USING EMOTIONAL MAPS AND DIALOG DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE WORKOUT EXPERIENCES

• US 20180185705A1
• Filed: 12/30/2016
• Published: 07/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Granted Patent: US 11,211,157 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology to improve a workout experience of a user by determining an emotional state of the user, identifying a workout route based on the emotional state of the user, and outputting the workout route via a user interface device. Additionally, determining the emotional state of the user may include inferring emotions from one or more sensor information or user speech information. In one example, the sensor information includes one or more of blood pressure signals, heart rate signals or sweat measurement signals and the user speech information includes one or more of words used in an input utterance or a prosody of the input utterance.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a housing having a wearable form factor;

a user interface device; and

an emotional workout apparatus including;

an emotion monitor to determine an emotional state of a user,

a route selector communicatively coupled to the emotion monitor, the route selector to identify a workout route based on the emotional state of the user; and

a notifier communicatively coupled to the route selector, the notifier to output the workout route via the user interface device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the emotional monitor to determine the emotional state of the user further includes inferring emotions from one or more of sensor information or user speech information, wherein the sensor information includes one or more of blood pressure signals, heart rate signals or sweat measurement signals, and wherein the user speech information includes one or more of words used in an input utterance or a prosody of the input utterance.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the route selector further including updating the workout route during a workout session that implements the workout route based on a change in the emotional state of the user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the route selector further including searching a list of previously stored routes for one or more tags associated with the emotional state of the user.

5. An apparatus comprising:

an emotion monitor to determine an emotional state of a user;

a route selector communicatively coupled to the emotion monitor, the route selector to identify a workout route based on the emotional state of the user; and

a notifier communicatively coupled to the route selector, the notifier to output the workout route via a user interface device.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the emotional monitor to determine the emotional state of the user further includes to infer emotions from one or more of sensor information or user speech information, wherein the sensor information is to include one or more of blood pressure signals, heart rate signals or sweat measurement signals, and wherein the user speech information is to include one or more of words used in an input utterance or a prosody of the input utterance.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the route selector further including updating the workout route during a workout session that implements the workout route based on a change in the emotional state of the user.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the route selector further includes searching a list of previously stored routes for one or more tags associated with the emotional state of the user.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the road selector further identifies one or more routes in the list that have been previously followed by the user, and prevents the one or more routes from being identified as the workout route.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the road selector further creates the list of previously stored routes based on preconfigured routes and associated tags shared by a plurality of users.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the road selector gives a higher weight to tags shared by the user than tags shared by other users.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein tags in the list of previously stored routes by the road selector describe factors relevant to an emotional perception of the route.

13. A method comprising:

determining an emotional state of a user;

identifying a workout route based on the emotional state of the user; and

outputting the workout route via a user interface device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein determining the emotional state of the user includes inferring emotions from one or more of sensor information or user speech information, wherein the sensor information includes one or more of blood pressure signals, heart rate signals or sweat measurement signals, and wherein the user speech information includes one or more of words used in an input utterance or a prosody of the input utterance.

15. The method of claim 13, further including updating the workout route during a workout session that implements the workout route based on a change in the emotional state of the user.

16. The method of claim 13, further including searching a list of previously stored routes for one or more tags associated with the emotional state of the user.

17. At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions which, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:

determine an emotional state of a user;

identify a workout route based on the emotional state of the user; and

output the workout route via a user interface device.

18. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions, if executed, cause a computing device to infer emotions from one or more of sensor information or user speech information, wherein the sensor information is to include one or more of blood pressure signals, heart rate signals or sweat measurement signals, and wherein the user speech information is to include one or more of words used in an input utterance or a prosody of the input utterance.

19. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions, if executed, cause a computing device to update the workout route during a workout session that implements the workout route based on a change in the emotional state of the user.

20. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions, if executed, cause a computing device to search a list of previously stored routes for one or more tags associated with the emotional state of the user.

21. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the instructions, if executed, cause a computing device to:

identify one or more routes in the list that have been previously followed by the user; and

prevent the one or more routes from being identified as the workout route.

22. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the instructions, if executed, cause a computing device to create the list of previously stored routes based on preconfigured routes and associated tags shared by a plurality of users.

23. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the instructions, if executed, cause a computing device to give a higher weight to tags shared by the user than tags shared by other users.

24. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein tags in the list of previously stored routes describe factors relevant to an emotional perception of the route.