Area-specific environment management system for providing environment in which arousal level is adjusted, method, and recording medium therefor

An area-specific environment management method that manages an environment in an individual one of a plurality of areas, the method comprising:

• acquiring, from a biological information sensor, biological information about at least one of an individual and a group who belongs to an individual one of the areas;
• acquiring, from an environmental information sensor, environmental information about an individual one of the areas;
• estimating an arousal level with respect to the biological information by using an arousal level estimation model;
• and
• providing an environment to an individual one of the areas based on the arousal level and the environmental information,
• wherein providing the environment includes managing the environment by determining that productivity of the at least one of the individual and the group becomes a desired state in all cases including:
• a case where the estimated arousal level belongs to a state from sleepy until awakened;
• a case where the estimated arousal level belongs to a wakeful state;
• and a case where the estimated arousal level belongs to an excessively wakeful state, an arousal level of the excessively wakeful state being higher than an arousal level of the wakeful state, and
• wherein managing the environment so that the productivity of the at least one of the individual and the group becomes the desired state includes:
• managing the environment so that an arousal state of the at least one of the individual and the group is changed to the wakeful state in the case where the estimated arousal level belongs to the state from sleepy until awakened;
• managing the environment so that the arousal state of the at least one of the individual and the group continues to the wakeful state in the case where the estimated arousal level belongs to the wakeful state;
• and
• managing the environment so that the arousal state of the at least one of the individual and the group is changed to the wakeful state from the excessively wakeful state in the case where the estimated arousal level belongs to the excessively wakeful state, an arousal level of the excessively wakeful state,
• wherein managing the environment so that the arousal state of the at least one of the individual and the group is changed to the wakeful state in the case where the estimated arousal level belongs to the state from sleepy until awakened includes:
• determining whether the environmental information is suitable for the state from sleepy until awakened;
• and
• when it is determined that the environmental information is not suitable, determining a suitable environment for the state from sleepy until awakened, and
• wherein the arousal level estimation model is generated based on a result of an intellectual performance test taken by the at least one of the individual and the group and a feature of the biological information of the at least one acquired biological information from the biological information sensor while the at least one of the individual and the group takes the intellectual performance test.

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing therein a program causing a computer that constitutes an area-specific environment management system that manages an environment in an individual one of a plurality of areas, to perform processing comprising:

• acquiring, from a biological information sensor, biological information about at least one of an individual and a group who belongs to an individual one of the areas;
• acquiring, from an environmental information sensor, environmental information about an individual one of the areas;
• estimating an arousal level with respect to the biological information by using an arousal level estimation model,
• wherein providing the environment includes managing the environment by determining that productivity of the at least one of the individual and the group becomes a desired state in all cases including:
• a case where the estimated arousal level belongs to a state from sleepy until awakened;
• a case where the estimated arousal level belongs to a wakeful state;
• and a case where the estimated arousal level belongs to an excessively wakeful state, an arousal level of the excessively wakeful state being higher than an arousal level of the wakeful state, and
• wherein managing the environment so that the productivity of the at least one of the individual and the group becomes the desired state includes:
• managing the environment so that an arousal state of the at least one of the individual and the group is changed to the wakeful state in a case where the estimated arousal level belongs to the state from sleepy until awakened;
• managing the environment so that the arousal state of the at least one of the individual and the group continues to the wakeful state in the case where the estimated arousal level belongs to the wakeful state;
• and
• managing the environment so that the arousal state of the at least one of the individual and the group is changed to the wakeful state from the excessively wakeful state in the case where the estimated arousal level belongs to the excessively wakeful state, an arousal level of the excessively wakeful state,
• wherein managing the environment so that the arousal state of the at least one of the individual and the group is changed to the wakeful state in the case where the estimated arousal level belongs to the state from sleepy until awakened includes:
• determining whether the environmental information is suitable for the state from sleepy until awakened;
• and
• when it is determined that the environmental information is not suitable, determining a suitable environment for the state from sleepy until awakened, and
• wherein the arousal level estimation model is generated based on a result of an intellectual performance test taken by the at least one of the individual and the group and a feature of the biological information of the at least one acquired biological information from the biological information sensor while the at least one of the individual and the group takes the intellectual performance test.