Method and Apparatus For Analysing An Emotional State of a User Being Provided With Content Information

• US 20080235284A1
• Filed: 09/22/2006
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Aarts, Ronaldus Maria, Kurt, Ralph
• Application Number:
  US12/067,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20080235284A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0533 Measuring galvanic skin response
• 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 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of analysing an emotional state of a user being provided with content information in a consumer electronics interface. The method comprises steps of: (210) obtaining physiological data indicating the user'"'"'s emotional state; (230) identifying a part of the content information related to the physiological data; and (240) storing the physiological data with a reference to the related part of the content information. The invention also relates to a device, a data storage for storing physiological data, and to a computer program.

Claims

1. A method of analysing an emotional state of a user being provided with content information in a consumer electronics interface (110, 130), the method comprising steps of:

(210) obtaining physiological data indicating the user'"'"'s emotional state;

(230) identifying a part of the content information related to the physiological data; and

(240) storing the physiological data with a reference to the related part of the content information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the physiological data comprise a galvanic skin response measurement.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the physiological data are obtained via a user'"'"'s earphone.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the content information is suitable for a linear in time reproduction.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content information is suitable for consumption by the user nonlinearly in time.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the content information is electronic text, printed text or a plurality of images.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the part of the content information is identified on the basis of a time of obtaining the related physiological data.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the part of the content information related to physiological data is identified by monitoring the user being provided with content information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the step of storing, the physiological data are embedded into the content information.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising a step (220) of determining whether the physiologic data exceed a threshold to trigger the identifying step and the storing step.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising a step of activating, if the threshold is exceeded, a camera (118) or an audio input device to record respectively video data of the user or voice data of the user.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising any one of steps

(250) re-providing the content information synchronously with the physiological data;

selecting at least one part of the content information related to the physiological data according to a selected criterion;

comparing the physiological data of the user with further physiological data of a second user with respect to the same content information;

using the physiological data to search in a data storage for a further content information with substantially the same physiological data.

15. A computer program including code means adapted to implement, when executed on a computing device, the steps of the method as claimed in claim 1.

13. A device (150) for analysing an emotional state of a user being provided with content information in a consumer electronics interface (110, 130), the device comprising a data processor (151) for

obtaining physiological data indicating the user'"'"'s emotional state;

identifying a part of the content information related to the physiological data; and

enabling to store the physiological data with a reference to the related part of the content information.

14. Physiological data indicating an emotional state of a user being provided with content information in a consumer electronics interface (110, 130), the physiological data having a reference to a related part of the content information.