US 9,808,709 B2 · System and methods for biometric detection of play states, intrinsic motivators, play types/patterns and play personalities

Abstract

Techniques are described herein for automatically determining play states, intrinsic motivators, play types/patterns and a play personality of a user/subject. Play personalities develop from activation of play states, and vary individually and are expressed in a variety of play type/patterns. These states, personalities, patterns and associated intrinsic motivations may be automatically determined by computing devices based on that user/subject's information, behaviors and biometric data. The play personality may be additionally used as the means for identifying and integrating intrinsic motivators into player-centric design which can alter and personalize user/subject/player engagement, experience and outcomes.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

monitoring biometric information of a user/subject, using one or more sensing devices, to detect play bio-markers that indicate when intrinsic motivators of the user/subject have caused the user/subject to enter a state of play that is characterized by a loss of sense of time and a feeling of deep engagement;
responsive to detecting play bio-markers, storing one or more user/subject-specific play records in a computing system;
wherein the user/subject-specific play records include play state event information;
and
based on the play state event information, the computing system automatically performing one or more actions;
and
wherein automatically performing one or more actions comprises automatically determining, for the user/subject, play type/patterns, wherein the play type/patterns determined for the user/subject based on the play state event information includes one or more of:
Object, Pretend, Social, Rough and Tumble, Body, Exploratory, Celebratory, Competitive, Ritual, Narrative, or Fantasy.

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A system comprising:

one or more sensing devices;
and
a target device;
wherein the one or more sensing devices are configured to:
monitor biometric information of a user/subject to detect play bio-markers that indicate when intrinsic motivators of the user/subject have caused the user/subject to enter a state of play that is characterized by a loss of sense of time and a feeling of deep engagement;
wherein the target device is configured to:
store one or more user/subject-specific play records based on play bio-markers detected by the one or more sensing devices;
wherein the user/subject-specific play records include play state event information;
and
based on the play state event information, automatically perform one or more actions;
wherein automatically performing one or more actions comprises automatically determining play type/patterns, wherein the play type/patterns determined for the user/subject based on the play state event information includes one or more of:
Object, Pretend, Social, Rough and Tumble, Body, Exploratory, Celebratory, Competitive, Ritual, Narrative, or Fantasy.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and methods for biometric detection of play states, intrinsic motivators, play types/patterns and play personalities

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System and methods for biometric detection of play states, intrinsic motivators, play types/patterns and play personalities

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