Systems and methods for estimating and predicting emotional states and affects and providing real time feedback

A software or machine implemented psychological, personality or affective assessment and tool comprising:

• a computing system comprising artificial intelligence, self learning adaptive software, a neural networks, or a rules base algorithm wherein said computing system runs on a computing device and is programmed to includes or access data comprising psychological, affective or physiological assessment, diagnostic or treatment techniques or knowledge;
• a first human user interface to said computing system wherein said first interface operates to convey stimulus to a user from the computing system wherein said first human user interface comprises or is connected to a combination of one or more transducers and one or more actuators operable to provide a stimulus to the user;
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• a second human user interface to said computing system wherein said second interface operates to receive feedback from the user to the computing system wherein said second human interface includes one or more sensors or transducers operable to receive feedback from the user attached or connected to or proximate to the user wherein said feedback includes a physiological datum or a physical datum or one or more other datums of or from the user wherein said one or more other datums is a verbal datum, a sound datum, a voice datum, a facial datum, a typing datum, a grip datum, a muscle tension datum, a motion datum, or a user provided subjective datum
• wherein said computing system provides multiple stimuli to the user through the first interface and receives multiple feedbacks from the user through the second interface to said stimuli and wherein said computing system generates a psychological, personality or affective assessment of the user wherein said assessment is derived using feedbacks received from the provided stimuli.

A virtual personality coach or psychological trainer for identifying personality, psychological or affective characteristics of an individual and for helping the individual modify, train or condition one or more such characteristics comprising:

• a computing system comprising artificial intelligence, self learning adaptive software, a neural network, or a rules base algorithm running on a computing device that identifies or estimates a personality, psychological or affective characteristic of a user wherein the identifying or estimating a personality, psychological or affective characteristic of said user by the computing system uses physiological, physical, or other data of the user derived from or generated by one or more sensors or transducers operable to receive user feedback attached to or connected to or proximal to the user wherein said other data is one or more of verbal data, sound data, voice data, facial data, typing data, grip data, muscle tension, motion data or user provided subjective data;
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• a user interface to computing system associated with modifying a personality, psychological or affective characteristic of the user wherein said computing system is operable to attempt to modify said personality, psychological or affective characteristic of the user wherein said user interface associated with modifying a personality, psychological or affective characteristic of a user includes or is connected to a combination of one or more transducers and one or more actuators operable to provide a stimulus to the user and wherein said attempt to modify said characteristic is dependent on interaction with said user and does not require any other non-user human interaction.