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Microsoft Seeks Patent To Know How You Feel
Posted by Jacob Goldstein
Say you’re sitting at your computer, typing away, and suddenly you see something — an ominous email from the boss, maybe — that makes you nervous. Your heart races, and you lose focus on your work. A minute later, a colleague IMs you and offers to lend a hand. Creepy? Useful? Both?
We pose the question because Microsoft has applied for a patent on a system for “monitoring group activities” that could automatically keep an eye on people’s vital signs as a way to see how everybody’s doing and to send help when it’s needed.
The system could use sensors to “detect at least one of heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement, facial movements, facial expressions, and blood pressure,” the application says.
Those signs could allow a system of the future to “automatically detect frustration or stress in the user via physiological and environmental sensors and then offer or provide some type of assistance accordingly.”
The patent application is posted on the Web site of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and was described in a recent story in the Times of London.
The application (which refers not only to desktop computers but also to mobile devices) “does not relate to any of Microsoft’s current product plans,” Microsoft VP of Intellectual Property and Licensing Horacio Gutierrez said in a statement.
And most of the application doesn’t have anything to do with vital signs. It talks a lot about tracking users’ activities (both online and offline), flagging when they need an assist and suggesting a way to get help.
The application “uses the monitoring of user heart rate as an example of the kind of physical state that could be monitored to detect when users need assistance with their activities, and to offer assistance by putting them in touch with other users who may be able to help,” Gutierrez said. [标签:content1][标签:content2]
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作者:admin@医学,生命科学 2011-08-06 17:14
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