SENSITIVITY EVALUATION SYSTEM, SENSITIVITY EVALUATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130096397A1
• Filed: 06/16/2011
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Fukuzumi, Shinichi, Kasamatsu, Keiko, Yamagishi, Misako, Kiso, Hiroaki, Jingu, Hideo
• Application Number:
  US13/703,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20130096397A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/112 for measuring diameter of pupils
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/369 Electroencephalography [EEG] devices for psychotechnics A61B5/16
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4035 Evaluating the autonomic nervous system
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4058 for evaluating the central nervous system A61B5/4806, A61B5/4821 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 7/00 Instruments for auscultation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

Provided is a sensitivity evaluation system for estimating sensitivity of a subject from bio-information with high accuracy, including: an acquisition unit to acquire as biological data, a reaction of a sympathetic nervous system and a reaction of a parasympathetic nervous system; a biological data analysis unit to judge from the obtained biological data, a candidate group of sensitivity factors that the subject has; a positive/negative analysis unit to judge from information obtained from the subject, whether an inner state of the subject is pleasant or unpleasant; and a comprehensive evaluation unit to integrat analysis results of the biological data analysis unit and the positive/negative analysis unit to estimate the sensitivity comprehensively.

Claims

1. A sensitivity evaluation system, comprising:

an acquisition unit to acquire as biological data a reaction of a sympathetic nervous system and/or a reaction of a parasympathetic nervous system;

a biological data analysis unit to judge from the obtained biological data, a candidate group of sensitivity factors that a subject has;

a positive/negative analysis unit to judge from information obtained from the subject, whether an inner state of the subject is a positive pleasant state or a negative unpleasant state; and

a comprehensive evaluation unit to integrate analysis results of the biological data analysis unit and the positive/negative analysis unit to estimate sensitivity comprehensively,

wherein;

the candidate group of sensitivity factors are candidate groups associated with an active degree of the sympathetic nervous system and/or the parasympathetic nervous system,

wherein;

the candidate groups include a plurality of sensitivity factors in the form of a set of positive and negative sensitivity factors.

2. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires the reaction of the sympathetic nervous system and/or the reaction of the parasympathetic nervous system from different living body parts.

3. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the biological data analysis unit judges the biological data obtained by acquiring the reaction of the sympathetic nervous system and the biological data obtained by acquiring the reaction of the parasympathetic nervous system in combination to extract the candidate group of sensitivity factors.

4. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the biological data analysis unit judges the biological data obtained by acquiring the reaction of the sympathetic nervous system and the biological data obtained by acquiring the reaction of the parasympathetic nervous system separately to extract each candidate group of sensitivity factors.

5. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the biological data analysis unit judges, based on the biological data obtained from the subject at a plurality of timings, the candidate group of sensitivity factors that the subject has.

6. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the positive/negative analysis unit judges, based on a plurality of kinds of information for analyzing pleasantness and unpleasantness obtained from the subject, whether the subject is pleasant or unpleasant.

7. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the positive/negative analysis unit judges, based on information for analyzing pleasantness and unpleasantness obtained from the subject at a plurality of timings, whether the subject is pleasant or unpleasant.

8. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the positive/negative analysis unit matches a result of the judgment of pleasantness and unpleasantness and the acquired biological data of the sympathetic nervous system and/or the parasympathetic nervous system to determine a reliability of the result of the judgment.

9. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the comprehensive evaluation unit extracts, from the candidate group of sensitivity factors obtained from the biological data analysis unit, corresponding sensitivity based on a result of the judgment obtained from the positive/negative analysis unit.

10. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the comprehensive evaluation unit extracts, from the candidate group of sensitivity factors obtained from the biological data analysis unit, corresponding sensitivity based on a degree of positiveness and negativeness included in a result of the judgment obtained from the positive/negative analysis unit.

11. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the comprehensive evaluation unit extracts, in association with each of the reaction of the sympathetic nervous system and the reaction of the parasympathetic nervous system, a kind of the sensitivity and a degree thereof, and calculates, based on the extracted kind of the sensitivity and the extracted degree thereof, an “

attractiveness”

that the subject felt during an evaluation.

12. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the biological data analysis unit uses, as the biological data acquired from the sympathetic nervous system and/or the parasympathetic nervous system, any one of a pupil diameter, a temperature near a nostril, and a brain wave.

13. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the positive/negative analysis unit judges, from any one or a combination of text information obtained as an answer to a question asked to the subject, image information taken of the subject, voice information obtained by acquiring a voice of the subject, and gesture information of the subject, whether the subject is pleasant or unpleasant, or a degree of pleasantness or unpleasantness.

14. A sensitivity evaluation system according to claim 1, wherein the sensitivity evaluation system sets, based on a judged kind of the sensitivity and/or a judged intensity of the sensitivity, an information processing operation to be performed next from among predetermined options of the information processing operation in association with kinds of the sensitivity and/or intensities of the sensitivity to be judged.

15. (canceled)

16. A sensitivity evaluation method, comprising:

acquiring a reaction of a sympathetic nervous system as biological data;

acquiring a reaction of a parasympathetic nervous system as the biological data;

performing judgment processing, from the obtained biological data, about a candidate group of sensitivity factors that candidate groups associate with an active degree of the sympathetic nervous system and/or the parasympathetic nervous system, and the candidate groups include a plurality of sensitivity factors in the form of a set of positive and negative sensitivity factors;

performing judgment processing, from information obtained from the subject, sensitivity factors on whether an inner state of the subject is the pleasant state or the unpleasant state; and

performing estimation processing, based on the judged pleasant state or unpleasant state, about sensitivity from among the candidate group of sensitivity factors obtained by the judgment processing.

17. (canceled)

18. A recording medium having recorded thereon a sensitivity evaluation program for causing a control unit of an information processing apparatus to operate as:

a biological data analysis unit to judge, from biological data obtained from an acquisition unit for acquiring a reaction of a sympathetic nervous system and a reaction of a parasympathetic nervous system, a candidate group of sensitivity factors that a subject has;

a positive/negative analysis unit to judge, from information obtained from the subject, whether an inner state of the subject is a pleasant state or an unpleasant state; and

a comprehensive evaluation unit to integrate analysis results of the biological data analysis unit and the positive/negative analysis unit to estimate sensitivity comprehensively,

wherein;

the candidate group of sensitivity factors are candidate groups associated with an active degree of the sympathetic nervous system and/or the parasympathetic nervous system,

wherein;

the candidate groups include a plurality of sensitivity factors in the form of a set of positive and negative sensitivity factors.