System and method for mood contextual data output

• US 20040082839A1
• Filed: 10/25/2002
• Published: 04/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gateway Incorporated (Acer, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Gateway Incorporated (Acer, Inc.)
• Inventors: Haugen, Kenneth J.
• Application Number:
  US10/280,343
• Publication Number:
  US 20040082839A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a system and method for mood contextual data output. A method for providing mood contextual output from a user of an information handling system may include inferring a mood of a user based on biometric data collected while the user enters data on an information handling system. An output of data is affected based on the monitored user'"'"'s mood.

Claims

1. A method for providing mood contextual output from an information handling system, comprising the steps of:

inferring a mood of a user while the user operates an information handling system; and

affecting an output of data based on the inferred mood.

2. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the display of data corresponds to the data entered by the user on the information handling system.

3. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the inferred mood is an emotion the user feels at a particular time the user operates the information handling system.

4. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the mood of the user is inferred from the user'"'"'s biometric data.

5. The method as described in claim 4, wherein the mood of the user is inferred from at least one of user body orientation, user body temperature, user body rhythm, user skim conductivity, user heart rate, user breathing, user brain waves and user voice stress.

6. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the mood of the user is inferred from how data is entered by the user on the information handling system.

7. The method as described in claim 6, wherein how data is entered includes at least one of rhythm of data entry, intensity of data entry and sped of data entry.

8. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the mood of the user is inferred from the data entered by the user on the information handling system.

9. The method as described in claim 7, wherein the mood is inferred from at least one of user entered words, words mistyped by the user and frequency of misspelling by the user.

10. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising the step of comparing an inferred mood to a generated reference mood.

11. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the user operates the information handling system through audio means.

12. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the affected display of data includes at least one of audio and tactile data.

13. A system for providing mood contextual output of data, comprising:

a memory for storing a program of instructions;

input device for receiving data entered by a user;

an output device for outputting a display of data; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the input device and the output device, wherein the program of instructions configures the processor to;

infer a mood of a user while the user uses the input device; and

affect a display of data by the output device based on the inferred mood, the display of data including the data entered by the user utilizing the input device.

14. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the inferred mood is an emotion the user feels at a particular time the user operates the information handling system.

15. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the mood of the user is inferred based on the user'"'"'s biometric data.

16. The system as described in claim 15, wherein the mood of the user is inferred from at least one of user body orientation, user temperature, user body rhythm, user skin conductivity, user heart rate, user breathing, user brain waves and user voice stress.

17. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the mood of the user is inferred from how data is entered by the user on the information handling system.

18. The system as described in claim 17, wherein how data is entered includes at least one of rhythm of data entry, intensity of data entry and speed of data entry.

19. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the mood of the user is inferred based on the data entered by the user on the information handling system.

20. The system as described in claim 19, wherein the mood is monitored based on at least one of user entered words, words mistyped by the user and frequency of misspelling by the user.

21. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the program of instructions further configures the processor to compare an inferred user'"'"'s mood to a generated reference mood.

22. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the input devices enables a user to operate the information handling system through audio means.

23. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the output device is suitable for outputting at least one of audio and tactile data.

24. A system for providing mood contextual output, comprising:

means for monitoring biometric data of a user while the user enters data; and

means for affecting a display of data based on the monitored user'"'"'s mood as inferred from the monitored biometric data.

25. The system as described in claim 24, wherein the inferred mood is an emotion the user feels at a particular time the user entered the data.

26. The system as described in claim 25, wherein the mood of the user is inferred from at least one of user body orientation, user temperature, user body rhythm, user skin conductivity, user heart rate, user breathing, user brain waves and user voice stress.

27. The system as described in claim 24, wherein the monitoring means infers the mood of the user based on how data is entered by the user.

28. The system as described in claim 27, wherein how data is entered includes at least one of rhythm of data entry, intensity of data entry and speed of data entry.

29. The system as described in claim 24, wherein the monitoring means infers the mood of the user based on the data entered by the user.

30. The system as described in claim 29, wherein the mood is inferred from at least one of user entered words, words mistyped by the user and frequency of misspelling by the user.

31. The system as described in claim 24, further comprising a means for comparing a monitored user'"'"'s mood to a generated reference mood.

32. The system as described in claim 24, wherein the system includes means for entering audio data so that the user enters data through the audio means to the information handling system.

33. The system as described in claim 24, wherein the affected display of data includes at least one of means for outputting a display of audio data and means for outputting a display of tactile data.