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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2016
Affectiva, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Rana el Kaliouby, Milton, MA (US);
Panu James Turcot, San Francisco, CA (US);
Forest Jay Handford, Berlin, MA (US);
Daniel Bender, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rosalind Wright Picard, Newtonville, MA (US);
Richard Scott Sadowsky, Sturbridge, MA (US);
Oliver Orion Wilder-Smith, Holliston, MA (US);
Affectiva, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Mental state data is collected as a person interacts with a game played on a machine. The mental state data includes facial data, where the facial data includes facial regions or facial landmarks. The mental state data can include physiological data and actigraphy data. The mental state data is analyzed to produce mental state information. Mental state data and/or mental state information can be shared across a social network or a gaming community. The affect of the person interacting with the game can be represented to the social network or gaming community in the form of an avatar. Recommendations based on the affect resulting from the analysis can be made to the person interacting with the game. Mental states are analyzed locally or via a web services. Based on the results of the analysis, the game with which the person is interacting is modified.