Judgment ability evaluation apparatus, robot, judgment ability evaluation method, program, and medium

• US 20040137413A1
• Filed: 02/23/2004
• Published: 07/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohta, Kazuyo, Yamamoto, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US10/466,393
• Publication Number:
  US 20040137413A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/236
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/00 Other methods or instruments for diagnosis, e.g. instruments for taking a cell sample, for biopsy, for vaccination diagnosis vaccination prophylaxis, vaccination therapy A61B17/20; Sex determination; Ovulation-period determination menstruation tables G06C3/00; Throat striking implements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4088 Diagnosing of monitoring cognitive diseases, e.g. Alzheimer, prion diseases or dementia
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6896 Toys
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

There are intellectual evaluation devices in which interview content is previously registered by a doctor, its answers are managed electronically, and intellectual activity is evaluated for preventing the decline of mental activity such as dementia. However, with such conventional intellectual evaluation devices, the declining degree of intellectual activity of the user could not be monitored properly, for example, for the reasons that the subject feels resistance to being subjected to judgment evaluation, and the like.

A judgment evaluation device 100 comprising an output means 102 of outputting a question to the user, an input means 104 of inputting the user'"'"'s answer to the output question, a judging means 105 of determining whether or not the input answer is correct, and an evaluation means 106 of evaluating the user'"'"'s judgment based on the result of determination.

Claims

1. A judgment evaluation device comprising:

a question output means of outputting a question to a user;

an answer input means of inputting an answer of the user to the output question;

a determining means of determining whether or not the input answer is correct; and

a judgment evaluation means of evaluating a judgment of the user based on a result of the determination.

2. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 1, further comprising a question making means of making the output question, and a correct answer making means of making a correct answer for the made question,

wherein the determining means determines whether or not the input answer is correct based on the made correct answer.

3. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 2, further comprising an answer content recording means of recording a content of the answer,

wherein the question making means makes the output question based on the recorded answer content.

4. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 2, wherein the question making means makes the question based on a result of the evaluation.

5. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 2, further comprising a sensor means of detecting a behavior of the user,

wherein the question making means makes the output question based on a result of the detection, and

the correct answer making means makes a correct answer for the made question based on the result of the detection.

6. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 2, further comprising an input recognition means of recognizing a predetermined input from the user, and a response generating means of generating a predetermined response to the user based on a result of the recognition,

wherein the question making means makes the output question based on the input recognition and/or the response generation.

7. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 1, wherein the evaluation means evaluates the judgment of the user by considering at least one of (1) date and time when the question is output to the user and/or date and time when the answer of the user to the question is input, and (2) a difficulty of the question output to the user.

8. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 1, wherein the question output means periodically outputs the question based on a predetermined standard.

9. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 1, wherein the question output means outputs the question using voice synthesis, and

the answer input means inputs the answer using voice recognition.

10. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 1, further comprising an

evaluation-result-information-notifying-to-outside means of notifying information regarding a result of the evaluation to outside.

14. A robot further comprising the judgment evaluation device according to any of claims 1 to 13;

and

a condition changing means of changing a condition based on a result of the evaluation.

15. The robot according to claim 14, wherein the changing a condition is changing a condition regarding at least one of utterance, expression, and gesture.

16. The robot according to claim 15, further comprising a user presence sensing means of sensing a presence of the user,

wherein the condition changing means changes the condition based on a result of the sensing as well when a question is output to the user.

11. A judgment evaluation device comprising:

a question output means of outputting substantially the same question to a user for a plurality of times;

an answer input means of inputting an answer of the user to the substantially the same question output for the plurality of times; and

a judgment evaluation means of evaluating a judgment of the user based on variation in answers of the user to the substantially the same question.

12. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 11, wherein the evaluation is evaluation regarding a degree of dementia of the user.

13. The judgment evaluation device according to claim 12, further comprising:

a user personal data holding means of holding user personal data regarding a personal voice and/or personal image of the user;

a user person recognition means of performing user person recognition regarding the personal voice and/or personal image of the user; and

a question making means of making the output question using the held user personal data based on a result of the performed user person recognition.

17. A judgment evaluation method comprising:

a question output step of outputting a question to a user;

an answer input step of inputting an answer of the user to the output question;

a determining step of determining whether or not the input answer is correct; and

a judgment evaluation step of evaluating a judgment of the user based on a result of the determination.

19. A program of causing a computer to perform the question output step, the answer input step, the determining step, and the judgment evaluation step of the judgment evaluation method according to claim 17.

21. A medium supporting the program according to claim 19, which can be processed by a computer.

18. A judgment evaluation method comprising:

a question output step of outputting substantially the same question to a user for a plurality of times;

an answer input step of inputting an answer of the user to the substantially the same question output for the plurality of times; and

a judgment evaluation step of evaluating a judgment of the user based on variation in answers of the user to the substantially the same question.

20. A program of causing a computer to perform the question output step, the answer input step, and the judgment evaluation step of the judgment evaluation method according to claim 18.

22. A medium supporting the program according to claim 20, which can be processed by a computer.