33 results about "Mental model" patented technology

A mental-model elicitation process and apparatus, called the Mental-Model Elicitation Device (MMED) is described. The MMED is used to give rise to more effective end-user mental-modeling activities that require executive function and working memory functionality. The method and apparatus is visual analysis based, allowing visual and other sensory representations to be given to thoughts, attitudes, and interpretations of a user about a given visualization of a mental-model, or aggregations of such visualizations and their respective blending. Other configurations of the apparatus and steps of the process may be created without departing from the spirit of the invention as disclosed.

A method for searching an intended path among user mental models comprises retrieving a plurality of mental models from a plurality of users; receiving at least one intended path from a search user; searching the at least one intended path among the plurality of mental models in a database; generating a search report in a form of a path list, wherein the path list further comprises relevance data correlated with each path; wherein the mental models from the plurality of users is obtained via a mind map, a concept map, a knowledge map, a diagram, a flow, a chart or a category of each of the plurality of users.

The present invention provides a system and method for building and analyzing a quantitative model from qualitative tacit knowledge. In one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for creating and analyzing a model of a user's semantic knowledge. The semantic knowledge model is based on cause and effect relationships as defined by the user. In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for creating and analyzing a model of a user's episodic knowledge. The episodic knowledge model is based on the user's past experiences, including recalled stimuli and responses. The semantic and episodic models are used to describe the users internal mental model.

Conveying knowledge by means of a document file is facilitated. A document processing apparatus acquires a source file, and classifies text data included in the source file by the context on the basis of a given criterion. The data thus extracted according to the context is stored in a database. A view file is created with the context according to a reader's mental model. The data to be the content of the view file and the layout thereof can be determined by a user who is the reader in an arbitrary manner.

The invention provides a method for evaluating user quality of experience (QoE) of WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) services by simulating a user behavior. The method comprises the following steps of: at first, setting a set of a QoE evaluation index system consisting of experience property parameters of WAP services, which respectively comprise three applications of webpage browse, file upload and file download on own three aspects of service accessibility, service maintenance and service integrity; secondly, using a test terminal to simulate an entire process that a user uses the WAP services, and respectively collecting and calculating key performance indicators (KPI) of the WAP services, so as to calculate corresponding key quality indicators (KQI); and comprehensively calculating the KQIs by using a mental model to obtain corresponding key experience indicators (KEI) of the WAP services, and obtaining QoE values of the WAP service in a five-grade marking system, which are equivalent to an international standard mean opinion score (MOS). The method provided by the invention has the advantages of objective and practical selected evaluation parameter standards, simple operation steps, low computation complexity, and easiness of realization and integration, and can obtain relatively objective and just perceived quality of user experience by simulating the user behavior.

A method of displaying information to a person viewing a configurable display in a vehicle. The method displays one of a plurality of page formats at a time. Each page format includes one or more images, including a first image in a distinct region of the display. The first image is positioned in an upper region of the display when information conveyed by the first image originates from outside the vehicle, and the first image is positioned in a lower region of the display when information conveyed by the first image originates from within the vehicle. The arrangement of images and the organization of the page formats are configured to convey a mental model of the environment about the vehicle, and displaying multiple pages arranged in a hierarchical order to further convey a mental model of how information is arranged on the various pages is provided.

The present invention provides a method and system for synthesized applying of a series of psychological techniques such as high-level weak signal extraction and human auditory mental model in conventional audio measurement unit and measuring the abnormal sound of the abnormal sound of a sound producer. The present invention adopts a special signal to excite the sound producer to be tested; obtains an abnormal sound curve by measuring current signals and sound pressure signals at both ends of the sound producer and performing time-domain tracking high-pass filtering or EMD process to the two kinds of signals; performing post-processing to the audio response abnormal sound curve by considering the human auditory mental model, to obtain a final audio response abnormal sound curve; and then combining the electrical response abnormal sound. This method can fast and accurately detect whether the abnormal sound exists, which is suitable for production line use.

The invention discloses an evaluation method of multimedia message service user perception and experience QoE for simulating user behavior. The method comprises the steps of firstly setting a multimedia message service QoE evaluation index system including sending and receiving two types of user perception and experience parameters, in terms of service access, service maintenance and service completion, through multimedia message, then adopting a test terminal to simulate the process of sending and receiving multimedia message by the user, respectively gathering and computing key performance indexes KPI of the two types of user perception and experience of the multimedia message service, further computing corresponding key quality indexes KQI of the multimedia message service, adopting a mental model to perform comprehensive operation to KQI, so as to obtain key experience indexes KEI of the corresponding multimedia message service, and then performing comprehensive analysis to the KEI indexes, so as to obtain 5-point system multimedia message service QoE values equivalent to international standard mean opinion score MOS. The method has the advantages that the evaluation parameter standard is objective and practical, the operation steps are simple, the computation complexity is low, and the method is easy to realize, and can simulate the user behavior to obtain objective and fair user perception and experience quality.

The invention discloses a method for classifying, optimizing and analyzing a website based on a user mental model. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly preprocessing log data of the website, wherein the log data contains the data relative to a concept of optimizing of a website classified catalogue issued by a user based on cognition of the user on the website classified catalogue, and extracting the concept from the log data by preprocessing; then determining a co-occurrence relation between the concept issued by the user and the concept in the website classified catalogue by a user mental model classification theory, wherein the concept presents a specific name of the website classified catalogue, such as books and daily articles; converting the co-occurrence relation into a co-occurrence matrix; converting the co-occurrence matrix into a similarity matrix by virtue of a pearson coefficient algorithm; and finally carrying out clustering analysis and multi-dimensional dimensional analysis to analyze similarity and spatiality among concepts of the cognition of the user on the website classified catalogue. Due to the adoption of six steps, decision supports can be provided to the optimizing of the website classified catalogue from a quantified angle based on the user mental model of the website.

In the video coding method and device provided by the present application, firstly, key video frames are encoded to obtain encoded images of key video frames; next, the encoded image of the key videoframe is decoded, and the encoded image of the non-key video frame with reduced resolution is obtained by referring to the decoded key video frame image to complete encoding of the video to be encoded. In the above method, based on the human visual line mental model, the complexity of the encoding process is not significantly changed by referring to the key video frames to generate the non-key video frames with reduced resolution, and the reduction of the non-key frame resolution makes the encoding speed increase, and the subjective feeling of video definition is not affected.

The invention provides a three-dimensional gesture interacting method used for expressing a user mental model, and provides an algorithm expressing a user's hand movement style based on monocular vision from three aspects: the speed, the locus and the visual angle. The method comprises firstly establishing an interaction experiment platform, and establishing a gesture behavior model using a camera, a data glove and a position tracker; secondly establishing a speed, locus and visual angle model of a user's hand in stages in depending the behavior model; at least, acquiring a user's hand movement style through gesture images and the behavior model, making a three-dimension virtual gesture movement style stay the same as an actual user's hand movement style, and displaying in real time. So harmonious, natural and convenient a human-computer interaction task can be smoothly completed. A gesture style algorithm based on a behavior model is utilized in design of a natural interactive interface, a user mental model can be expressed, a user's cognitive load can be reduced, and user interactive experience can be improved.

The current invention promotes accountability in reading, in terms of spatial, causal, temporal, protagonist, and intentionality elements of a story. A book with interactive maps was developed to emphasize the spatial and other dimensions of stories and encourage more spatial mental models, and generally more accurate situation models of the story. The interactive maps were printed on microdot paper and interspersed throughout the book, sometimes with successful completion of the activities required to obtain the page number of the next section of the book, which had been reordered in a non-sequential manner. Wireless electronic pens with cameras track X-Y location information from the microdot paper. Auditory feedback may be provided through a secondary device, like a personal computer, or directly using the electronic pen. The interactive book was tested on a group of sixth-grade students and found to reinforce spatial accountability.

A mental modeling method and system may include providing at least one expert model, the at least one expert model including an analytical framework that summarizes subject matter expert-level knowledge. At least one mental model of at least one individual that summarizes subject matter individual-level knowledge is provided. The at least one expert model is modified based on the at least one mental model to provide at least one updated expert model.

The invention discloses a metal model for analyzing suicidal tendency through chat contents, comprising: step 1, a data collection platform requests chat data to a business system; step 2, the data collection platform selects an appropriate statement according to a keyword library; step 3, the object of a statement is determined; step 4, the category of the statement is determined; step 5, the object level is divided. The invention has the following advantages that by filtering the chat data of the chat tool, the suicide tendency level of the chat object is analyzed; and when the object is marked with a very high risk object, the object can be handed over to the ruling party, and the object is focused on, thereby avoiding the occurrence of the object suicide event.

The invention provides a running operation triggering method and device. The method comprises the following steps of: detecting information of a dragging operation in a running control on a game interface through a game terminal, wherein the information of the dragging operation comprises a direction and a dragging speed of the dragging operation; and triggering a virtual character of the game tostart running according to the information of the dragging operation. The lasting time of the dragging operation is short, not waiting time exists, and the operation is rapid, so that the problem of shielding pictures by fingers is avoided; and the behavior of carrying out rapid dragging operation accords with a mental model for running rapidly, so that the user experience is improved.

A method and an apparatus for configuring parameters under Browser and Server (BS) architecture are provided. The method includes: receiving a selection input which selects a source object of a first frame, in a browser window where the first frame and a second frame are displayed; generating an avatar effect entity in the second frame based on the selection input, wherein the avatar effect entity carries information of the source object; and establishing an association between a target object and the information of the source object carried by the avatar effect entity, when the avatar effect entity is moved to a position corresponding to the target object in the second frame. Based on the solution, the parameters may be configured during the cross-frame dragging under the BS architecture, thereby simplifying the user's operation steps. The operations are intuitive and natural, thereby meeting the user mental model.

A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a travel context with a control unit for traveling through a geographic region; generating a mental model for the travel context; and determining a guidance landmark based on the mental model for providing a navigation guidance for presenting on a device.