Context dependent reactions derived from observed human responses

• US 10,152,117 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2014
• Issued: 12/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Li, Hong, Wouhaybi, Rita H., Tatourian, Igor
• Primary Examiner(s): Bendidi, Rachid
• Application Number:
  US14/454,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20160039097A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,587 Days
• Field of Search: 700245, 700246, 901 1, 901 47
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 11/0005 Manipulators having means for high-level communication with users, e.g. speech generator, face recognition means
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/1679 characterised by the tasks executed
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/39219 Trajectory tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/40026 Juggling, tennis playing, throw and catch
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00

Abstract

Computer-readable storage media, apparatuses, and methods associated with context dependent reactions derived from human responses are disclosed herein. An apparatus may, in some embodiments, include a communication module and a reaction agent. The reaction agent may be configured to transmit, via the communication module, a request to a remote data source. The request may include context data indicative of an operational context of the apparatus. The reaction agent may receive, in response to the request, via the communication module, reaction data for the apparatus to react to the operational context. In embodiments, the reaction data may be derived from previous observations of human response to a context similar to the operational context indicated by the context data of the request. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed herein.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

one or more computing processors;

physical memory coupled with the one or more processors;

a communication module, to be loaded into the physical memory and executed by the one or more processors, to communicate with a remote data source, wherein the communication module is to;

receive or transmit data between the apparatus and the remote data source; and

a reaction agent module, to be loaded into the physical memory and executed by the one or more processors, to;

transmit, via the communication module, a request to the remote data source, wherein the request is to include context data indicative of an operational context of the apparatus and data associated with the apparatus that identifies one or more capabilities of the apparatus;

receive, in response to the request, via the communication module, reaction data for the apparatus to react to the operational context, wherein the reaction data is derived from a plurality of reaction records based upon previous observations of responses of a plurality of humans to a context similar to the operational context indicated by the context data of the request and wherein the reaction data received is based, at least in part, on the capability data; and

cause the apparatus to carry out one or more actions.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reaction data includes data concerning one or more actions associated with the previously observed human responses.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the reaction data is previously recorded by one or more wearable sensing devices worn by the plurality of humans.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the one or more actions include movements of the human recorded by the one or more wearable sensing devices.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the reaction data recorded by the one or more wearable sensing devices include data of one or more of finger movement, hand movement, arm movement, head movement, eye movement, torso movement, hip movement, leg movement, or vocal pitch.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more capabilities are associated with possible movements of the apparatus.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is a robot.

8. A computer-based method for implementing an apparatus, the method comprising:

transmitting, by a reaction agent of the apparatus, a request to a remote data source, wherein the request includes context data indicative of an operational context of the apparatus and data associated with the apparatus that identifies one or more capabilities of the apparatus;

receiving, by the reaction agent, reaction data for the apparatus to utilize in reacting to the operational context, wherein the reaction data is derived from previous observations of responses of a plurality of humans to a context similar to the operational context indicated by the context data of the request and wherein the reaction data received is based, at least in part, on the capability data; and

causing the apparatus to carry out one or more actions based at least on the reaction data and the operational context.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the reaction data includes data concerning one or more actions associated with the previously observed human responses and further includes causing, by the reaction agent, the apparatus to carry out the one or more actions.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein at least a portion of the reaction data is previously recorded by one or more wearable sensing devices worn by the plurality of humans.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more actions include movements of the plurality of humans recorded by the one or more wearable sensing devices.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the reaction data recorded by the one or more wearable sensing devices include data of one or more of finger movement, hand movement, arm movement, head movement, eye movement, torso movement, hip movement, leg movement, or vocal pitch.

13. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, wherein the plurality of instructions, in response to execution by a processor of an apparatus, cause the apparatus to:

transmit a request to a remote data source, wherein the request includes context data indicative of an operational context of the apparatus and data associated with the apparatus that identifies one or more capabilities of the apparatus;

receive, in response to the request, reaction data to be utilized in reacting to the operational context, wherein the reaction data is derived from previous observations of responses of a plurality of humans to a context similar to the operational context indicated by the context data of the request and wherein the reaction data received is based, at least in part, on the capability data; and

cause the apparatus to carry out one or more actions based at least on the reaction data and the operational context.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13, wherein the reaction data includes data concerning one or more actions associated with the previously observed human responses, and wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the apparatus to carry out the one or more actions.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein at least a portion of the reaction data is previously recorded by one or more wearable sensing devices worn by a human.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15, wherein the one or more actions include movements of the plurality of humans recorded by the one or more wearable sensing devices.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15, wherein the reaction data recorded by the one or more wearable sensing devices include data of one or more of finger movement, hand movement, arm movement, head movement, eye movement, torso movement, hip movement, leg movement, or vocal pitch.

18. A system comprising:

one or more wearable sensing devices to be worn by a plurality of humans to observe human responses and to generate sensing data representative of the human responses; and

a server communicatively coupled with the sensing devices that includes;

a storage device to store a plurality of reaction records, wherein each of the plurality of reaction records contains reaction data derived from the generated sensing data of the plurality of observed human responses from the plurality of humans, the responses correlated with a context; and

a reaction engine, coupled with the storage device, to provide reaction data of one or more of the plurality of reaction records, in response to a request from a remote apparatus that contains context data indicative of an operational context of the remote apparatus and one or more capabilities of the remote apparatus to enable the remote apparatus to mimic human response.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein to provide reaction data further comprises:

identification of one or more reaction records of the plurality of reaction records, correlated with a context similar to the context data contained within the request; and

transmission, to the remote apparatus, of reaction data contained within the one or more reaction records.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the reaction engine is further to:

receive, from the one or more wearable sensing devices, new reaction data indicative of a new human response associated with a context in which the new human response occurred; and

add the new reaction data to the reaction records to enable provision of the new reaction data in response to a request for reaction data containing context data similar to the context associated with the new reaction data.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein to add the new reaction data to the reaction records is to normalize the new reaction data with reaction data contained within the reaction records.

22. The system of claim 18, wherein to mimic human response is to carry out one or more actions that include movements of the human recorded by the one or more wearable sensing devices.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the reaction data recorded by the one or more wearable sensing devices include data of one or more of finger movement, hand movement, arm movement, head movement, eye movement, torso movement, hip movement, leg movement, or vocal pitch.