Attention assistance and monitoring
AssigneeGeorge Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.
InventorsMohammad Asad, Nathalia Peixoto, Sidney West, Jr., David Grossman
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Abstract
An attention assistance device configured to help maintain a user's focus on a given task. In one embodiment, text is presenting to a user on a touchscreen. The user tracking the text using a finger is monitored. The user is stimulated when the finger stops tracking the text for a predetermined period of time. In another embodiment, an electronic device presents an output configured to be tracked by a user. A monitoring device observes the user tracking the output. A sensory stimulating device stimulates the user when the “tracking” falls below an attention threshold.
Claims23
A non-transient computer readable medium containing a multitude of computer readable instructions that when executed by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform a process comprising:
- a) presenting text to a user on a touchscreen;
- b) monitoring the user tracking the text using a finger;
- and
- c) stimulating the user when the finger stops tracking the text for a predetermined period of time.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a) an electronic device configured to present an output configured to be tracked by a user;
- b) a monitoring device configured to observe the user tracking the output;
- c) a sensory stimulating device configured to stimulate the user when the tracking falls below an attention threshold.
An non-transient computer readable medium containing a multitude of computer readable instructions that when executed by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform a process comprising:
- a) presenting output configured to be tracked by a user on an electronic device;
- b) actively monitoring the user tracking the output;
- and
- c) stimulating the user when the tracking falls below an attention threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.