Method for improving the success of immediate wellbeing interventions to achieve a desired emotional state

Abstract

A method for recommending those interventions most likely to achieve a desired state involves predicting the efficacy and engagement of interventions based on the experience of prior users who undertook the interventions. Physiological and personal parameters of the user are acquired. The user's initial state and desired state are determined. The engagement and efficacy levels of each intervention are predicted and used to determine the likelihood that the transition achieved by each intervention achieves its predicted end state. The likelihood that a second transition achieves the desired state is also determined based on efficacy and engagement for the second transition whose starting state is the end state of the first transition. The first and second interventions are identified whose associated transitions have the greatest combined likelihood of achieving the desired state compared to all other intervention combinations. The user is then prompted to engage in the first and second interventions.