Attention assistance and monitoring
AssigneeGeorge Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc.
InventorsMohammad Askar Asad, Nathalia Peixoto, Sidney West, 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.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- presenting, with a processor, an output to a user on a touchscreen;
- monitoring, with the processor, the user tracking the output;
- and
- stimulating, with the processor, the user when the user tracking falls below an attention threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.