Response scoring system for verbal behavior within a behavioral stream with a remote central processing system and associated handheld communicating devices
AssigneeBarry Katz
InventorsBarry Katz, Robert Peterson
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Abstract
A system, method and related devices for monitoring and improving the training and social eye contact and communication skills of developmentally challenged individuals such as autistic individuals with special needs in improving their interpersonal communicating and other skills. A WatchMe component of the system and method monitors and obtains qualitative and quantitative information about the eye contact habits of a subject being trained or interviewed. It provides stimuli that promotes and encourages improvements in the eye contact habits of the subject.
Claims15
A system for encouraging a developmentally challenged patient to maintain eye contact with a human trainer, during verbal training communications, the system comprising:
- a first receiving device worn by the patient, located in a room in which training is administered, and configured to provide a direction indication representative of a direction to which the head of the patient is facing;
- a second transmitting device, worn by the human trainer located in the room, and configured to sense the direction indication from the first device via an alignment degree between the first device and the second device;
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- a circuit which outputs a reinforcement stimulation to the patient, to encourage the patient to orient her head toward the head of the trainer, in a manner which helps establish eye contact with the trainer.
A method for encouraging a developmentally challenged patient to maintain eye contact with a human trainer during verbal training communication sessions, said method comprising:
- providing the patient with a first receiving device, located in a room in which training is administered, and fitting it to the head of the patient and configured to provide a direction indication representative of a direction to which the head of the patient is facing;
- providing the human trainer with a second transmitting device, worn by the human trainer located in the room, and configured to sense the direction indication from the first device via an alignment degree between the first device and the second device;
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- reinforcing communication with the trainer by stimulating the patient with a circuit that produces an output that encourages the patient to orient the patient's head toward the head of the trainer, in a manner which promotes eye contact with the trainer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.