurations so that a resulting set of modified neurological signals corresponds to a common electrode configuration, thereby facilitating subsequent identification of a subset of the set of modified neurological signals. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379877 | System and Methods for Neuropsychological Assessment - A hiding board includes a flat surface; and a plurality of containers arranged in a random fashion on the flat surface and secured thereto, each container being configured to receive a three-dimensional object from a user. A method for neuropsychological assessment includes presenting one or more three-dimensional objects to a participant in a first arrangement on a hiding board; removing the one or more three-dimensional objects from the hiding board; re-presenting the one or more three-dimensional objects to the participant in an arrangement that is different from the first arrangement; and tasking the participant with recreating the first arrangement. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379880 | DEVICE FOR TRAINING BEHAVIOR - A wearable or other portable device in the form of a module, bracelet, necklace, anklet, ring, watchband, part of watchband, necklace, or part of a garment, is worn or carried by a user in order to assist in behavioral training and subconscious learning of a user. The device produces one or more stimuli: for example, it may display words on an LED screen, emit a sound, shine a light, vibrate, induce a warming or cooling sensation, or induce an electric stimulus. The user may control the device's operation by manually administering stimuli via the device, via a remote control, or the user may choose or create a program through which the device automatically produces stimuli in response to particular criteria detected by the device or another computer linked to the device. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379888 | ONLINE PERSONALITY TESTING PROVIDING INDIVIDUAL CONTEXTUAL ASSESSMENTS IN A SECURE INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT - A computerized method and computer-executable instructions for assessing personality and temperament characteristics of a registered user by a centralized computing device. The method includes providing a first user interface with at least two color elements for the user to sort in a “most like me” to “least like me” order. Upon receiving the user's sort order, the user is provided a second user interface with at least one word grouping, each word grouping having an associated life context, and the user indicates “most like me” to “least like me” in the word groupings. Upon receiving those results, the method then determine a contextual assessment based on the user's selection, with the assessment being weighted on the basis of the user's color element sort. In some embodiments, a temperament assessment service with a published API executes on a server, with access to the service requiring a user's unique API key. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379891 | Coaching and training system and method for integrated monitoring, managing, supporting, scheduling and prompting of clients - An integrated system and method to permit coaches, trainers and other life enhancement entities and individuals to monitor, manage, support, schedule, prompt and otherwise motivate clients to achieve set goals, establish new goals and continue routines during times of non-personal interaction between the coach, trainer or enhancement entity or person and the client. | 12-31-2015 |
20160005320 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR BRAIN EXERCISE TRAINING - A computer-implemented method of directing mental exercise includes providing, by a first output component, a stimulus representing an imagined perception, experience or activity that a user should attempt to generate in their mind; providing, by a second output component, an instruction for the user to perform a mental exercise that includes instructing the user to generate an internal felt sense of the imagined perception, experience or activity; receiving, at a user interface, an input that characterizes the user's internal felt sense, where the input includes an overt response from the user; determining, by a processing module, an attribute of the received input; determining, by the processing module and based on the determined attribute, a next instruction; storing at least one of the determined attribute and the determined next instruction in one or more memory locations; and training the user, including presenting the determined attribute, and providing the next instruction. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005322 | Method And Computer Algorithm to Determine A User's Mental Agility, Memory and Emotional State Based on Recreational Media Content And Game Play - A computerized system to determine and predict the mental agility and mood of a user by compiling a list of questions based on recently viewed and or listened to recreational media content. Comparing the user's responses with their peer group and the user's historical record enables the system to determine a deviation in mental agility and or emotional state. Deviation from the expected response indicates a change in the user's mood or mental state. Alerts may be sent when these deviations are detected. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012747 | System and Method for Cognitive and Sensory Stimulation | 01-14-2016 |
20160015306 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN INDIVIDUAL'S PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE - The present invention relates to the field of psychology and medicine and can be used for determination the psyche type of an individual with higher reliability of determination of the results. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019801 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING PRESENTATION SKILLS - A system and method for improving social and presentation skills of persons with a social communication disorder such as Autism. Social anxiety or a lack of confidence, the method including: rendering and displaying on a display device a presentation script for an oral presentation to be made by a user; monitoring eye movement of the user during the oral presentation to measure a user's pupil movement and/or a user's gaze direction; displaying an indicia on a separate display screen and/or an upper portion of the display device; periodically displaying within the presentation script a visual prompt to cue the user to look at the indicia; measuring eye movement using eye tracking software and/or an eye tracking device, at occurrence of the visual prompt; and evaluating whether the user made eye contact with the indicia when prompted. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019813 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING AND TREATING INDIVIDUALS WITH SENSORY PROCESSING CONDITIONS - Aspects of the invention relate to methods and systems for monitoring and treating 200 individuals with sensory processing issues (e.g., individuals with autism). In some embodiments, methods involve measurement of environmental conditions (e.g., sound, light, location, time of day, air quality, odors, radiation, magnetic field strength, temperature, humidity, pollutants, etc.) that are sensory inputs affecting an individual's ability to perform tasks and behave in a desired way; implementing interventions based on the measured conditions to help the individual improve performance and behavior; monitoring the extent of improvement resulting from the interventions; and modifying the interventions based on the extent of improvement. Systems configured for carrying out the methods are also provided. | 01-21-2016 |
20160022200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INTELLIGENT GOAL RECOMMENDATION FOR ACTIVITY LEVEL USING EARPHONES WITH BIOMETRIC SENSORS - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a user an intelligent goal recommendation for an activity level using earphones with biometric sensors. In one embodiment, the system includes earphones, including: speakers; a processor; a heartrate sensor electrically coupled to the processor; and a motion sensor electrically coupled to the processor. In this embodiment, the system also includes a memory coupled to a processor and having instructions stored that, when executed by the processor: monitor a movement of a user based on signals generated by the motion sensor; determine an activity score of the user based on the monitored movement of the user; detect a fatigue level of the user based on signals generated by the heart rate sensor; and display on a display an activity level recommendation based on the user's activity score, detected fatigue level, and a stored archive including historical information about the user's movement and fatigue level. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027322 | COGNITIVE-SKILLS TRAINING SYSTEM - A cognitive-skills training system and method, having a user interface configured to receive input information from a user via a user computing device in communication with the system, a game engine in communication with the user interface and configured to perform one or more cognitive-skills activities and games on the user using the input information received from the user, an engine application programming interface corresponding to the game engine and configured to provide an application platform for performance of the cognitive-skills games and activities via the game engine, and a processor in communication with the game engine, and configured to receive and process data from the game engine. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027323 | CHILD DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - Methods and systems are disclosed for a child development platform that helps parents understand, track, and improve their child's development, in some embodiments using principles related to game mechanics. According to one embodiment, a user may access the services of the platform via an application on a network-connected device. Available services include a game implementing a core loop for facilitating child development. The core loop may include receiving various cards such as challenge cards, information, cards and assessment cards and completing tasks associated with the received cards. Results may be continuously gathered and presented to parents to better inform and facilitate their child's development. | 01-28-2016 |
20160029693 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE SOFTWARE CLINICAL SMOKING CESSATION PLATFORM - The object of the present invention is to provide a system and method to enable a person wishing to quit smoking to carry with him a smoking cessation device that will assist the user in behavior modification, and in particular curbing and dealing with nicotine cravings. The current invention makes use of widely available and familiar infrastructure of hand held devices such as cellular phones and cellular networks. Other mobile devices having digital displays may also be used such as mobile touchscreens (i.e. Ipad, Kindle, etc.) digital music players such as the iPod and other similar devices. Smoking cessation and craving reduction are achieved through coordinated messaging reinforcement coupled with craving reduction training including controlled deep breathing exercises prompted by the device. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035230 | ASSESSING A USER'S ENGAGEMENT WITH DIGITAL RESOURCES - An engagement index reflects a user's level of engagement with a digital resource. Actions of the user, such as the amount of time spent on a page, the number of pages accessed, the amount of time spent in a session, and the number and type of annotations made may be used as factors in the determination of the engagement index. A graphical user interface includes a display portion that displays information based on one or more engagement indexes. The display portion can include a chart with data points representing average engagement indexes. The graphical user interface can also include an input portion to receive an input identifying one of the data points. In response to an input identifying a data point, the display portion of the graphical user interface is updated to show the engagement indexes used to compute the average engagement index at the identified data point. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035247 | VISUAL FEEDBACK GENERATION IN TRACING A PATTERN - Systems and methods include generating visual feedback from a traced pattern that is completed by an individual using a multi-touch device. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to displaying a previously generated pattern by a user interface of the multi-touch device to the individual for the individual to trace. The traced pattern generated from continuously tracing the previously generated pattern by the individual from an initial point on the previously generated pattern to an end point on the previously generated pattern is received via the user interface of the multi-touch device. Visual feedback is generated via the user interface that translates motion-based behavior data associated with the traced pattern to a visible depiction of the motion-based behavior data. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042142 | FITNESS MONITORING DEVICE WITH USER ENGAGEMENT METRIC FUNCTIONALITY - Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for interacting with a user to promote engagement with a fitness monitoring device configured to measure a fitness parameter of the user, which may include determining, by one or more processors in at least one of the fitness monitoring device or a device in communication with the fitness monitoring device, that user engagements with the fitness monitoring device have occurred on multiple occasions, in which each user engagement produces at least one measurement of the fitness parameter; receiving, by the one or more processors, information indicating a level of engagement metric for the user based, at least in part, on multiple detected the multiple user engagements with the fitness monitoring device; and generating, by the one or more processors and based on the level of engagement metric, a notification containing information relating to at least a level of user engagement with the fitness monitoring device or the fitness parameter. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042648 | EMOTION FEEDBACK BASED TRAINING AND PERSONALIZATION SYSTEM FOR AIDING USER PERFORMANCE IN INTERACTIVE PRESENTATIONS - The present invention relates to a system and method for implementing an assistive emotional companion for a user, wherein the system is designed for capturing emotional as well as performance feedback of a participant participating in an interactive session either with a system or with a presenter participant and utilizing such feedback to adaptively customize subsequent parts of the interactive session in an iterative manner. The interactive presentation can either be a live person talking and/or presenting in person, or a streaming video in an interactive chat session, and an interactive session can be a video gaming activity, an interactive simulation, an entertainment software, an adaptive education training system, or the like. The physiological responses measured will be a combination of facial expression analysis, and voice expression analysis. Optionally, other signals such as camera based heart rate and/or touch based skin conductance may be included in certain embodiments. | 02-11-2016 |
20160055758 | DELIVERING TO A USER A BIOMETRIC DISPLAY THAT COMMUNICATES HEALTH AND FITNESS PERFORMANCE RELATED INFORMATION ABOUT THE USER - The instant application describes a method for delivering to a user a biometric display containing a graphic representation of the user that communicates health related information about the user. The method includes steps of receiving via a communication network information associated with physical characteristics of the user and health related information associated with the user and generating a biometric display of the user based on the received physical characteristics associated with the user. The biometric display represents a virtual persona of the user tailored toward the received physical characteristics associated with the user. The method also includes steps of generating health parameters based on the received health related information associated with the user and associating the health parameters with their respective body parts on the biometric display. The health parameters communicate to the user health related information regarding their respective body part on the biometric display. The method also includes a step of delivering to the user via the communication network the biometric display along with the associative health parameters. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055760 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING HEALTH & LIFESTYLE OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL - A system and method is disclosed for generating health and lifestyle related observations and recommendations for a user, based on information collected from the user. The system and method of the present invention is configured to accept user inputs that include activity, physical, biological, environmental, subjective, goal, real-time and historical user information, inputted directly into the system, or via a third party integration. Invention references aggregated information across users and from additional sources, and generates relevant recommendations and observations, based on the system's computational methods applied to the user's inputs. The system and method considers the user's goals and system default goals in the generation of recommendations. The system and method allows for the data and generated observations and recommendations to be outputted within the system's user experience, or to a third party. | 02-25-2016 |
20160060027 | System and Apparatus for Waste Disposal and Changing Infant-Toddler Behavior - A diaper pail having a top chamber with top transparent doors, and a transparent outer casing, allowing a user to see the rotating inner barrel as it spins within the transparent outer casing. The inner barrel holds a disposable bag and as it rotates the inner barrel untwists a neck of bag, thus opens the bag for a dirty diaper to fall into the bag from the top chamber. The dirty diaper falls into the bag while the doors of the top chamber remain shut, keeping malodorous gas from escaping. The visual spectacles provided by this diaper pail also act to change infant and toddler behavior by associating diaper change to a fun and fascinating event. | 03-03-2016 |
20160060028 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR WASTE DISPOSAL AND CHANGING INFANT-TODDLER BEHAVIOR - A diaper pail having a top chamber with top transparent doors, and a transparent outer casing, allowing a user to see the rotating inner barrel as it spins within the transparent outer casing. The inner barrel holds a disposable bag and as it rotates the inner barrel untwists the neck of the bag, thus opening the bag for a soiled diaper to fall into the bag from the top chamber, and then the bag returns to its original twisted closed configuration. The soiled diaper falls into the bag while the doors of the top chamber remain shut, keeping malodorous gas from escaping. The visual spectacles provided by this diaper pail also act to change infant and toddler behavior by associating diaper change with a fun and fascinating event. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063874 | EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - A digital personal assistant is described that determines a mental or emotional state of a user based on one or more signals and, based on the determined mental or emotional state, provides the user with feedback concerning an item of content generated thereby or an activity to be conducted thereby. An API is described that can be used by diverse applications and/or services to communicate with the digital personal assistant for the purpose of obtaining information about the current mental or emotional state of the user. Content tagging logic is described that identifies one or more items of content generated or interacted with by the user and stores metadata in association with the identified item(s) of content. The metadata includes information indicative of the current mental or emotional state of the user during the time period when the user generated or interacted with the content. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063890 | METHOD FOR TRAINING BEHAVIOR - A wearable or other portable device in the form of a module, bracelet, anklet, ring, watchband, part of watchband, necklace, or part of a garment, is worn or carried by a user in order to assist in behavioral training of a user. The device produces one or more stimuli: for example, it may display words on an LED screen, emit a sound, shine a light, vibrate, induce a warming or cooling sensation, or induce a shock. The user may control the device's operation by manually administering stimuli via the device, or the user may choose or create a program through which the device automatically produces stimuli in response to particular criteria detected by the device or another computer linked to the device. A method for behavioral reinforcement involving use of the device. | 03-03-2016 |
20160066838 | METHODS FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING, TRAINING, EXERCISE AND REGULATION - A computer assisted method for treating pain in a subject comprising measuring activity of one or more internal voxels of a brain of said subject associated with pain; communicating instructions to said subject which modulate activity of said voxel; and training said subject to control said internal voxel. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078771 | MULTI-VIEW LEARNING IN DETECTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL STATES - Systems and methods for using multi-view learning to leverage highly informative, high-cost, psychophysiological data collected in a laboratory setting, to improve post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) screening in the field, where only less-informative, low-cost, speech data are available. Partial least squares (PLS) methods can be used to learn a bilinear factor model, which projects speech and EEG responses onto latent spaces, where the covariance between the projections is maximized. The systems and methods use a speech representation based on a combination of audio and language descriptors extracted from spoken responses to open-ended questions. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078777 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND SOFT LOCKING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic apparatus and a soft locking method thereof are provided. The method is adapted for at least one electronic apparatus. In the method, the at least one electronic apparatus is added to a group and an event is created for the at least one electronic apparatus to participate in. Next, a specific operation performed on each electronic apparatus is detected and a time that all of the at least one electronic apparatus does not detect the specific operation is accumulated. When any one of the at least one electronic apparatus detects the specific operation, the event is suspended and a suspension message is distributed. When the accumulated time reaches a predetermined value, a reward is sent to the at least one electronic apparatus participating in the event. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078781 | Systems and Methods for Incentivizing Healthy Behavioral Changes with Evidence-Based Techniques and Tangible Rewards - Systems and methods for incentivizing healthy behaviors and behavioral choices, and monitoring health behaviors, are provided. The present invention requests information for a user, evaluating the user's current health, and requiring the user to choose behaviors to modify through incentives. The behaviors are incentivized by implementing proven token economy concepts to reward desired behavioral choices and reward avoidance of undesired behavioral choices. The present invention provides suitable positive health choices. The rewards provided are tangible real-world rewards with monetary value. The systems and methods reinforce continued use by a user and lead to positive behavioral change. | 03-17-2016 |
20160081607 | SPORADIC COLLECTION WITH MOBILE AFFECT DATA - An individual can exhibit one or more mental states when reacting to a stimulus. A camera or other monitoring device can be used to collect, on an intermittent basis, mental state data including facial data. The mental state data can be interpolated between the intermittent collecting. The facial data can be obtained from a series of images of the individual where the images are captured intermittently. A second face can be identified, and the first face and the second face can be tracked. | 03-24-2016 |
20160093226 | IDENTIFICATION AND ALTERING OF USER ROUTINES - A computerized method includes identifying a first routine of a first user and determining an alteration for the first routine. The alteration can be determined based at least in part on a second routine, where the second routine corresponds to a second user. In addition, or instead, the determining may be based at least in part on generating and selecting one or more alterations and/or selecting one or more enumerated alterations for the first routine. The first routine can be simulated with the alteration to predict a first performance score with respect to multiple future iterations of at least the altered first routine. The alteration may be selected for the first routine based on the prediction of the first performance score and a second performance score with respect to at least the unaltered first routine. The selected alteration for the first routine may be presented to the first user. | 03-31-2016 |
20160093231 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT FOR TRAINING NON-COGNITIVE ABILITY OF USER BY USING USER DEVICE - Provided is a method of providing content for training a user's non-cognitive ability by using a user device, which includes acquiring user information of the user, performing user authentication based on the acquired user information, when the authentication succeeds, selecting one of a short-term training mode and a long-term training mode based on a user input and displaying at least one content according to the selected mode, and when the authentication fails, acquiring again updated user information. In this case, the at least one content is variably displayed according to the biometric information of the user. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098592 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING INVISIBLE HUMAN EMOTION - A system and method for emotion detection and more specifically to an image-capture based system and method for detecting invisible and genuine emotions felt by an individual. The system provides a remote and non-invasive approach by which to detect invisible emotion with a high confidence. The system enables monitoring of hemoglobin concentration changes by optical imaging and related detection systems. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098931 | SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A BEHAVIORAL ROUTINE - A system comprises a plurality of card units. The card units have a first side, a second side, a hole being positioned proximate a top of the card unit, and dimensions for resting on a palm of a user. The card units have indicia on the first sides and the second sides. The indicia is configured to convey behavioral messages to the user. The card units have a texture applied to at least a one of the sides. The texture is configured to convey a tactile stimulation to the user. A ring device retains the card units in an order. The ring device passes through the holes the card units, wherein the ring device enables the user to flip through the card units and receive the behavioral messages for assisting the user in establishing a routine. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD BY MEANS OF MOBILE DEVICES TO STIMULATE BRAIN'S WORK - The object of solution, accordingly to the invention, is a method and system which use mobile devices for stimulating the brain, characterized with having three logic types of components/sections: information section, wherein the system information part consists of a functional components in the form of administrative panel containing information management, knowledge panel that enables looking through the system's published content and its presentation, newsletter. This newsletter is responsible for handling the subscription process, advertising module, the department of exercise, realizing automatic and interactive exercises, training and lessons divided into 4 subgroups: mnemonic exercises, logical, computational, visual, and independent internal learning module, a database—data collection department and the effects of exercise, containing components: a knowledge base module, the module pseudownioskowania based on user profiles, and manages user accounts and statistics department and assessments. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098934 | CONCUSSION REHABILITATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A cognitive/multisensory stimulation system simulates real sports action/job task scenarios for assessing, profiling, practicing, improving or rehabilitating cognitive function performance of athletes or individuals. Cognitive function improvement can be provided by: establishing with a subject a sensory semantic language for relating a number of sensory signals to corresponding possible actions, the sensory semantic language being essentially new to the subject; instructing the athlete to perform an task involving sport/job skills; providing to the subject during the task sensory signals requiring rapid discernment by the subject of the semantic meaning of the sensory signal to correctly chose one possible action; and determining whether the subject correctly responds to the selected sensory signal during the task; obtaining a cognitive-sensor reaction-time map over a visual field of the subject; and repeating the steps over multiple repeated tasks using selectively randomized sensory signals selected to progressively restore the cognitive-sensor reaction-time map a normal profile. | 04-07-2016 |
20160104385 | BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION AND ANALYSIS DEVICE AND METHODS EMPLOYED THEREOF - Exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure are directed towards behavior recognition and analysis device and methods employed thereof The device including one or more capturing units configured to capture behavior recognition movements of students accompanied in a specified area to detect emotions expresses by each individual student. The expressed motions detected based on the plurality of facial features collected from the students. One or more physical activity monitoring units configured to monitor bodily movements for determining a temporary state of mind of the each individual student accompanied in the specified area, an emotion extraction unit extracts the data conveyed by the respective emotions expressed by the students and recognize a specific student expressing an emotion by comparing the predetermined data collected from. the students and the image capturing unit by an image recognition unit to provide an emotional quotient and academic impact report of each individual student to the user. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104389 | Child's Manipulative for Home and Classroom Behavior Support - A device suitable to provide sensory stimulation to children is described. The device may be portable or fixed to a child's school desk or may similarly be used in the home, public areas or otherwise, primarily of cloth construction which provides a variety of tactile and sensory stimuli suitable to help the child to maintain appropriate social or classroom behavior under a variety of local circumstances, such as when the holder is stressed or during transition periods in classrooms. The device is suitable for use from infancy to adulthood to meet the needs of users for whom tactile stimulation can provide attention redirection. | 04-14-2016 |
20160106380 | APPARATUS FOR USE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY AND METHOD OF PERFORMANCE - An apparatus for use in the conduct of cognitive behaviour therapy comprises a surround vision system, sets of recorded scenes each set relating to the same theme, each set representing a different level of difficulty to the individual receiving therapy in dealing with the theme; a controller for controlling the displaying images of a set on the screens of the surround vision system; and a command device. The command device is adapted to communicate with the controller and is used by a person overseeing the delivery of therapy to the individual or by the individual receiving therapy for controlling the display of scenes on the surround vision apparatus. | 04-21-2016 |
20160111012 | COMPUTING METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH DETACHED SENSOR IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - One embodiment includes a computer-implemented method and system in a network environment using at least a display and a detached sensor. Another embodiment includes a computer-implemented system helping a user learn using a detached imaging sensor. In yet another embodiment, a computer-implemented system monitors automatically more than once a user's behavior while the user is working on materials. Through monitoring the user's voluntary or involuntary behavior, the system determines what to present by the display. The presentation could include providing rewards, punishments, stimulation, and other materials. The system can also react by asking the user a question. Based on the user's response, the system may change to more appropriate materials, or different presentation styles. | 04-21-2016 |
20160111015 | System and method for emotional relief - A computer program product and method for mental health treatment. A sequence of operations are performed on a patient, including guiding a patient to an area of the mind needing treatment. The area of the mind needing treatment is then softened to facilitate acceptance of the disorder. One or more emotional traumas (ET) are isolated along with one or more emotional malnourishments (EM). The ETs and EMs are then resolved, thereby forming resolutions. The resolutions are protected, i.e. the emotional signal is prevented from reactivating. Next, positive reinforcement history of maladaptive coping behaviors (PRHx) is treated and protected, wherein, as a practical application of the operations, maladaptive emotions of said patient are neutralized. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117937 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BIOMETRIC AND CONTEXT BASED MESSAGING - A system suitable for generating messages based on biometric and contextual data and methods for making and using the same. One or more sensors can be used to measure biometric and/or contextual data. The measured data are analyzed using behavior analytics to capture behavior of a selected user. The behavior is analyzed with messaging analytics to generate personalized messages related to the behavior. The message preferably is personalized at at least one level, such as time, place and format of message delivery, content of the message, and tone of the message. The message personalization can further adapt to changes in the user's behavior and/or preferences. Thereby, the method and system advantageously can provide biometric and context based messaging for motivating healthy behavior. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117938 | TASK ASSISTANCE BASED ON COGNITIVE STATE - Embodiments relate to providing task assistance. One aspect includes collecting sensor data from a sensor that is communicatively coupled to a computer device, and receiving inputs from a user of the device. The inputs are directed to implementation of tasks via applications operated on the device. Another aspect includes determining a cognitive state of the user from the sensor data and the inputs for each of the tasks performed and calculating a normative cognitive state of the user that is represented as a value within a range of values. A further aspect includes selecting a task assist function responsive to initiation of a task by the user at the device. The task assist function is selected based on a deviation of a value representing a current determined cognitive state from the normative cognitive state value. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117948 | TASK ASSISTANCE BASED ON COGNITIVE STATE - Embodiments relate to providing task assistance. One aspect includes collecting sensor data from a sensor that is communicatively coupled to a computer device, and receiving inputs from a user of the device. The inputs are directed to implementation of tasks via applications operated on the device. Another aspect includes determining a cognitive state of the user from the sensor data and the inputs for each of the tasks performed and calculating a normative cognitive state of the user that is represented as a value within a range of values. A further aspect includes selecting a task assist function responsive to initiation of a task by the user at the device. The task assist function is selected based on a deviation of a value representing a current determined cognitive state from the normative cognitive state value. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117949 | FUNCTIONAL LEARNING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - A device, system, and method that supplement learning and cognitive skills in individuals, such as children or adults, with neurodevelopmental learning disorders or age-related cognitive decline. More specifically, the disclosed invention relates to a whole body fitness program and Bluetooth-enabled glasses to integrate motion, motor-sensory learning, and vision to change the brain's neuronal pathways and make learning and cognitive skills easier. | 04-28-2016 |
20160125747 | Discovery of Incentive Effectiveness - Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method that includes compiling, for each of a plurality of individuals, health-related data in a plurality of categories, determining that a given individual has a particular type of health-related data in a particular set of one or more categories, and based on the determination that the given individual has the particular type of health-related data in the particular set of one or more categories, transmitting from a server device to a client device associated with the given individual, over a communication network, a first instruction configured to cause the client device to present a first incentive designed to cause a change in the given individual's health-related data. The first incentive may make use of a first type of motivational foundation. The method may also include determining whether the first incentive was effective or ineffective. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125748 | Memory test for Alzheimer's disease - A method for assessing cognitive function in a subject uses a computer having a display, a response sensor and a microprocessor and includes the step of using the display to present to the subject a plurality of items to be analyzed by the subject. The items presented to the subject are intermixed with other of the items being tested for recognition. The method also includes the step of having the subject activate the response sensor after the subject has looked at the display and has recognized the presented items from memory. The subject is tested to determine if the subject recognizes each of the items as meeting a specific criterion. The method further includes the step of using the microprocessor to determine the subject's accuracy and his response speed to each of the recognized items. The response speed for each of the recognized items is the time required between when the subject is shown an item and when the subject correctly responds that he recognizes the item. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125756 | Method for motivating students to receive high grades - A method motivating students to receive high grades by providing the students with points which can be used by them to obtain products offered by businesses. The method allow teachers to verify the grades of the students. The method allow students, parents, teachers and businesses to communicate with each other. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125758 | ASSESSING COGNITIVE FUNCTION USING A MULTI-TOUCH DEVICE - Systems and methods include assessing cognitive function of the individual as the individual engages cognitive exercises using a multi-touch device. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to engaging the individual with the cognitive exercise via a user interface of the multi-touch device so that the individual implements a plurality of cognitive skills when engaging the cognitive exercise. Cognitive responses generated by the individual when engaging the cognitive exercise are received via the user interface of the multi-touch device. The cognitive data generated from the cognitive responses are analyzed to determine an assessment of the cognitive function associated with the individual. A cognitive function score is then determined from the assessment of the cognitive function associated with the individual in which the cognitive function score is representative of the cognitive function of the individual. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125759 | CONDITIONED RESPONSE TOILET TRAINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Provided herein are various conditioned response toilet training systems and methods. The various embodiments described herein include components for detecting elimination events reliably and quickly; notifying caregivers of these elimination events; conditioning children such that a specific cue or set of cues becomes associated with the act of elimination; training one or more caregivers to learn the behavioral antecedents and overall elimination patterns of the child; predicting elimination events so that caregivers may be prospectively notified of a likely elimination; and training children to communicate their elimination needs to caregivers. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125760 | Controlled Resources Based on Good Behavior - Computing system resources are controlled based on the behavioral attributes associated with users of the computing system. These behavioral attributes are monitored in real time and through a historical log, and behavioral attributes that fall outside pre-determined preferred behavioral parameters are detected. Access by the computing system user to computing system resources contained in a preferred and habitually accessed computing system resource set associated with the computing system user are adjusted in response to the detection of the behavioral attribute outside the pre-determined preferred behavioral parameters. | 05-05-2016 |
20160128617 | SOCIAL CUING BASED ON IN-CONTEXT OBSERVATION - System and techniques for social cuing based on in-context observation are described herein. A plurality of context attributes about a user and a subject may be received. A period in which an interpersonal interaction between the user and the subject occurs may be determined. A social-interaction-emotional-state may be determined during the period from the plurality of context attributes using a pre-defined classification methodology. A feedback response may be generated based on the determined social-interaction-emotional-state. The feedback may be presented to the user. | 05-12-2016 |
20160133151 | MODULAR WEARABLE DEVICE FOR CONVEYING AFFECTIVE STATE - A wearable device conveys information to a user. The device includes a master soft circuit cell and a plurality of actuation soft circuit cells. These cells are physically interconnected to form a garment that is worn by a user and each of these cells includes an electrically non-conductive fabric covering. Each of the actuation cells is electrically connected to and operates under the control of the master cell. The master cell is configured to wirelessly receive actuation instructions and activate a combination of the actuation cells based on the received actuation instructions. Each of the actuation cells is configured to generate a particular actuation that is perceived by one or more senses of the user whenever the actuation cell is activated by the master cell. A system also conveys affective state information to a user. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140320 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING THERAPY TO AN INDIVIDUAL - A method and system for providing therapy to an individual, the method comprising: transmitting a log of use dataset associated with communication behavior of the individual during a time period; receiving a supplementary dataset characterizing mobility of the individual in association with the time period; generating a survey dataset upon retrieving responses provided by the individual to at least one of a set of surveys, associated with a set of time points of the time period; generating a predictive model from a passive dataset derived from the log of use dataset and the supplementary dataset and the survey dataset; generating a report summarizing a mental health state of the individual, associated with at least a portion of the time period, from the passive dataset, the survey dataset, and an output of the predictive model; and rendering information from the report to a coach associated with the individual. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140856 | Method and Apparatus to Encourage Development of Long Term Recollections of Given Episodes - These teachings are applicable for use with an individual who faces problems with respect to forming new long term memories. Generally speaking, pursuant to these various embodiments, one automatically captures ( | 05-19-2016 |
20160140860 | Certification Implemented with Adult Learning Techniques - An interactive software tool is used to obtain informed acceptance of compliance criteria. The subject is presented with a series of instructional formats in the form of a series of instructional scenarios. These instructional scenarios require concept-based interpretive activity to demonstrate an understanding of the compliance criterion. If the subject responds incorrectly, a subsequent scenario is presented that demonstrates a second application of the compliance criterion. If the subject fails to demonstrate his/her understanding after the second scenario, a flag is triggered. This flag alerts the prescriber or pharmacy to personally engage with the individual to help him/her understand and comprehend the subject matter, which the individual to failed to understand. This prompts engagement and interaction with the patient that might not otherwise occur. Upon completion of the active response at a predetermined level of accuracy, an indication of successful comprehension or understanding of the relevant concepts is provided. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140864 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BINGE EATING DISORDERS - Systems, methods, devices, and applications for managing a binge eating disorder (BED). A smartphone and server application may be provided for monitoring and treating BED. Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) may be used for automated and/or manual acquisition of data related to triggers associated with BED. Risk factors may be captured in real-time to provide data to both patients and clinicians. For manual data acquisition, the user may be prompted to input emotional states, urges to binge, eating behavior, and binge episodes. For automated acquisition, time, place (e.g. via GPS), medicine adherence, and physical activity may be recorded. The user may be provided with alerts and/or interventions when it is determined that they are at risk of binging. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147966 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING MULTI-HIERARCHY EVENT ALARM ACCORDING USER RESPONSE - Provided is a computing apparatus for performing an alarm processing by managing a plurality of events related to at least one of health information and Korean medicine mibyeong information based on a hierarchical structure, the apparatus including a database configured to store the plurality of events in a hierarchical structure, a hierarchical information manager configured to manage a first identifier indicating a current event hierarchy identifier adjusted by applying a user feedback on an event alarm provided in advance, and a processor configured to provide a first event related to the first identifier among the plurality of events, wherein the plurality of events is stored in the hierarchical structure such that an event index, an event hierarchy identifier, and an event description are related to one another for each of the events. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148523 | Standardized Electronic Performance Impairment Analyzer - The present invention is an apparatus and method for quantifying an individual's level of impairment, whether due to infirmity, substance use or mental state. This is performed through a test which measures a test subject ability to perform hand-eye activity tasks over a period of time and relating those results to a blood alcohol content equivalence table. The results of the test, along with the test subject's identifying data are then secured and uploaded to a secure database. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148529 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING PERSONALITY TRAITS - A system for improving personality traits is provided. The system includes at least one processor configured to provide an option to a user for selecting at least one personality trait from a plurality of personality traits. The processor is also configured to suggest at least one alternate personality trait for selection based on the personality trait selected by the user, and allow selection of at least one of the suggested alternate personality traits or proceed with the earlier selection. The processor is further configured to suggest one or more actions based on the personality trait selected by the user, wherein the action is to cause an improvement in the selected personality trait of the user. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING OVERCOMING OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR - A method generating a questionnaire to facilitate overcoming addictive behavior by a client includes generating a series of questionnaires to be presented to the client. The questionnaires are designed to facilitate self-modification of a client behavior. Generating each questionnaire includes obtaining a response by the client to a previously presented questionnaire of the series of questionnaires. The client is automatically evaluated with respect to a change component in accordance with the obtained response and in accordance with responses of other clients to questionnaires that were previously presented to those other clients. The questionnaire is automatically generated in accordance with the evaluation with respect to the change component and in accordance with a self-modification of the client's behavior that is facilitative of overcoming the addictive behavior, the generated questionnaire being designed to facilitate the self-modification. The generated questionnaire is presented to the client. | 05-26-2016 |
20160155350 | System and method for identifying and modifying behavior | 06-02-2016 |
20160155352 | VIRTUAL COUNSELING PRACTICE | 06-02-2016 |
20160155353 | NEUROPLASTICITY GAMES FOR ADDICTION | 06-02-2016 |
20160155354 | NEUROPLASTICITY GAMES FOR SOCIAL COGNITION DISORDERS | 06-02-2016 |
20160155355 | NEUROPLASTICITY GAMES | 06-02-2016 |
20160163220 | Awareness Enhancement Mechanism - A mechanism is described to facilitate dynamic selection of avatars according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes acquiring sensory data, processing the sensory data to detect and identify one or more surrounding objects of which a user should be made aware, determining a relevance of the one or more objects and to prioritize relevant objects as events and providing feedback based on the events. | 06-09-2016 |
20160163223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ENABLE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS - A system to enable pursuit of happiness is provided. The system includes one or more processors configured to provide a user with options in a sequence. The sequence of options comprises option to select at least one weak personality trait to be worked on, option to select at least one weak relationship to be worked on, wherein the option to select the at least one weak relationship is recommended after recommending the option to select the at least one weak personality trait, and option to select happiness as a trait to be worked on, wherein the option to select happiness as a trait is recommended after recommending the option to select the at least one weak relationship. | 06-09-2016 |
20160165701 | NIGHT LIGHT FOR REDUCING NIGHTTIME FEARS - Disclosed is a fear-reducing device including a light for providing illumination in a dark room occupied by a person and including a controller for controlling the light output levels of the light. The light has variable lumen output levels in response to light control signals from the controller for helping overcome night-fear of the person. The control unit automatically reduces the output levels over a tapering period of time extending for multiple weeks. The control unit automatically reduces the output levels over a dimming period for each day of the tapering period. The controller is remote from the light and communicates with the light with wireless communication. | 06-09-2016 |
20160166191 | PROCESS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EVALUATING PSYCHOLOGICAL STATUS | 06-16-2016 |
20160174703 | STOWABLE SENSORY LEARNING ASSEMBLY | 06-23-2016 |
20160174889 | Smartphone text analyses | 06-23-2016 |
20160180722 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELF-LEARNING, CONTENT-AWARE AFFECT RECOGNITION | 06-23-2016 |
20160180735 | COACHING A PARTICIPANT IN A CONVERSATION | 06-23-2016 |
20160180737 | COACHING A PARTICIPANT IN A CONVERSATION | 06-23-2016 |
20160180738 | Life Experiences Engine | 06-23-2016 |
20160189563 | EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WITH REAL TIME BEHAVIOR TRACKING - A computer program product for capturing real time behavior patterns of individual students to track the students progress and development of his/her true potential, the computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable storage medium having computer readable program embodied therein, the computer readable program code configured to: a first interface with the layout of a classroom and students; a second interface with attendance indicators; a third interface with academic indicators; and a fourth interface with behavior indicators; wherein the second interface, third interface and fourth interface are in communication with the first interface such that the real time behavior patterns of the attendance, academic and behavior indicators of the individual students in the classroom are captured and complex output of the real time behavior patterns is generated to track the students progress. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196758 | HUMAN PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION AND TRAINING METHODS AND SYSTEMS | 07-07-2016 |
20160196765 | System and method for attention training using electroencephalography (EEG) based neurofeedback and motion-based feedback | 07-07-2016 |
20160203729 | DYNAMIC INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | 07-14-2016 |
20160203730 | SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING A SECURE PARENT/CHILD ATTACHMENT BOND | 07-14-2016 |
20160250516 | Personal Activity Tracking System | 09-01-2016 |
20160253910 | System and Method for Computer Guided Interaction on a Cognitive Prosthetic Device for Users with Cognitive Disabilities | 09-01-2016 |
20160253917 | Interactive Cognitive-Multisensory Interface Apparatus and Methods for Assessing, Profiling, Training, and Improving Performance of Athletes and other Populations | 09-01-2016 |
20160253918 | ENCOURAGING ACHIEVEMENT OF HEALTH GOALS | 09-01-2016 |
20160253920 | Toilet Training Assembly | 09-01-2016 |
20160374600 | Methods and Systems for Assisting Persons, Product Providers and/or Service Providers - A method of assisting daily living for an individual, comprising the steps of measuring a presence and/or concentration of one or more measuring a presence or biomarkers in a sample from the individual; predicting a behavior or emotional state of the individual based on the measured presence and/or concentration of the one or more biomarkers by applying a correlation between human biological phenotype and human behavioral and/or emotional phenotype; and altering the living environment of the individual or providing information, advice or guidance to the individual based on the predicted behavior or emotional state of the individual, where the correlation between human biological phenotype and human behavioral and/or emotional phenotype comprises a correlation between the one or more biomarkers and a behavior or emotional state. A system for assisting daily living for an individual is also provided. The present invention is useful for product and service providers and industries for purposes of standardizing or rating product quality and efficacy, and/or for promotion and selling purposes. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379505 | MENTAL STATE EVENT SIGNATURE USAGE - Mental state event signatures are used to assess how members of a specific social group react to various stimuli such as video advertisements. The likelihood that a video will go viral is computed based on mental state event signatures. Automated facial expression analysis is utilized to determine an emotional response curve for viewers of a video. The emotional response curve is used to derive a virality probability index for the video. The virality probability index is an indicator of the propensity to go viral for a given video. The emotional response curves are processed according to various demographic criteria in order to account for cultural differences amongst various demographic groups and geographic regions. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379506 | SCENT PRESENTATION METHOD, SCENT PRESENTATION APPARATUS, AND OLFACTION IMPROVING APPARATUS - A scent presentation method is provided that includes generating a random number, determining a presentation condition based on the generated random number, and presenting a scent through pulse ejection based on the determined presentation condition. | 12-29-2016 |
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20180025656 | SEQUENCE OF CONTEXTS WEARABLE | 01-25-2018 |
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