Method for monitoring training programs
AssigneeNeuroCom International, Inc.
InventorLewis M. Nashner
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring training programs prescribed to benefit a subject. A training program prescriber may evaluate training effectiveness from a separate location from where a subject performs training tasks. Accuracy of actual task performances is measured and is compared with quality-benchmark data. The number of tasks actually performed is recorded and is compared with quantity-benchmark data. Benchmark-data may be obtained from previous subject performances or from performance by a defined reference population. Categorized results are calculated and assessments regarding program difficulty and motivation of the subject may be formulated. Compliance with expected program goals is analyzed and monitored.
Claims11
A method for monitoring the effectiveness of a training program, prescribed to a subject by a prescriber, the training program including at least one task to be performed a plurality of times during a defined time period by the subject, the method comprising the following steps:
- measuring accuracy of actual performances by the subject of the at least one task, the step performed at a first site,
- comparing the accuracy with quality-benchmark data,
- calculating at least one quality result calculated from at least one comparison, and
- displaying to the prescriber, at a second site, the at least one quality result.
A method for determining whether a prescribed training task is appropriately difficult relative to a subject's ability and whether best effort is being exerted by the subject to accomplish the prescribed training task, the method consisting of the following steps:
- (1) performing an evaluation of the subject's functional performance capabilities relative to a specified activity,
- (2) selecting at least one task from the specified activity, the level of challenge of the at least one task matched to the functional performance capabilities determined in step (1),
- (3) establishing goals relative to the quantity of the at least one task to be completed by the subject over a defined time period and relative to the accuracy of performance of the at least one task, based on the information gained in the evaluation of step (1),
- (4) instructing a subject to perform the at least one task,
- (5) displaying at least one goal to the subject relative to the at least one task,
- (6) displaying information to the subject related to actual performance relative to the at least one displayed task goal,
- (7) measuring one or more quantities related to the subject's training compliance relative to the at least one task,
- (8) calculating one or more quantities related to the number of tasks attempted and to the accuracy of performance relative to the at least one task goal, and
- (9) comparing quantities related to the numbers of task performed and quantities related to the accuracy of performance specified in step (8) in accordance with a specified algorithm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.