A teleconferencing system for providing remote assistance comprises a local user apparatus that captures both the field of view of the local user along with physiological state of the local user, and a remote user apparatus to allow the remote user to view what the local user is seeing and doing. The local user and remote user have a shared view and a shared audio link, and the remote user can provided assistance to the local user in performing tasks at the local site. Additionally the physiological state of the local user is monitored, and from the physiological state data, an estimate of the emotional state or physiological state of the local user is provided to the remote user. The remote user can interact or assist the local user, including controlling the amount and/or type of assistance provided to the local user based on their current emotional state.

An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, an information acquiring unit, a setting unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicatively connects with a terminal device having a sensor. The information acquiring unit acquires information detected by the sensor from the terminal device communicatively connected via the communication unit. The setting unit sets a preferential terminal device to be preferentially connected with the communication unit. The controller performs control to connect with the preferential terminal device preferentially over a terminal device that is not a preferential terminal device within a capacity range of the communication unit.

Embodiments for intelligent monitoring of a health state of a user by a processor. A health state of a user may be learned while engaged in one or more activities associated with a computing device. One or more mitigating actions may be identified and recommended to implement by the user to minimize one or more possible negative impacts upon the health state of the user while engaged in the one or more activities associated with the computing device.

Methods and systems for controlling access to enterprise resources based on tracking are disclosed. In one implementation, an enterprise security system includes one or more tracking systems, an information technology (IT) system, and a security integration system (SIS). The one or more tracking systems track movement of individuals throughout the enterprise. The SIS blocks access to the computer resources based on the tracked movement of the individuals within the enterprise.

A method for predicting an arousal level used by a computer of an arousal level prediction apparatus that predicts an arousal level of a user is provided. The method includes obtaining current biological information regarding the user detected by a sensor, and calculating a current arousal level of the user based on the current biological information. The method further includes obtaining current environment information indicating a current environment around the user, and predicting a future arousal level, which is an arousal level a certain period of time later, based on the current arousal level and the current environment information. Based on the predicted future arousal level, the method further issues a notification to the user, or controls an operation of a device.

The present disclosure is a human body physiological parameter monitoring method based on face recognition for a workstation, and the method is based on a human physiological parameter monitoring system. The human physiological parameter monitoring system has a backstage server, at least one image acquisition device arranged in the workstation; the image acquisition device is communicatively connected with the backstage server and the method has the following steps:(1) continuous image sampling is carried out by the image acquisition device, and uploaded to the backstage server; when an image acquisition device detects the presence of a person, it proceeds to step (2); (2) the backstage server compares the person detected in step (1) with a pre-stored registered person sample on the backstage server through a face recognition algorithm. The method disclosed has the advantage of greatly improved detection efficiency and accuracy.

A method for predicting an arousal level used by a computer of an arousal level prediction apparatus that predicts an arousal level of a user includes obtaining current biological information regarding the user detected by a first sensor, calculating a current arousal level of the user on the basis of the current biological information, obtaining current environment information indicating a current environment around the user detected by a second sensor, predicting a future arousal level, which is an arousal level a certain period of time later, on the basis of the current arousal level and the current environment information, and (i) issuing a notification to the user or (ii) controlling another device, on the basis of the future arousal level.

A dry eye syndrome alert system through posture and work detection, includes: a data collecting unit configured to detect a posture of a user to collect posture data of the user and preprocess the posture data; an eye blink frequency calculating unit configured to identify a posture change of the user on the basis of the posture data, calculate a motion variability on the basis of the posture change, and estimate an eye blink frequency of the user on the basis of the motion variability; and a diagnosis and alert output unit configured to store data regarding the estimated eye blink frequency, compare the estimated eye blink frequency with a preset reference value, and output an alert to the user when the estimated eye blink frequency is less than or equal to the preset reference value.

The present invention provides for a system and method for assessing and improving the quality of professionalism in the workplace. A database is instantiated with user information from a plurality of users. A rating scheme is then created from the database, comprising a plurality of ratees and raters and validated by a validator. Surveys are automatically transmitted to the raters and received upon completion for the generation of a report for each ratee, subject to further approval. The ratees are then afforded evaluations, training and feedback on the extent to which the ratee has improved. The software modules are determined by the system based on the behaviorally anchored feedback received for each ratee. A personal biometric monitoring device may further be disposed in connection with the system for performing real-time data tracking, delivery of prevention messages, and transmittal of pertinent data for further evaluations, training, and feedback.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus to objectively measure stress and fatigue using measurement tools, record stress and fatigue related data in a standardized database, create automated prompts and alerts based upon pre-defined stress and fatigue thresholds (which are derived based upon individual end-user and task performance), provide a number of interventions (which can be preferentially selected by the individual end-user), create data-driven best practice guidelines though meta-analysis of the database, and provide an objective tool for comparative technology assessment.