Human emotion metrics for navigation plans and maps

• US 8,364,395 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2010
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AirBNB Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: French, Paul B., Thiebaut-George, Eric, Lucey, Niall Jude, Stern, Edith Helen, Truss, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAN QUANG
• Application Number:
  US12/967,519
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150430A1
• Time in Patent Office: 777 Days
• Field of Search: 701/410, 701/411, 701/413, 701/418, 701/423, 701/425, 704/270, 707/737
• US Class Current: 701/410
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3453 Special cost functions, i.e. other than distance or default speed limit of road segments

Abstract

An enhanced navigation system allowing navigation route and destination planning according to user-specified criteria for the emotion state of persons along the route, at the destination, or both. The enhancement is accomplished by receiving a set of human emotion metrics corresponding to one or more parts of a navigation plan; determining if the human emotion metrics meet one or more user-specified criteria; responsive to not meeting the criteria, determining an alternate navigation plan until the user-specified criteria are met; and responsive to the criteria being met, presenting the navigation plan to the user for laying into a navigation system, and optionally during execution of the navigation plan updating the received human emotion metrics; repeating the determination against the user-specified criteria; and repeating the steps of determining an alternate navigation plan and presentation to a user responsive to the updated human emotion metrics not meeting the user-specified criteria.

Claims

1. A computer program product for enhanced navigation route and destination planning comprising:

a tangible, computer readable storage memory device;

first program instructions to receive a first human emotion metric corresponding to a travel destination or to a travel segment;

second program instructions to compare the received human emotion metric to a user-specified criterion to determine a degree of correlation between the destination or segment and a user preference; and

third program instructions to provide an indication to a user of acceptability or unacceptability of the travel destination or travel segment according to the degree of correlation;

wherein the first, second, and third program instructions are stored by the tangible, computer readable storage memory device.

2. The computer program product as set forth in claim 1 wherein the human emotion metric is received from at least one source selected from a group consisting of a user'"'"'s mobile device, a social web site server, a human emotion metrics aggregation server, a separate application program, a separate server, and an emotion sensor.

3. The computer program product as set forth in claim 1 wherein the user comprises a device selected from a group consisting of an on-board vehicle navigation system, a portable navigation system, an application program, and a directions server.

4. The computer program product as set forth in claim 1 further comprising fourth program instructions to, subsequent to initially providing an indication to a user of acceptability or unacceptability of the travel destination or travel segment according to the degree of correlation, repeat the receiving, comparing and indicating of acceptability or unacceptability responsive to a change in the first human emotion metric, wherein the fourth program instructions are stored by the tangible, computer readable storage memory device.

5. The computer program product as set forth in claim 1 further comprising fourth program instructions to, subsequent to initially providing an indication to a user of acceptability or unacceptability of the travel destination or travel segment according to the degree of correlation, perform the receiving, comparing and indicating of acceptability or unacceptability responsive to receipt of a second human emotion metric corresponding to a travel destination or to a travel segment, wherein the fourth program instructions are stored by the tangible, computer readable storage memory device.

6. A system for enhanced navigation route and destination planning comprising:

a metric input portion of a computing platform configured to receive a first human metric corresponding to a travel destination or to a travel segment;

a comparator portion of the computing platform configured to compare the received human emotion metric to a user-specified criterion to determine a degree of correlation between the destination or segment and a user preference; and

an indicator output portion of the computing platform configured to provide an indication to a user of acceptability or unacceptability of the travel destination or travel segment according to the degree of correlation;

wherein the computing platform comprises a processor and one or more computer readable storage memories.

7. The system as set forth in claim 6 wherein the human emotion metric is received from at least one source selected from a group consisting of a user'"'"'s mobile device, a social web site server, a human emotion metrics aggregation server, a separate application program, a separate server, and an emotion sensor.

8. The system as set forth in claim 6 wherein the user comprises a device selected from a group consisting of an on-board vehicle navigation system, a portable navigation system, an application program, and a directions server.

9. The system as set forth in claim 6 wherein the comparator portion is further configured to, subsequent to initially providing an indication to a user of acceptability or unacceptability of the travel destination or travel segment according to the degree of correlation, repeat the receiving, comparing and indicating of acceptability or unacceptability responsive to a change in the first human emotion metric, wherein the fourth program instructions are stored by the computer readable storage memory.

10. The system as set forth in claim 6 the comparator portion is further configured to, subsequent to initially providing an indication to a user of acceptability or unacceptability of the travel destination or travel segment according to the degree of correlation, perform the receiving, comparing and indicating of acceptability or unacceptability responsive to receipt of a second human emotion metric corresponding to a travel destination or to a travel segment.