CN104823210A

CN104823210A - Systems and methods for response calibration

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Publication number: CN104823210A
Application number: CN201380060909.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: E·A·霍姆斯
Original assignee: Theranos Inc
Current assignee: Serranos intellectual property limited liability company
Priority date: 2012-09-25
Filing date: 2013-09-24
Publication date: 2015-08-05
Also published as: EP2901399A4; CA2884305A1; JP2019091498A; SG11201502239UA; KR20150063073A; IN2015DN03189A; WO2014052337A1; HK1213673A1; AU2013323790A1; EP2901399A1; JP2015534686A; SG10201601353PA

Abstract

The disclosure provides methods, systems, and computer readable media for calibrating user responses to questions. The method may comprise presenting, with the aid of a computer system and an interactive display operatively coupled to the computer system, a query to a user. The query may relate to the users dietary consumption, exercise, health condition or mental condition. The system may receive from the user a response to the query. The system may interpret a users response to a query based on a set of reference information. The set of reference information may comprise a pictorial depiction of portion size of the dietary consumption, exertion level of the exercise, existing state of the health condition or existing state of the mental condition.

Description

For answering the system and method for calibration

cross reference

This application claims and be filed in the 61/705th of on September 25th, 2012, the rights and interests of No. 552 U.S. Provisional Applications, this application is incorporated into this by reference and in full for all objects.

Background technology

Questionnaire is series of problems in order to collect information this purpose from answerer or other promptings.Questionnaire can be the research tool designed to carry out statistical study to user's answer.

Questionnaire can be presented to user by the computer system with graphic user interface (GUI).GUI be allow user by image and Text Command the user interface type mutual with electronic equipment.GUI such as may be used in computing machine, handheld device such as MP3 player, portable electronic device, mobile phone, game station, household electrical appliance and office equipment.In some cases, be different from text based interface, input command label, voice command and answer, braille interface or textual navigation, GUI by other visual indicators such as graphic icons and such as auxiliary symbol represent representative of consumer can information and action.

There is the various problem and restriction that are associated with current available Questionnaire systems and method.Such as, questionnaire can present following problem to user: " your lunch has how much amount? " questionnaire can present various answer options for therefrom selecting to user, such as " little ", " in " and " greatly ".User to the selection one of in these options usually not to the ability providing the individuality of questionnaire to provide interpreting user to answer.

Summary of the invention

Recognize herein need improve questionnaire and for providing the system of questionnaire.Such as, required is a kind of system being easy to assessment for providing questionnaire (such as, guiding questionnaire) to user simultaneously and answering the user that questionnaire asks a question.

Usually, assessment user may be difficult to the answer of the problem in questionnaire.Such as, if to user present problem " your lunch has how much amount? " if user selects " in ", then provide the individuality of questionnaire have no idea to determine user so-called " in " be what meaning.For user, " in " such as can refer to half dish, a whole dish or dish food partly.In another example, user may not assess quantity effectively.Such as, user in a situation or time point to " in " selection may be different from user in another situation or time point to " in " selection.Therefore, the questionnaire of improvement is provided herein, for providing the system of questionnaire with and related methods and computer-readable medium.

In one embodiment, provide a kind of computer implemented method of the answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, the method comprises: (a) computer system and the interactive display being operatively coupled to described computer system present inquiry to user, and the diet consumption of described inquiry and described user, exercise, health status or mental status are relevant; B () to be unified interactive display by described department of computer science, receive the answer to described inquiry from described user; And (c) computer processor, come to answer described in decipher based on one group of reference information, wherein said one group of reference information comprises the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of described health status or the current state of described mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise.The method monitors the health of described user after can being included in step (c).

In another embodiment, provide a kind of computer implemented method of the answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, the method comprises: (a) computer system and the interactive display being operatively coupled to described computer system present inquiry to user, and the diet consumption of described inquiry and described user, exercise, health status or mental status are relevant; B () to be unified interactive display by described department of computer science, receive the answer to described inquiry from described user; And (c) is by described computer system, come to answer described in decipher based on the calibration matrix with one group of reference information, described reference information generates by exert oneself degree, the current state of described health status or the graphically depicting of current state of described mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise.The method monitors the health of described user after can being included in step (c).

In another embodiment, there is provided herein a kind of computer-readable medium comprising machine executable code, described machine executable code realizes the method for the answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, the method comprises: (a) computer system and the interactive display being operatively coupled to described computer system present inquiry to user, and the diet consumption of described inquiry and described user, exercise, health status or mental status are relevant; B () to be unified interactive display by described department of computer science, receive the answer to described inquiry from described user; And (c) is by described computer system, come to answer described in decipher based on one group of reference information, wherein said one group of reference information comprises the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of described health status or the current state of described mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise.The method of the described answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status can be included in the health that step (c) monitors described user afterwards.

In another embodiment, provide a kind of system of the answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, this system comprises: interactive display, and it is arranged to the graphics item presenting machine generation to user; And be operatively coupled to the computer system of described interactive display, described computer system has the memory location comprising machine executable code, described machine executable code carrys out implementation method by the processor of described computer system, described method comprises: (a) presents inquiry by described department of computer science interactive display of unifying to user, and the diet consumption of described inquiry and described user, exercise, health status or mental status are relevant; B () to be unified interactive display by described department of computer science, receive the answer to described inquiry from described user; And (c) is by described computer system, come to answer described in decipher based on one group of reference information, wherein said one group of reference information comprises the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of described health status or the current state of described mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise.The method monitors the health of described user after can being included in step (c).

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to reference information, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, described reference information obtains by providing at least two selections illustrating element to user, wherein said diagram element describing deal size, firmly degree, the current state of health status or the current state of mental status.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to reference information, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, utilize described reference information to produce calibration matrix, to calibrate the answer of the relevant inquiry of the diet consumption of user couple and user, exercise, health status or mental status.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to interactive display, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, described interactive display is capacitive touch display or resistive touch display.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to reference information, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, obtained before the inquiry relevant to the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status or mental status to user or present described reference information.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to reference information, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, obtain after the inquiry relevant to the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status or mental status to user or present described reference information.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to reference information, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, obtain simultaneously to the inquiry relevant with user's diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status to user's or present described reference information.

In some embodiments, in the method for the answer of the above or inquiry that other diet consumptions relating to user couple and user described everywhere, exercise, health status or mental status are relevant herein, system or computer-readable medium, the calibration matrix be set up by the memory bit residing in computer system to answer described in decipher.

In some embodiments, in the method for the answer of the above or inquiry that other diet consumptions relating to user couple and user described, exercise, health status or mental status are relevant herein, system or computer-readable medium, by the graphic user interface (GUI) on interactive display, described user is presented in described inquiry everywhere.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to GUI, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, described GUI comprises customizable menu screen, described customizable menu screen comprises the selection of at least one in following application, two, three or four application: (a) diet consumption assembly, comprise the information of the diet about user, and for the interface of typing food, beverage or other relevant informations; B () firmly degree assembly, has the information relevant to the activity habit of user or timetable, and for the interface of typing user specific activities information, exercise or other user's specific activities relevant informations; C () health status assembly, has the information of the health about user, and for answering the interface of inquiry or the typing information relevant to the health status of described user; D () mental status assembly, has the information of the mental status about user, and for answering the interface of inquiry or the typing information relevant to the mental status of described user; And (e) calibrates questionnaire assembly, at least one wherein presenting the diagram element relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status to user is selected, and use described user to the selection of diagram element to build calibration matrix, with the perception of user described in decipher to the deal size of diet consumption, firmly degree, the current state of health status or the current state of mental status of exercise.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to calibration matrix, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, the memory bit that described calibration matrix resides in computer system is set up.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to the answer of user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, system or computer-readable mediums described, the internal calibration matrix of described user to the firmly perception of degree, the current state of described health status or the current state of described mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise is used to answer described in decipher everywhere.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to internal calibration matrix, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, the memory bit that described internal calibration matrix is stored in computer system is set up.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to customizable menu screen, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, described customizable menu screen comprises the selection of at least two methods in described application.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to system, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, described system is service point system, it is arranged to and performs one or more to sample and measure.

In some embodiments, above or herein in other method relating to service point system, system or computer-readable mediums described everywhere, described service point system is arranged to and performs one, two kinds, three kinds or more kind mensuration to sample.

In an embodiment described herein, provide a kind of computer implemented method of the answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status.The interactive display that described method comprises (a) computer system and is operatively coupled to described computer system presents inquiry to user, and the diet consumption of described inquiry and described user, exercise, health status and/or mental status are relevant, b () to be unified interactive display by described department of computer science, receive the answer to described inquiry from described user, and (c) computer processor, come to answer described in decipher based on one group of reference information, wherein said one group of reference information comprises graphically depicting of showing to described user, describedly graphically depict the deal size that described diet consumption is shown, the firmly degree of described exercise, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status, that wherein passes through that i) described user selects to mate best with its qualitative description graphically depicts and ii) map quantitative information that graphically depicting of selecting with described user be associated to quantize user's qualitative description, generate described one group of reference information.

There is provided content of the present invention to introduce the concept picked out in simplified form, described concept further describes in the following specific embodiments.Content of the present invention is not intended to key feature or the principal character of determining the theme of asking protection, is not intended to the scope of the theme for limit request protection yet.

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In the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 illustrates the illustrated examples of the method for providing questionnaire to user;

Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B illustrates the illustrated examples of the method for presenting questionnaire to user;

Fig. 3 illustrates the illustrated examples of calibration matrix;

Fig. 4 A and Fig. 4 B illustrates the illustrated examples had with the system of the service point equipment of other devices communicatings;

Fig. 5 illustrates the illustrated examples of graphic user interface;

Fig. 6 illustrates the illustrated examples of the screenshot capture of graphic user interface, and this graphic user interface has the investigation of the information for collecting the diet consumption about user;

Fig. 7 illustrates that user selects the illustrated examples of the screenshot capture of the graphic user interface of " Sliced ham " wherein;

Fig. 8 illustrates the illustrated examples of the screenshot capture of the reference problem of the information provided in the figure 7 by user for decipher;

Fig. 9 illustrates the illustrated examples of the screenshot capture of graphic user interface, and this graphic user interface has the investigation of the information for collecting the cycling activity about user;

Figure 10 illustrates the illustrated examples of the screenshot capture of display intensity " moderate ";

Figure 11 illustrates the illustrated examples of the screenshot capture of the reference problem of the information provided in Fig. 10 by user for decipher;

Figure 12 illustrates the illustrated examples of the screenshot capture of graphic user interface, and this graphic user interface has the investigation of the information for collecting the situation about user; And

Figure 13 illustrates the illustrated examples of the screenshot capture of the reference problem of the information provided in fig. 12 by user for decipher.

Embodiment

Although illustrate and described each embodiment at this, will it is evident that for those skilled in the art, such embodiment just provides by way of example.It may occur to persons skilled in the art that many changes, change and replacement, and do not depart from system and method provided in this article.

Term as used herein " health status " refers to physiological situation and/or mental status.Mental status can comprise mood or the state of mind (such as, dejected) of experimenter.

Term as used herein " service point system " refers to can in the place of experimenter or place or the system providing service (such as, detection, supervision, treatment, diagnosis, guidance, sample collection, ID checking, medical services, non-medical service etc.) near it.In some cases, service point system in the predetermined area, such as provides service at the family of experimenter or work place, grocery store or pharmacy.Service point system can comprise one or more service point equipment.

Term as used herein " experimenter " refers to individuality that is that its health is just being monitored or that need treatment or monitor.In some cases, experimenter accepts or needs treatment and be under the looking after of service point system or the individuality of serviced dot system effect.Experimenter can comprise patient.In some cases, experimenter is human patients.Experimenter can be the user of service point equipment (or system), or the user of the computer system be associated with service point equipment.In some cases, term " experimenter " and " user " can exchange use.

" cloud computing (or " cloud ") refers to provides shared resource, software and information as the system of utility by networks such as such as the Internets to computing machine and other equipment wherein to term as used herein.Cloud can comprise distributed network.But shared resource can comprise the various computer systems that can provide in a distributed fashion and operatively intercouple, such as server.

Term as used herein " diet consumption " refer to user absorb (or consumption) or user plan the material (solid, liquid or semisolid) that absorbs.The information of being correlated with the liquid of the fiber of the protein of the fat of the cholesterol of the medicine (or medicine) of consumption, the replenishers (such as, vitamin) consume or its metabolin, consumption, consumption, consumption, consumption, the carbohydrates of consumption, the salt of consumption and/or consumption can be comprised in some cases to the analysis of diet consumption.With the bar code information of the composition about food or the food of Download Info or consumption and/or one or more photo of liquid (such as a meal) can assist analysis to diet consumption.

Term as used herein " exercise " refers to the healthy User Activity contributing to strengthening or keep user.The exercise of user can comprise sports, daily exercise (such as, jog, run), manual labor and other training activities.

Term as used herein " health status " refers to the health of experimenter.Health status can comprise the function of experimenter and/or the level of metabolic efficiency.

Term as used herein " mental status " refers to the situation of the intelligence of experimenter, includes but not limited to physiological status and/or the mood of experimenter.

In some embodiments, there is provided herein for supporting for the system and method for user to the rapid evaluation of the answer of questionnaire problem.The method support that can be realized by system provided in this article provided herein for the calibration of user to the answer of the problem proposed in questionnaire (or investigation) period, to improve for the accuracy of user to the decipher of the answer of problem.In some cases, this permission system determines what user means by specific answer (such as quantity or quality).

In some embodiments, provide and be provided for user and can collect the system of physiological data that the change in various physiological parameter (such as, blood pressure, pulse frequency, oxygen saturation, electrophysiology, iris expansion and skin electric conductivity) is measured in response to problem.Such physiological data can supplement the questionnaire problem of collecting from user.Such information may be used for the health monitoring user, or in some cases for diagnosis and/or treatment user.

questionnaire method

In some embodiments, there is provided herein for calibrating the method for user to the answer of one or more problem.Questionnaire to comprise by user one or more with reference to the answer of problem and one or more problems of decipher.In some cases, with reference to problem for building calibration matrix, and this calibration matrix is subsequently for the answer of interpreting user to the problem provided in questionnaire.In some cases, questionnaire comprises the problem relevant to the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status and/or mental status.

In some embodiments, the interactive display that a kind of computer implemented method of the answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status comprises computer system and is operatively coupled to this computer system presents inquiry to user (or experimenter).Inquiry can relate to the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status and/or mental status, or in some cases, inquiry can relate to and other factors user-dependent, the sleep (such as, sleep pattern) of such as experimenter, mood, workout history, stress level, healthy history, Hormonal States and/or menstrual cycle.Next, computer system and interactive display, receive the answer to inquiry from user.Then make purpose processor carry out decipher based on one group of reference information to answer.In some embodiments, this group reference information comprises the expression of the deal size of diet consumption, firmly degree, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status of exercise.Described expression can be illustrated, can listen or its combination, such as video.In some cases, this group reference information comprises the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status of the deal size of diet consumption, exercise.

In some cases, by providing to user, reference information is obtained to the selection of at least 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 15 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 or 100 diagram elements.Diagram element can describe deal size, firmly degree, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status.

In some embodiments, before inquiry, reference information is obtained.That is, the equipment of inquiry or system is realized the forward direction user of actual inquires in referring now to problem.In other embodiments, after inquiry, reference information is obtained.Under these circumstances, the equipment of inquiry or system is realized at the rear line of actual inquires in referring now to problem.In other embodiments, side by side reference information is obtained with inquiry.Under these circumstances, the equipment or the system that realize inquiry present actual inquires and reference problem to (such as, in the same page) while of user.

In some embodiments, the interactive display that computer implemented method for the answer of calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status comprises computer system and is operatively coupled to this computer system presents an inquiry to user, and the diet consumption of this inquiry and user, exercise, health status and/or mental status are relevant.Next, computer system and interactive display, receive the answer to inquiry from user.Next, computer system, carrys out decipher based on the calibration matrix with one group of reference information and answers.Can by firmly degree, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status of the deal size of diet consumption, exercise generating reference information.

Fig. 1 illustrates provided herein for providing the method 100 of questionnaire to user.This questionnaire can be realized by system provided herein and equipment.System or equipment comprises one or more processor of the machine readable code for performing implementation method 100.Machine readable code is stored in the memory location of system or equipment.In some cases, machine readable code is stored in remote system, and performs in remote system in some cases.

In first step 101, the system realizing questionnaire to user present have one or more problem (such as " your how are you feeling today today? ") inquiry.Can by figure, text, audio frequency and/or video elementary, the role such as asked a question to user or the video of animation, present problem to user.These elements can be provided to user by the interactive display of the system or equipment of implementation method 100.Next, in second step 102, user inputs answer (such as, " I feels not bad ") in the system of implementation method 100.User can use interactive display or other input equipments of system, and such as touch-screen (such as, capacitive touch screen, resistive touch screen), voice activation and/or gesture input answer.Next, in third step 103, system is carried out decipher based on one or more reference information and is answered.In some cases, system determines in second step 102 what user means by the answer of user.In this example, what system interpreting user in the situation of happiness means by " fortunately ".Next, in the 4th step 104, system determines in questionnaire, whether have the accessory problem that will present to user.Then step 101-step 103 can be repeated where necessary to present accessory problem to user.

In some embodiments, the answer of interpreting user comprises provides with reference to problem to user and receives with reference to the answer of problem from user.With reference to Fig. 1, during third step 103, system uses the one or more answers for the reference problem proposed to user received from user to carry out the answer of interpreting user.In step 105, to user in refer now to problem (such as " which picture is most closely similar to mood ' fortunately '? ").Next, in step 106, user selects picture from option.In some embodiments, repeat step 105 and step 106, such as to obtain the assessment of user for the answer of the various types of problems relevant to the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status and/or mental status, or collect additional answer with the answer 103 of interpreting user.System uses user to carry out the answer 103 of interpreting user to the answer with reference to problem then.

The answer of interpreting user is may be used for reference to (or calibration) problem.In some embodiments, reference information can comprise the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status of deal size to diet consumption, exercise.Can each questionnaire session (" session ") at least 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,20,30,40,50,100 time or more time, or every a session, or each group session once, or periodically, such as at least every 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,20,30 day or more sky, to user in referring now to problem.

Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B illustrates the illustrated examples of the method for presenting questionnaire to user.In fig. 2, in the first screen, present problem 201 to user, that is, " your apple has much? "Present three options 202 to user, that is, " little ", " in " and " greatly ".User selects " in ".With reference to Fig. 2 B, in the second screen, system to user in referring now to (or calibration) problem 203, namely, " which pictures is similar to medium apple best? "In some embodiments, calibration problem measure user to such as deal size etc. quantitatively or the perception of qualitative factor.System also presents the image of five apples to user, at least one Apple image wherein can with user to word " in " definition corresponding.Or, system can first to user in referring now to problem 203, and in presenting problem 201 subsequently to user.Alternative as another, can simultaneously (such as, on the screen at the same) in referring now to problem 203 and problem 201.User enables system interpreting user to the answer of problem 201 to the selection one of in image 204.In some embodiments, this may be used for normalization, and other are answered, and such as other relevant to the diet of user are answered.Numeral below each image in image 204 is numeric representation that can hide user, image 204.Such as, numeral " 3 " represents the apple in centre.

Although Fig. 2 B provides five images to calibrate the size of apple, but also can with the apple of any number, the apple of such as at least 1,2,3,4,5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10,20,30,40 or more different size, presents calibration problem to user.Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B describes in the situation of apple, but Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B is also applicable to other situations, is such as applicable to other foods and maybe can consumes material, exercise, health status and mental status.

In some embodiments, the image of object can be presented on screen, image wherein on screen have with measure-alike height, length and/or the width of the actual object presented as image (such as, if the true altitude of apple is 8 centimetres, then the image of this apple on screen also has the height of 8 centimetres).In some embodiments, the image of object can be presented together by the image of the Reference of same ratio BITBUS size on screen (such as, tennis, 25 cent coins, ruler).By presenting the image of object together by the image of same ratio Reference of BITBUS size on screen, the dimension relationship of certain size of the image on screen with the actual object of the image corresponded on screen can easily get up by user.Such as, if the image of the object on screen has the height different from the size of corresponding actual object, length and/or width (such as, if the true altitude of object is 10 centimetres, but the image of this object on screen only has the height of 2 centimetres), then this may be useful.

In some embodiments, present once with reference to problem to user.In questionnaire problem subsequently, use user to the answer of this reference problem.Like this, questionnaire problem all can be followed by calibration problem in either case.

In some cases, system utilizes and carrys out the answer of interpreting user to questionnaire problem subsequently to the answer of calibration problem.System can propose calibration problem to assess the accuracy of calibration answer with predetermined space or at pseudorandom testing to user during questionnaire.

System can present the reference problem in particular category (such as, diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status) to user and receive answer from user.This provide the calibration specific to classification.For the follow-up questionnaire problem in same classification, system uses the calibration specific to classification to carry out interpreting user and answers.

Calibration problem and/or the option for allowing user (or experimenter) select in calibration problem can be fixed the answer of previous calibration or questionnaire problem based on user, or can change based on the answer of user.In some cases, the answer for calibration problem presented to user is selected to be the function (such as, see embodiment 3) of user to the answer of questionnaire problem.

In some cases, calibration problem is for assessment of the internal consistency of user.The situation of this answer to questionnaire problem that system marks user's input wherein can be allowed inconsistent with the answer of user to other problems.System can the answer of frequently collimating marks.In other cases, calibration problem can be got rid of for selecting and the needs to the corresponding image of the answer of problem.For example, referring to Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B, once calibrate system, the calibration of Fig. 2 B can have been skipped, and system can to use the prior responses of calibration problem determining that user passes through " in " what means.

In some cases, system constructing and/or renewal have the calibration matrix of the answer to calibration problem.Only lift a few example, calibration matrix can comprise columns and rows, and described row have such as food item or movable water equality calibration item, and described row is used for amount firmly or degree.Answer (such as, seeing Fig. 2 B) to the diagram of problem to be represented by numeral.Such as, griggles and medium apple can respectively represented by numerals 1 and 3.System can comprise the multiple calibration matrixs for dissimilar problem (such as relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status and mental status problem).The memory bit that calibration matrix can be stored in system is set up.

In some embodiments, calibration matrix is arranged in the memory location of system, in the hard disk drive of such as system or data storage cell (such as, database).Therefore calibration matrix can be internal calibration matrix.In other embodiments, calibration matrix is the external calibration matrix of the memory location being arranged in remote computer system, and it can use network to visit by system.In this example, calibration matrix is stored in cloud, and uses wired or wireless internet connectivity to visit by system.

Fig. 3 illustrates the example of calibration matrix 300 provided herein.This matrix comprises row and is orthogonal to the row of described row, and is positioned at the cell arranged with the point of intersection of row.Matrix 300 is for diet consumption classification, and it can about the food item absorbed by user.Row have with the potential size of food item (that is, " little ", " in " and " greatly ") corresponding value.Row have the numeric representation of the user-selected image corresponding with described size.Such as, the cell be positioned at for the row " little " of " apple " has numeral 1, and it corresponds to the leftmost diagram picture in Fig. 2 B; And the cell being arranged in row " " has numeral 3, it corresponds to the intermediate image in Fig. 2 B.

In some cases, system provides for directly comparing to the object of sizing to user, and this may be used for supplementary calibration data.In this example, system requirements user selects the greater (or smaller) in two projects.

Multiple matrix can be used to calibrate the answer of user to the problem in each classification.Calibration matrix may be used for calibrating the mental status (such as, mood) of user couple and user, tempers the answer of the questionnaire problem that (such as, activity level) and/or health status (such as, ill) are correlated with.Calibration matrix is not limited to classification provided herein; The calibration matrix of other classifications can be provided for.

Questionnaire described herein (or investigation) can be implemented in there is one or more processor such as central processing unit (CPU) any computer system on.In some cases, questionnaire is performed by service point equipment (seeing below), and this service point equipment is arranged to the sample of process experimenter in some cases.In other cases, questionnaire is performed by computer system, and this computer system can not be service point equipment, but can with service point devices communicating or can with server communication, this server such as by network and with service point devices communicating.

system

In some embodiments, there is provided herein the system for realizing questionnaire (or investigation).System can be service point system (or equipment).In some embodiments, a kind of system of the answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status comprises interactive display and is operatively coupled to the computer system of this interactive display.Such as, interactive display can the bus of computer system or network and communicate with computer system.Interactive display is arranged to the graphics item presenting machine generation to user.Computer system comprises memory location, and this memory location comprises the processor of computer system to realize the machine executable code of method provided herein.

In this example, memory location comprises the machine executable code realizing following method: the method comprises computer system and interactive display presents inquiry to user, and the diet consumption of this inquiry and user, exercise, health status and/or mental status are relevant.Next, computer system and interactive display, receive the answer to inquiry from user.Computer system, carrys out decipher based on one group of reference information and answers.This group reference information comprises the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status of the deal size of diet consumption, exercise.

Interactive display can be capacitive touch display or resistive touch display.Display can have other functions, such as from the ability of user's collection of biological characteristic information.Such as, two touch (such as, two fingers are put over the display by user) that display may be used for one or two hand by means of user measure the body fat percentage of user.Display can also have chemical sensor or electric transducer, this chemical sensor or electric transducer for sense the state that may contribute to identifying experimenter or health status, specific to the factor of user (or experimenter).

In some embodiments, service point equipment can comprise the display with user interface (UI).In some cases, by the mutual graphic user interface of experimenter and equipment (GUI) can be enable to provide user interface to user.Therefore display can be interactive display.The example of display and/or user interface comprises touch-screen, video display, LCD screen, CRT shields, PDP display, light source (such as, LED, OLED), around or across equipment, the surface based on IR LED of module or other assemblies, based on the surface of pixels sense (pixelsense), infrared camera or the surface based on other capturing technologies, projector, projection screen, hologram, button, mouse, button, knob, slide mechanism, operating rod, audio-frequency assembly, voice activation, loudspeaker, microphone, camera (such as, 2D, 3D camera), multiple camera (such as, may be used for catching gesture and motion), with the glasses/contact lenses of built-in screen, video capture, haptic interface, temperature sensor, body sensor, body-mass index sensor, motion sensor and/or pressure transducer.Any description of display and/or user interface is all applicable to display and/or the user interface of any type herein.

Display can provide information to the user of equipment (such as, service point equipment).User interface can provide information to operator (or user) and/or receive information from operator (or user).In some embodiments, such information comprises the information of visual information, audio-frequency information, sensory information, thermal information, pressure information, movable information or any other type.Sound, video and color-coded information (such as red LED indicates module just in use) can be used to using service point system or infosystem or providing feedback by the user touched or otherwise connect with system.In some embodiments, the user interface of equipment or other sensors detect whether there is people close to equipment, and cause equipment " to wake up " (that is, being activated).User interface or other sensors can also be used for system being placed in " sleep " when any user not detected.

In some cases, comprise in following application at least one application selection interactive screen on present graphic user interface (GUI): (a) diet consumption assembly, comprise the information of the diet about user, and for the interface of typing food, beverage or other relevant informations; B () firmly degree assembly, has the information relevant to the activity habit of user or timetable, and for the interface of typing user specific activities information, exercise or other user's specific activities relevant informations; C () health status assembly, has the information of the health about user, and for answering the interface of inquiry and/or the typing information relevant to the health status of user; D () mental status assembly, has the information of the mental status about user, and for answering the interface of inquiry and/or the typing information relevant to the mental status of user; And (e) calibrates questionnaire assembly, at least one wherein presenting the diagram element (comprise text, video and/or sound) relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status and/or mental status to user is selected, and use user to the selection of diagram element to build calibration matrix, with the perception of interpreting user to the deal size of diet consumption, firmly degree, the current state of health status or the current state of mental status of exercise.In some cases, GUI comprises customizable menu screen, and this customizable menu screen can allow user or other individualities (such as, health care worker, such as doctor) to carry out customized menus screen.

Service point system (or equipment) provided herein can be the as people such as Holmes the 13/244th, No. 947 U.S. Patent applications and be filed in the title on September 25th, 2012 described in the PCT/US2012/057155 PCT application of (" SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-ANALYSIS "), all for all objects, complete edition is incorporated into this to above-mentioned document.Service point system can to sample perform one or more, two or more, 3 kinds or more plant, 4 kinds or more plant, 5 kinds or more plant, 10 kinds or more plant, 20 kinds or more plant, 30 kinds or more plant, 40 kinds or more plant, 50 kinds or more plant or 100 kinds or more plant and measure.In some cases, service point system can perform sample preparation, follow-up data process, and performs data analysis in some cases.In other cases, service point system can perform sample preparation and transmit pretreated data for data processing and in some cases for analyzing to remote system.

Fig. 4 A illustrates the example of the service point system (or equipment) 400 with display 401.This display is arranged to provides user interface 402 to experimenter, such as graphic user interface (GUI).Display 401 can be touch display, such as resistive touch display or capacitive touch display.Service point system 400 is arranged to and communicates with remote equipment 403, for example, described remote equipment be such as personal computer, smart phone (such as, support the phone of Android), flat computer (such as, ) or server.Service point system 400 has central processing unit (CPU) 404, storer 405, communication module (or interface) 406, hard disk drive 407 and data repository 408.Storer 405, communication module 406, hard disk drive 407 and data repository 408 are operatively coupled to CPU 404.Data repository 408 can comprise storer and hard disk drive.In some cases, data repository 408 is got rid of.In some embodiments, service point system 400 comprises the camera 409 (or comprising in some cases such as multiple cameras of three-dimensional imaging) for image and video capture.Service point system 400 can comprise the audio recorders for catching sound.Image and/or video can be provided to experimenter by display 401.In other embodiments, camera 409 can be motion sensing input equipment (such as, ).

Camera 409 can be two-dimensional camera or three-dimensional camera.Camera 409 can also catching static images and/or video feed except sound.In some cases, camera 409 is thermal imaging cameras, is suitable for collecting infrared radiation (IR) and the temperature correlation of the light of collection with the user such as in the visual field of camera 409 is joined.In some cases, camera 409 is without lens camera, such as calculates camera (such as, Franken camera (Frankencamera)).

Service point system 400 is arranged to and realizes questionnaire method described herein.Such as, service point system 400 can be implemented in the method 100 provided in Fig. 1.Such as can present questionnaire problem from away from service point system 400 part to user by the user interface (such as, GUI) of network and remote equipment 403.

With reference to Fig. 4 B, service point system 400 is arranged to by network 410 and carries out network service with other equipment, and this network 410 can be Intranet/or the Internet.In the example shown in the series of figures, service point system 400 carries out network service away from the first computer system 411 of service point system 400 part, second computer system 412 and the 3rd computer system 413 with being positioned at.One or more computer systems in computer system 411,412 and 413 can enable other users remotely access services dot system 400.In some cases, the one or more computer systems in computer system 411,412 and 413 are the data repositories for stored user information.In some cases, the one or more computer systems in computer system 411,412 and 413 are arranged to be supported in carries out data processing (such as, to the analysis that questionnaire is answered) away from service point system 400 part.

Service point system 400 can communicate with network 410 by the communication module 406 of service point system 400 and communicate with 413 with computer system 411,412.Communication module 406 can comprise the wired or wireless interface be respectively used to network 410 wired or wireless communication.

In some cases, service point system 400 is arranged to and is communicated with network 410 by wireless network access point 414.Wireless network access point 414 can be arranged to and use various wireless communications mode to communicate, and for example, described wireless communications mode is such as 2G, 3G, 4G, Long Term Evolution (LTE), WiFi or bluetooth.The communication module 406 of system 400 can make system 400 wirelessly can communicate with wireless network access point 414.

Remote equipment 403 can communicate with service point system 400 via the wave point of service point system 400, and this wave point can be comprised in communication module 406.In this example, radio communication can via WiFi or Bluetooth connectivity.As shown in Figure 4 A, remote equipment 403 directly communicates with service point system 400.In figure 4b, remote equipment 403 communicates with service point system 400 via wireless network access point 414.In this example, remote equipment 403 to be communicated with service point system 400 by network 410 subsequently by wireless network access point 414.In another example, remote equipment 403 is with network 410 and communicate with wireless network access point 414 subsequently, and this wireless network access point 414 is directly or by another wireless network access point (not shown) and system 400 radio communication.

One or more sensor can be merged in service point system 400 and/or user interface 402.Described sensor can be provided on system casing, in the outside of system casing or system casing.Other any sensor types described herein can be merged everywhere.Some examples of sensor comprise optical sensor, sound, imaging, temperature sensor, motion sensor, depth transducer, pressure transducer, electrical characteristic sensor, gyroscope or acceleration transducer (such as, accelerometer) and pulse blood oxygen instrument.

In this example, service point system 400 comprises accelerometer, this accelerometer such as detects service point system 400 and when to be moved or when service point system 400 is not positioned on preferred or desirable surface (such as, horizontal surface), and such as when system goes over.In another example, when accelerometer detection system is moved.Under these circumstances, service point system 400 can be closed to prevent the damage of each assembly to system 400.Before closing, service point system 400 can to take on system 400 by camera 409 or around the picture of presumptive area.

User interface 402 (such as, graphic user interface) provides questionnaire to experimenter (or user).This questionnaire can comprise one or more problem.Questionnaire can be guide questionnaire, comprises the diet consumption of experimenter, exercise, health status and/or mental status or the series of problems relevant to the diet consumption of experimenter, exercise, health status and/or mental status.In addition, user interface 402 data that can show the information relevant to the operation of service point system 400 and/or collect from system 400.User interface 402 can show the information relevant to the scheme that can perform in service point system 400.User interface 402 can comprise the relevant information of scheme that is that provide to the source from service point system 400 outside or that provide from service point system 400.User interface 402 can show accesses relevant information to experimenter and/or for the health care of experimenter.Such as, user interface 402 can show the information relevant to the medical insurance of experimenter's identity and experimenter.User interface 402 can show to the scheduling of service point system 400 and/or process and operate relevant information.

User interface 402 can receive one or more input from the user of service point system 400.Such as, user interface 402 can receive the answer of the problem provided to experimenter the part as questionnaire.In addition, user interface 402 can receive the instruction about one or more mensuration that will be performed by service point system 400 or process.User interface 402 can from the instruction of user's reception about one or more sample handling procedure that will occur in system 400.User interface can receive the instruction analyzing thing about one or more that will observe.

User interface 402 can receive the information relevant to the identity of experimenter.Experimenter's identity information by another operator's typing of experimenter or equipment, or itself can carry out imaging by user interface 402 or otherwise catches.Such identification can comprise biological information, the identification card signed and issued or other unique discernible physiology (such as, biological) or identification characteristics, material or data.User interface 402 can comprise the one or more sensors of auxiliary reception about the identification information of experimenter.User interface 402 can have the one or more problem relevant with the identity of experimenter or instruction that experimenter can answer.In some cases, user interface 402 can ask password and/or one or more safety problem from experimenter.

In some embodiments, user interface 402 is arranged to and shows questionnaire to experimenter.Questionnaire can comprise the problem about the diet consumption of experimenter, exercise, health status and/or mental status.Questionnaire can be the guiding questionnaire with one or more problems that the one or more screens by such as showing on the display of display 401 or remote equipment (such as remote equipment 403) present to experimenter.Can to experimenter in turn (that is, one by one) present multiple problem.Can by one of in text, image, video or sound or its combination present questionnaire to experimenter.In some cases, user interface 402 is graphic user interfaces, and on display 401, presents questionnaire by one or more elements in text, figure, Voice & Video element to experimenter.

In some cases, remote equipment 403 comprises the camera being arranged to and obtaining the visual and/or audible information relevant to the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status and/or mental status.Visual and/or audible information like this (such as, image, video, sound) may be used for making answer to questionnaire problem, or the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status and/or mental status can be monitored for the information of collecting to make system 400.In this example, remote equipment (such as, ) camera may be used for catching the image of food item.This image can in being drawn towards system 400 subsequently or guiding remote system into, all cloudlike.System 400 can in using this image as the answer (such as, if the picture of system 400 requires that user takes " greatly " apple) to questionnaire problem subsequently.Or system 400 can analyze such information of being collected by remote equipment 403, to determine the deal size of diet consumption, firmly degree, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status of exercise.In this example, system 400 can analyze the image by the food item of the cameras capture of remote equipment 403, to estimate the deal size of food item, and estimates the caloric information of food item in some cases.

System 400 can use by user such as by the information that remote equipment 403 is collected, and with the answer of replenish user to questionnaire problem, or tests for the answer of accuracy to user in some cases.System 400 can use such user to input to upgrade or otherwise improve the calibration matrix of user.In some cases, such user's input comprises the photo (or picture) of the project relevant to the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status and/or mental status.Such user's input can provide with reference data, and this reference data is such as having the reference picture of the project of known dimensions (such as, diameter, thickness).In some cases, reference data and user's input can be provided in same frame.

Such as, system 400 can ask user to take the picture of " Big Apple ", and user can take the picture of the Big Apple that user thinks.The reference picture of the project of the size that system 400 can ask user's camera system 400 easily to identify, the such as picture of coin (such as, 25 cent coins).Reference picture may be used for the size of the picture determining apple.Reference picture can be provided in the frame identical with the picture of apple.The picture of " Big Apple " captured by user and the answer for the calibration problem for apple size can compare by system 400 then, are acceptable or unacceptable with the calibration of certainty annuity.In the case of the latter, system can upgrade the calibration about apple size of system in view of the answer of user.Such as, system 400 can the apple taken by user of digitizing picture, for picture distribute indicate the size of apple in picture numerical value, by size, how perception apple (such as " Big Apple ") is associated with user, and input this numerical value under " Big Apple " in the calibration matrix (such as, seeing Fig. 3) of system.

On the display 401 of system 400, or on the display of remote equipment 403, or can user interface be realized on the display of first computer system 411, second computer system 412 and/or the 3rd computer system 413, such as graphic user interface (GUI).

Can to generate and display (or providing) text, figure, the hardware of Voice & Video element and/or software present text, figure, Voice & Video element to experimenter by being arranged to.Software such as can comprise with machine readable code, such as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) (such as, HTML 5), the form of JavaScript, C sharp, Java/J++, C++ (or other OO codes) realizes the web browser of (such as, compiling) machine-executable instruction.In some cases, by web browser, etc. presenting such software.Graphic element can comprise image, small tool and the icon of assisting and realizing questionnaire.

User interface 402 can receive the additional information relevant to the diet consumption of experimenter, exercise, health status and/or mental status.This additional information can by the direct typing of experimenter, or by another operator's typing of system 400.Experimenter can obtain the prompting of one or more problem from user interface or instruction, and can as answer entry information.Described problem or instruction can about the life of experimenter qualitative in (such as, subject perception how).In some embodiments, the information provided by experimenter is qualitatively, instead of quantitative.But in some cases, experimenter can also provide quantitative information, for example, the body weight of such as experimenter.In some cases, the information provided by experimenter can about from one or more analyte levels in the sample of experimenter.

In some embodiments, system 400 is arranged to and one or more peripheral communications, and this one or more peripherals is arranged to the information of collecting about the diet consumption of experimenter, exercise, health status and/or mental status.Described one or more peripherals can be selected from: scale, blood pressure monitor, blood sugar monitoring instrument, heart rate monitor, electronic equipment, pulse blood oxygen instrument and/or other local analytics systems with camera.Electronic equipment with camera can comprise image recognition software; Or system 400 or remote server can comprise image recognition software, to make system 400 can from the food of the picture recognition experimenter captured by electronic equipment.

In some cases, in questionnaire (or investigation) period, service point system 400 can also collect that experience to experimenter or the current therapy taked and/or the relevant information of medicine.User interface 402 utility efficiency or similar technology can point out experimenter.Under these circumstances, questionnaire can comprise figure, image, video, audio frequency and/or other media.

Questionnaire can have a fixing basket and/or instruction, or alternatively has problem that is unfixed and that can change based on the answer of user.In some cases, questionnaire can provide a fixing basket to user, and in other cases, problem can change.In this example, service point system 400 has machine learning algorithm, this machine learning algorithm from experimenter to the answer learning of problem comprised with reference to problem, and based on experimenter answer and accessory problem is provided.In some cases, problem is changed in response to the previous problem of user based on the information collected from system 400.Investigation (such as, the order of problem and/or content) dynamically can change according to the answer of experimenter.In this example, if system 400 determines that experimenter is inconsistent to the answer with reference to problem about experimenter, then system 400 can propose follow-up problem.

Can be stored in system 400 and/or such as about the identification information of experimenter and/or the additional information relevant to experimenter and be transferred to external unit or cloud computing infrastructure by network 410.Such information may be used for analyzing data relevant to the sample collected from experimenter, or for the health that monitors experimenter or happiness.Such information can also by Insurance providers for making the decision of the insurance coverage (such as, premium) about experimenter.

The user interface 402 of system 400 and/or sensor can collect the information about experimenter or environment, and this environment is the environment of experimenter or the environment relevant to experimenter.Such as, system 400 can pass through screen, thermal sensor, optical sensor, imaging device, motion sensor, depth transducer, pressure transducer, electrical characteristic sensor, acceleration transducer (such as, accelerometer) and/or described herein or known in the art any/or the sensor of other types collect information.In this example, optical sensor can be a part for camera (for example, such as camera 409) or camera.Optical sensor can catch one or more still image of experimenter and/or the video image of experimenter.

By camera 409, system 400 can collect the image of experimenter.This image can be the 2D image of experimenter.System 400 can collect multiple images of experimenter, and these images may be used for determining that the 3D of experimenter represents.System 400 can collect the disposable image of experimenter.System 400 can collect the image passed in time of experimenter.System 400 can collect image by any frequency.In some embodiments, system 400 can collect image in real time continuously.System 400 can collect the video of experimenter.System 400 can collect the image relevant to any part of experimenter, and described part includes but not limited to: the whole health of the hand of the face of the eyes of experimenter or retina, experimenter, the neck of experimenter, experimenter, the finger tip of experimenter, the trunk of experimenter and/or experimenter.The image collected of experimenter may be used for mark experimenter and/or for diagnosing, treating, monitor or prevent the disease of experimenter.In some cases, image may be used for determining experimenter height, enclose long, body weight or body-mass index.System 400 can also catch the image of the identification card of experimenter, insurance card or any other objects be associated with experimenter.

In some cases, camera 409 may be used for user can be communicated with another user (such as health care worker).System 400 can allow user to be live with another telex network to make to communicate in a synchronous manner, or communicates in an asynchronous manner.Under asynchronous communication, system 400 collects the sound of user, image and/or video and remote system to another user transmits sound, image and/or the video collected, and this another user can consult sound, image and/or the video collected by time point afterwards then.

Service point system 400 can also collect audio-frequency information from experimenter.Such audio-frequency information can comprise the sound of the voice of experimenter or one or more bioprocess of experimenter.Such as, audio-frequency information can comprise the sound of the heartbeat of experimenter, or the sound be associated with subject breathes.

Service point system 400 can collect the biological information about experimenter.Such as, service point system 400 can collect the information of the body temperature about experimenter.In another example, service point system 400 can collect the information of the pulse frequency about experimenter.In some cases, service point system 400 can scan the tissue of experimenter or body part at least partially, the retina of such as experimenter, fingerprint or the lines of the hand.In some cases, service point system 400 can determine the body weight of experimenter.Service point system 400 can also be collected sample from experimenter and be checked order to the gene (such as, DNA) of experimenter or its part.Service point system 400 can also be collected sample from experimenter and carry out Proteomic analysis to it.Such information can be used in the operation of system 400.Such information can be relevant to the diagnosis of experimenter or identity.In some embodiments, service point system 400 can collect the information of the operator about system, and this operator can be different from experimenter or can not have different from experimenter.Such information may be used for the identity of the operator of verification system.

In some cases, such information of being collected by service point system 400 may be used for identifying experimenter.The identity of experimenter can be verified for insurance or therapeutic purposes.Experimenter's identity can be tied to the medical records of experimenter.In some cases, the record of experimenter can be linked to from the data of experimenter and/or sample collection by service point system 400.Experimenter's identity can also be tied in health insurance (or other disbursers) record of experimenter.Can according to pass on from pharmacy databases, frequency that medicine upgrades concludes the compliance of drug administration scheme.

In some cases, can expand with experimenter the such information comprising medical records to the answer of questionnaire problem.This can allow health care worker the answer of questionnaire problem relevant to the diet consumption of the health of experimenter and/or mental status and experimenter couple and experimenter, exercise, health status and/or mental status to be associated.

The qualification determining experimenter be may be used for the answer of questionnaire problem.In this example, individuality arrives service point place and performs qualification test and carries out one or more detections to check that whether this individuality is qualified.Individual then can be answered by prescreen the one or more problems provided by questionnaire.As herein other everywhere as described in, questionnaire can comprise with reference to problem.Questionnaire can comprise the problem of life style (such as, diet, exercise, custom) about experimenter and/or medical history.Doctor can perform the health check-up to individuality.In some cases, questionnaire comprises the problem about the diet consumption of experimenter, exercise, health status and/or mental status.The health status of experimenter can be relevant to the physiological situation of experimenter.The mental status of experimenter can be relevant to the mood of experimenter or other mental status (such as dejected).Questionnaire can be the guiding questionnaire with the multiple problems presented to user with predefined procedure, and described problem is the diet consumption of experimenter, exercise, the problem of health status and/or mental status or the problem relevant to the diet consumption of experimenter, exercise, health status and/or mental status.In some cases, system (or subsystem) by service point system 400 presents questionnaire to experimenter, and this system (or subsystem) is arranged to answer learning from user and in response to the answer of experimenter to customize contingency question.In some cases, questionnaire result can also be used to prepare SPU for the complications of any expectation in sample preparation and/or chemical assay.In this example, the experimenter he or she being designated oneself smoker can trigger the mark of the high hematocrit for expection, thus needs from carefully extracting blood plasma through centrifugal sample.

In some embodiments, life style suggestion can be made by service point system 400 and/or the system be associated with service point system 400 to experimenter.Such suggestion can provide before experimenter completes questionnaire, meanwhile or afterwards.Such suggestion can be made based on the information of collecting in questionnaire, medical records, physicochemical data and/or testing result.Such as, system can to experimenter provide about experimenter's pair level relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status and/or mental status or amount perception how with can the relevant information of quantitative criteria.In some embodiments, service point system 400 and/or the system that is associated with service point system 400 can help to educate experimenter about his or her health status or other situations.

In some embodiments, service point system 400 carrys out the answer of decipher experimenter to problem by reference information, and this reference information comprises the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status of the deal size of diet consumption, exercise.Described reference information can be contained in the calibration matrix in the memory location (such as, high-speed cache, hard disk drive, flash memory) of the system of being stored in 400.Or, decipher experimenter answer can be carried out by being positioned at away from the server of service point system 400 part.This server can comprise calibration matrix.

In some cases, service point system 400 and/or health care personnel can collect the biological information about monitored experimenter, for example, and such as blood pressure, body weight, body temperature.This can be coupled with the detection of the sample collected from experimenter, and this sample can be processed by service point system 400.All information can link, and can be visited by Clinical Decision Support Systems.In some embodiments, can in all information of the record internal chaining of single experimenter.Such process may be used for annual inspection or preventatively to look after.Such process can also be used for diagnosis, treatment and/or monitor disease.

In some embodiments, service point system 400 is operatively coupled to the one or more sensors for carrying out the qualitative of experimenter or quantitative measurment.Such measurement can be relevant to the diet consumption of experimenter, exercise, health status and/or mental status.Described one or more sensor can be selected from: body weight sensor, eye sensor, body temperature trans, pre ure tra ducer, heart rate sensor, brain-wave sensor, humidity sensor and pH sensor.In this example, during the scale of experimenter is arranged to the measurement carried out the body weight of experimenter experimenter or communicate with service point system 400 afterwards.Service point system 400 can be collected the body weight of experimenter and is stored in memory location, stores together with the timestamp that the point of the adjoint body weight with measuring experimenter is associated in some cases.Or scale can transmit the information relevant to the body weight of experimenter to remote equipment 403, and this remote equipment 403 can transmit this information subsequently to system 400.

The information about the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status and/or mental status can be preserved in user profiles.In some cases, can equipment or the system of method provided herein realized, for example, such as in the memory location of the system 400 of Fig. 4 A and 4B, preserve profile.In other cases, can away from realize method provided herein system equipment computer system memory location in preserve profile.In some cases, profile can be accessed by user and edit, upgrades or delete.

In some cases, details about the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status and/or mental status can be provided by the equipment be associated with user.Such as, can by have accelerometer or passometer and for the equipment of the software recording travel distance provide may be relevant to the activity of user, the distance of user's walking.Such equipment can with for keep the diet consumption of user, exercise, health status and/or mental status the equipment (such as system 400) of record communicate.Such system can with for collecting such information and the system communication for upgrading user profiles.Such as, information can upload to system 400 and activity diary for upgrading user.

Exemplarily, the accelerometer that can be contained in portable electric appts (such as, iPhone) can be used to measure the intensity of User Activity.Strength information can be sent to and keep the diet consumption of user, exercise, the equipment of record of health status and/or mental status or system, such as system 400, and is calibrated further by reference information.In some cases, above-described method calibration intensity information on a portable electronic device can be used.

In some cases, system 400 comprises each subsystem to collect physiological data from user (or experimenter).The example of subsystem includes but not limited to: blood pressure cuff, pulse blood oxygen instrument, temperature sensor (such as, thermometer), a lie detector and the iris scanner for measuring iris expansion.Subsystem can be contained in system 400, or is coupled to described equipment as peripherals.

System (or equipment) 400 can be as at the 13/244th of Holmes, the 13/244th of the people such as No. 946 U.S. Patent applications (" SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING ANDTRANSMITTING ASSAY RESULTS ") and Holmes, as described in No. 947 U.S. Patent applications (" SYSTEMS AND METHODS FORMULTI-ANALYSIS "), above-mentioned application is incorporated into this by reference and in full.Such as, system 400 can comprise installation multiple modules on the support structure.Individual module in described multiple module can comprise sample preparation station, measure station and/or measuring station.In addition, system 400 can be arranged to execution (a) and be selected from sample preparation, centrifugal, be separated and at least one Sample Preparation Procedure chemically treated, and (b) is selected from immunoassays, nucleic acid determination, based on the mensuration of acceptor, cell counting measuring, colorimetric estimation, enzymatic determination, electrophoretic determination, electrochemical gaging, spectroscopic assay, chromatographic determination, micro-mensuration, landform measures, calorimetry, turbidimetric analysis turbidimetry, CA, radioactive isotope measures, survey sticky mensuration, condensation measures, time of setting test, protein synthesis measures, Histological determining, cultivate and measure, polytype mensuration that Morie osmolarity measures and combines.The determination unit of the isolation comprised in described polytype mensuration Help of System 400 performs.

In some cases, system 400 can by the 13/244th of Balwani, disclosed in No. 836 U.S. Patent applications (" NETWORK CONNECTIVITY SYSTEMS ANDMETHODS "), system and method visits network, and this application is incorporated into this by reference and in full.

Information can be exchanged to from user by the graphic user interface be implemented on system or equipment provided herein.In some embodiments, graphic user interface comprises multiple icon or button.Fig. 5 illustrates the exemplary graphical user (GUI) 500 as above realized in service point system 400 or remote computer system (such as remote equipment 403).GUI 500 comprises diet module 501, active module 502, diary module 503, physiological data module 504, problem module 505 and prescription data library module 506.Each module can use the application (or " app ") being configured to perform in the operating system of the equipment of carrying GUI 500 or otherwise realize to realize.

As described herein, each module in module 501-module 506 can by such as presenting series of problems to assist to experimenter and collect information by guiding questionnaire (or investigation) from experimenter.Diet module 501 may be used for collecting diet information from experimenter.Diet information can comprise to have consumed or has intended the details of (edible or unedible) material (such as, liquid, solid or semisolid material) that is edible or that drink about experimenter.Active module 502 may be used for collecting the one or more activities about experimenter, the information of such as exercise routine and motion.Diary module 503 except collecting the idea of experimenter and can also being used for collecting the daily routine about experimenter except recalling, in the past movable, the current active of such as experimenter or information movable in the future.Physiological data module 504 may be used for collecting the information relevant with the physiological data (for example, such as temperature, heart rate, oxygen saturation and/or skin electric conductivity) of experimenter.Problem module 505 is asked a question to system or health care worker for enabling experimenter, such as relevant to the health of experimenter problem.Prescription data library module 506 is for such as by carrying out auxiliary experimenter and complete prescription can ordering one or more medicines with the pharmacy of the devices communicating (such as, network service) with module 501-module 506.

Problem module 505 can make user can initiate the dialogue with system, such as to ask a question (such as, relevant to health problem) to system.In this example, in pharmacy or other professional places (such as, the waiting room of doctor, hospital hall) system 400 is provided, and system 400 provides problem and answer whether may need amendment with the pharmaceutical admixtures or treatment of determining user to user, and if like this, then advise that user should Xiang doctor or health care worker's consulting about the further information of the pharmaceutical admixtures of user to this user.

Module 501-module 506 can be implemented on service point equipment, such as service point system 400; Or be implemented on remote computer system, such as remote equipment 403.Each module can be linked to as described herein, have one or more problem and have the questionnaire (or investigation) of one or more reference (or calibration) problem in some cases.

In another embodiment, there is provided herein a kind of computer-readable medium comprising machine executable code, this machine executable code realizes the method for the answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status.The method can be any method described herein.In some embodiments, the interactive display that the method comprises computer system and is operatively coupled to this computer system presents inquiry to user, and the diet consumption of this inquiry and user, exercise, health status and/or mental status are relevant.Next, by the computer system with computer processor (herein also referred to as " processor ") and interactive display, the answer to inquiry from user is received.Computer system, carrys out decipher based on one group of reference information and answers.This group reference information comprises the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status of the deal size of diet consumption, exercise.

Can realize questionnaire in the system with processor and memory location, this memory location has the machine executable code of implementation method.The various aspects of equipment provided herein, system and method can be embodied in programming.The various aspects of described technology can be considered as being generally " product " or " goods " of carrying or the executable code embodied and/or associated data form on the machine readable media of a certain type." storage " type medium can comprise any or all Tangible storage of computing machine, processor etc. or its relating module, such as various semiconductor memory, tape drive, disc driver etc., the non-transitory that these Tangible storage can be provided for software programming at any time stores.All software or its each several part can be communicated by the Internet or other communication networks various frequently.Such communication such as can be supported from a computing machine or processor to another computing machine or processor, such as, loads software from management server or host computer to the computer platform of application server or intensity transformation system.Therefore, the medium that can carry the another type of software element is comprised such as by wired and light land line network and the light wave, electric wave and the electromagnetic wave that are used across the physical interface between local device by various airlink.Carry the physical component of such ripple, such as wired or wireless link, optical link etc., also can be considered as the medium carrying software.As used herein, unless be limited to tangible " storage " medium of non-transitory, otherwise the terms such as such as computing machine or machine " computer-readable recording medium " refer to any medium participating in being provided for the instruction performed to processor.

Therefore, machine readable media, such as computer-executable code etc., can take many forms, includes but not limited to tangible media, carrier media or physical transmission medium.Non-volatile memory medium such as comprises the CD or disk that such as may be used for realizing database shown in accompanying drawing, any memory device such as in any one or more computing machines etc.Volatile storage medium comprises dynamic storage, the primary memory of all computer platforms as such.Tangible transmission media comprises coaxial cable; Copper cash and optical fiber, comprise the wire of the bus formed in computer system.Carrier wave transmission media can take the form of electric signal or electromagnetic signal or sound wave or light wave, the electric signal such as generated during radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IF) data communication or electromagnetic signal or sound wave or light wave.Therefore the common form of computer-readable medium such as comprises: floppy disk, flexible disk, hard disk, tape, any other magnetic medium, CD-ROM, DVD or DVD-ROM, any other light medium, punch card paper tape, any there is hole patterns other physical storage mediums, RAM, ROM, PROM and EPROM, FLASH-EPROM, any other memory chip or box, transmission data or the carrier wave of instruction, the cable transmitting such carrier wave or link, or computing machine therefrom can read any other medium of programming code and/or data.Many computer-readable mediums in the computer-readable medium of these forms can participate in carrying one or more sequences of one or more instruction for execution to processor.

embodiment 1

Fig. 6 is the screenshot capture of graphic user interface (GUI), and this GUI has the investigation of the information for collecting the diet consumption about user.This information can be collected from user.GUI by the system with interactive display, such as can be realized by the system 400 of Fig. 4 A and Fig. 4 B.GUI can allow user to input various breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks project.Such as, user can input breakfast project by pressing "+interpolation breakfast ".GUI illustrates empty " dining diary ", and user can be filled in this " dining diary " by any one pressing in "+interpolation breakfast ", "+interpolation lunch ", "+interpolation dinner " and "+interpolation snacks ".

Such as, user can select "+interpolation lunch " with the details providing the lunch about user that what has been consumed.System can require what (such as, by Text Entry or the drop-down menu with option) lunch that user indicates user has consumed then.System requires that user indicates the quantity of consumption then.

With reference to Fig. 7, in this example, user selects " Sliced ham " for lunch.System is then to " amount " and " unit " of the ham of user's query consumption.User provides respectively " 1 " and " part " as the input for quantity and its unit.System then proposes calibration (or reference) problem to user and what means with interpreting user by single part.With reference to Fig. 8, in new screen, system to user's query " 1 portion of Sliced ham has much? " system is provided for three options (" picture 1 ", " picture 2 " and " picture 3 ") of the different sizes therefrom selected to user.User selects the picture being similar to single portion of Sliced ham best.

System presents each gui menu project to make user can add food, to remove food or editor's answer to user.User can add other food by pressing " adding food to diary " gui menu project to the food diaries of user.User can revise or edit answer to any problem by pressing " retrogressing " gui menu project.

embodiment 2

Fig. 9 is the screenshot capture of graphic user interface (GUI), and this GUI has the investigation of the information for collecting the cycling activity about user.This information can be collected from user.GUI by the system with interactive display, such as can be realized by the system 400 of Fig. 4 A and Fig. 4 B.In the example shown in the series of figures, user selects " cycling " from various movable option, and system requirements user input " duration ", " intensity " and " distance ".The information that GUI provides problem to ask with assisted user input to user, such as " how long activity takes? " user can provide information in the problematic frame of band.

GUI provides various gui menu project to user, such as navigates to last screen (" retrogressing ") and checks the effort scale (" my effort scale ") of user.GUI is also provided for by pressing to user the option that "+add effort scale to " inputs other activities.

In Fig. 10, user selects " intensity " field and selects from the various options of the intensity of the cycling activity for characterizing consumer.User selects " moderate " as intensity and selects " preservation details " to continue next step.

With reference to Figure 11, system proposes to mean what with interpreting user by " moderate " with reference to problem to user.System is provided for three the picture options (" picture 1 ", " picture 2 " and " picture 3 ") therefrom selected to user, at least one picture option wherein can be similar to moderate strength.Such as, " picture 1 " can illustrate user's walking, and " picture 2 " can illustrate that user jogs, and " picture 3 " can illustrate that user hurries up.User selects the picture being similar to the moderate strength of user best.

embodiment 3

Figure 12 is the screenshot capture of graphic user interface (GUI), and this GUI has the investigation of the information for collecting the mental status (such as mood) about user.GUI by the system with interactive display, such as can be realized by the system 400 of Fig. 4 A and Fig. 4 B.In the example shown in the series of figures, system has required that user selects to catch the integer of mood of user from 1 to 10, wherein 1 corresponds to " non-constant " and 10 correspond to " very good ".User selects 6.It is next along investigation continuation that system allows user to pass through to press " next step " then.With reference to Figure 13, system proposes to mean what with interpreting user by the happiness 6 selected in fig. 12 as user with reference to problem to user then.System is provided for three the picture options (" picture 1 ", " picture 2 " and " picture 3 ") therefrom selected to user, at least one picture option wherein can be similar to happiness 6.Such as, " picture 1 " can illustrate the individuality with sad facial expression, and " picture 2 " can illustrate the individuality with neutral facial expression, and " picture 3 " can illustrate the individuality with smile.User selects the picture being similar to happiness numeral 6 best.

In some cases, picture option changes the answer of questionnaire problem and/or calibration problem based on user.Such as, three the picture options presented to user for happiness 1 can be different from three the picture options presented to user for happiness 6.Although be the complete description to the preferred embodiment of the present invention above, likely use various substitute, amendment and equivalent item.Therefore, scope of the present invention should not determined with reference to above description, but the complete scope that should replace with reference to claims and equivalent item thereof is determined.Whether any feature (no matter whether preferred) all with any other feature (no matter preferred) can combine.Claims should not be interpreted as comprising device and add functional specification, unless use phrase " for ... device " given claim in describe such restriction clearly.Should be appreciated that as in description herein and in claims use, the implication of " ", " one " and " being somebody's turn to do " comprises plural, unless the context clearly determines otherwise.In addition, as in description herein and in claims use, " ... in " implication comprise " ... in " and " ... on ", unless the context clearly determines otherwise.In addition, as in description herein and in claims use, term " comprises " and " comprising " is open, and does not get rid of element that is additional, that do not record or method step.Finally, as in description herein and in claims use, " with " and the implication of "or" comprise connectivity and separation property simultaneously, and can use be exchanged, unless the context clearly determines otherwise.Therefore, use term " with " or "or" context in, "and/or" implication is not got rid of to the use of such conjunction, unless the context clearly determines otherwise.

Claims

1., for calibrating a computer implemented method for the answer of user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, comprising:

A () computer system and the interactive display being operatively coupled to described computer system present inquiry to user, the diet consumption of described inquiry and described user, exercise, health status or mental status are relevant;

B () to be unified interactive display by described department of computer science, receive the answer to described inquiry from described user; And

(c) computer processor, come to answer described in decipher based on one group of reference information, wherein said one group of reference information comprises the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of described health status or the current state of described mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise.

2. method according to claim 1, monitors the health of described user after being also included in step (c).

3. method according to claim 1, wherein said reference information obtains by providing at least two selections illustrating element to described user, deal size, described firmly degree, the described current state of described health status or the described current state of described mental status described in wherein said diagram element describing.

4. method according to claim 1, wherein utilizes described reference information to produce calibration matrix, to calibrate the answer of described user to described inquiry.

5. method according to claim 1, wherein said interactive display is capacitive touch display or resistive touch display.

6. method according to claim 1, wherein obtained described reference information before described inquiry.

7. method according to claim 1, wherein obtains described reference information after described inquiry.

8. method according to claim 1, wherein obtains described reference information with described inquiry simultaneously.

9. method according to claim 1, the calibration matrix be wherein set up by the memory bit residing in described computer system to answer described in decipher.

10. method according to claim 1, wherein presents to described user by the graphic user interface (GUI) on described interactive display by described inquiry.

11. methods according to claim 10, wherein said GUI comprises customizable menu screen, and described customizable menu screen comprises the selection of at least one application in following application:

A () diet consumption assembly, comprises the information of the diet about described user, and for the interface of typing food, beverage or other relevant informations;

B () firmly degree assembly, has the information relevant to the activity habit of described user or timetable, and for the interface of typing user specific activities information, exercise or other user's specific activities relevant informations;

C () health status assembly, has the information of the health about described user, and for answering the interface of inquiry or the typing information relevant to the health status of described user;

D () mental status assembly, has the information of the mental status about described user, and for answering the interface of inquiry or the typing information relevant to the mental status of described user; And

(e) calibration questionnaire assembly, at least one wherein presenting the diagram element relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status to described user is selected, and use described user to the selection of diagram element to build calibration matrix, with the perception of user described in decipher to firmly degree, the current state of described health status or the current state of described mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise.

12. 1 kinds, for calibrating the computer implemented method of the answer of user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, comprising:

C () is by described computer system, come to answer described in decipher based on the calibration matrix with one group of reference information, described reference information generates by exert oneself degree, the current state of described health status or the graphically depicting of current state of described mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise.

13. methods according to claim 12, monitor the health of described user after being also included in step (c).

14. methods according to claim 12, wherein said reference information obtains by providing at least two selections illustrating element to described user, deal size, described firmly degree, the described current state of described health status or the described current state of described mental status described in wherein said diagram element describing.

15. methods according to claim 12, wherein said interactive display is capacitive touch display or resistive touch display.

16. methods according to claim 12, wherein obtained described reference information before described inquiry.

17. methods according to claim 12, wherein obtain described reference information after described inquiry.

18. methods according to claim 12, wherein obtain described reference information with described inquiry simultaneously.

19. methods according to claim 12, the memory bit that wherein said calibration matrix resides in described computer system is set up.

20. methods according to claim 12, wherein present to described user by the graphic user interface (GUI) on described interactive display by described inquiry.

21. methods according to claim 20, wherein said GUI comprises customizable menu screen, and described customizable menu screen comprises the selection of at least one application in following application:

22. 1 kinds of computer-readable mediums comprising machine executable code, described machine executable code realizes the method for the answer for calibrating user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, and described method comprises:

C () is by described computer system, come to answer described in decipher based on one group of reference information, wherein said one group of reference information comprises the graphically depicting of firmly degree, the current state of described health status or the current state of described mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise.

23. computer-readable mediums according to claim 22, wherein said method monitors the health of described user after being also included in the step (c) of described method.

24. computer-readable mediums according to claim 22, wherein said reference information obtains by providing at least two selections illustrating element to described user, deal size, described firmly degree, the described current state of described health status or the described current state of described mental status described in wherein said diagram element describing.

25. computer-readable mediums according to claim 22, wherein utilize described reference information to produce calibration matrix, to calibrate the answer of described user to described inquiry.

26. computer-readable mediums according to claim 22, wherein said interactive display is capacitive touch display or resistive touch display.

27. computer-readable mediums according to claim 22, wherein obtained described reference information before described inquiry.

28. computer-readable mediums according to claim 22, wherein obtain described reference information after described inquiry.

29. computer-readable mediums according to claim 22, wherein obtain described reference information with described inquiry simultaneously.

30. computer-readable mediums according to claim 22, the calibration matrix be wherein set up by the memory bit residing in described computer system to answer described in decipher.

31. computer-readable mediums according to claim 22, wherein present to described user by the graphic user interface (GUI) on described interactive display by described inquiry.

32. computer-readable mediums according to claim 31, wherein said GUI comprises customizable menu screen, and described customizable menu screen comprises the selection of at least one application in following application:

33. 1 kinds, for calibrating the system of the answer of user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, comprising:

Interactive display, it is arranged to the graphics item presenting machine generation to user; And

Operatively be coupled to the computer system of described interactive display, described computer system has the memory location comprising machine executable code, and described machine executable code carrys out implementation method by the processor of described computer system, and described method comprises:

A () presents inquiry by described department of computer science interactive display of unifying to user, the diet consumption of described inquiry and described user, exercise, health status or mental status are relevant;

34. systems according to claim 33, monitor the health of described user after being also included in the step (c) of described method.

35. systems according to claim 33, wherein utilize described reference information to produce calibration matrix, to calibrate the answer of described user to described inquiry.

36. systems according to claim 33, wherein said interactive display is capacitive touch display or resistive touch display.

37. systems according to claim 33, wherein obtained described reference information before described inquiry.

38. systems according to claim 33, wherein obtain described reference information after described inquiry.

39. systems according to claim 33, wherein obtain described reference information with described inquiry simultaneously.

40. systems according to claim 33, the calibration matrix be wherein set up by the memory bit residing in described computer system to answer described in decipher.

41. systems according to claim 33, wherein said memory location comprises the machine executable code for realizing graphic user interface (GUI) on described interactive display.

42. systems according to claim 41, wherein said GUI comprises customizable menu screen, and described customizable menu screen comprises the selection of at least one application in following application:

43. systems according to claim 42, wherein use the internal calibration matrix of described user to the perception of firmly degree, the current state of health status or the current state of mental status of the deal size of described diet consumption, described exercise to carry out decipher one or more answers at least one application described in following application.

44. systems according to claim 43, the memory bit that wherein said internal calibration matrix is stored in described computer system is set up.

45. systems according to claim 42, wherein said customizable menu screen comprises the selection of at least two methods in described application.

46. systems according to claim 45, wherein said customizable menu screen comprises the selection of at least three application in described application.

47. systems according to claim 46, wherein said customizable menu screen comprises the selection of at least four application in described application.

48. systems according to claim 33, wherein said system is service point system, and it is arranged to and performs one or more mensuration to sample.

49. systems according to claim 48, wherein said service point system is arranged to and performs two or more mensuration to sample.

50. systems according to claim 49, wherein said service point system is arranged to and performs three kinds or more kind mensuration to sample.

51. 1 kinds, for calibrating the computer implemented method of the answer of user's pair problem relevant to diet consumption, exercise, health status or mental status, comprising:

A () computer system and the interactive display being operatively coupled to described computer system present inquiry to user, the diet consumption of described inquiry and described user, exercise, health status and/or mental status are relevant;

(c) computer processor, come to answer described in decipher based on one group of reference information, wherein said one group of reference information comprises graphically depicting of showing to described user, describedly graphically depict the deal size that described diet consumption is shown, the firmly degree of described exercise, the current state of health status and/or the current state of mental status, that wherein passes through that i) described user selects to mate best with its qualitative description graphically depicts and ii) map quantitative information that graphically depicting of selecting with described user be associated to quantize user's qualitative description, generate described one group of reference information.