Discern Science International, Inc.

Aaron Elkins

Sailesh Saxena

Sudheer George

Surekha Aray

David Mackstaller

Judee Burgoon

Srilaxmi Butukuri

Anmol Bagbai

Douglas Derrick

Bradley L Walls

Brad Walls

Veera Venkata Durga Kalepusubrahmanyam

Jay Nunamaker

Vellingiri Venkatachalam

John David Mackstaller

A distributed discernment system that includes discernment server including a processer running a diagnostic program and server interface permitting communications to and from the discernment server where the discernment system communicates with two or more human interface devices, where each human interface device includes display capable of presenting a video segment of a virtual human interviewer asking a question to an interviewee and sensors capable of detecting various responses of a human interviewee to each presented question where the discernment server includes a diagnostic that generates interview instructions to be provided to a plurality of human interface devices over the communications network, wherein the instructions provided to a given human interface device are intended to cause the human interface device to present certain questions to a human interviewee interacting with the device and wherein the discernment server is adapted to receive data from each of a plurality of the human interface devices and analyze such data to provide an assessment of the state of the human interviewee interacting with the human interface device.

Distributed discernment detection system with plural user interface devices

An example of a distributed discernment system including a discernment server and a communications interface permitting bi-directional communications to and from the discernment server; and a plurality of human interface devices, each including a speaker, a microphone, a processor running a local processing program, and a system interface permitting bi-directional communications between the human interface device and the discernment server, where the diagnostic program running on the discernment server is adapted to generate interview instructions provided to the interface devices and the interface devices are adapted receive interview instructions from the discernment server, present a verbal question to a human interviewee; receive and process sensor data from the microphone to determine whether the microphone sensor data corresponds to a complete human voice response to the presented verbal question.

Distributed discernment system

Discernment detection device

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