JP2024054556A - Advice presentation device, advice presentation method, and advice presentation program - Google Patents

Abstract

An advice presentation device, a presentation method, and a program for preventing a decrease in a user's motivation to change behavior in order to recover physical or mental function are provided.
[Solution] In a measurement system 10 including an upper body measuring device (body composition measuring device) 12, a lower body measuring device (body weight measuring device, body composition measuring device) 14, an activity measuring device 16, a mobile terminal device 18, and a server 19, the mobile terminal device, which is an advice presenting device that presents advice to a user based on the judgment results for each of a plurality of measurement items for determining the user's frailty, acquires input contents for each of the plurality of measurement items, and presents advice to the user according to the priority of the measurement items determined based on the judgment results of the measurement items, via a touch panel display 50, which is a presentation means. If the highest priority measurement item determined each time the input contents are acquired is the same consecutively, the touch panel display does not continue to present the same advice.
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Description

The present invention relates to an advice presentation device, an advice presentation method, and an advice presentation program.

In applications and devices related to promoting the user's health, various advice is displayed to the user, for example, from the perspective of preventing and improving lifestyle-related diseases. By receiving accurate advice, the user can review their own lifestyle habits and adopt new lifestyle habits, thereby improving their health condition.

For example, an application or the like can provide advice to a user in a frail state, encouraging the user to take actions to alleviate the frail state without forcing the user. Appropriate advice can increase the user's motivation, leading to continued behavioral changes. As a result, the user can return from a frail state to a robust state.

As an example of a method for generating advice, Patent Document 1 describes a device that determines the priority of lifestyle habits that a user should prioritize in improving based on answers to multiple questions about the user's lifestyle habits.

Patent No. 5297672

In Patent Document 1, a user answers a number of questions, and priorities are determined according to the degree of improvement and appropriateness, and advice is displayed. However, if a user answers questions on a daily basis, the priorities do not change and the same advice may always be displayed. As a result, the user may lose motivation to improve their lifestyle habits and may not make the behavioral changes suggested by the advice.

The present invention aims to provide an advice presentation device, an advice presentation method, and an advice presentation program that suppress a decrease in a user's motivation to change their behavior to recover physical or mental functions.

The first aspect of the present invention is an advice presentation device that presents advice to a user based on the judgment results for each of a plurality of items for judging the state of the user's physical or mental functions, and includes an acquisition means for acquiring input contents for each of the plurality of items, and a presentation means for presenting the advice corresponding to a predetermined item to the user each time the input contents are acquired, and the presentation means does not continue to present the same advice when the predetermined item for which the advice is to be presented is the same consecutively.

According to this configuration, advice corresponding to a specific item is presented to the user based on the judgment results for each of the multiple items. The specific item for which advice is presented may be the same consecutively. If the specific item for which advice is presented is the same consecutively and the same advice is presented consecutively, the user may become bored and lose motivation to change their behavior. Therefore, this configuration does not continue to present the same advice if the specific item for which advice is presented is the same consecutively. Therefore, this configuration can suppress a decrease in the user's motivation to change their behavior to recover physical or mental function.

The second aspect of the advice presentation device is the advice presentation device of the first aspect, in which a plurality of pieces of advice are set for each of the items, and the presentation means may present the advice selected randomly or in a predetermined order as the advice corresponding to the predetermined item. With this configuration, even if the highest priority item determined each time input contents are acquired is the same consecutively, the same advice is not presented continuously.

The advice presentation device of the third aspect is the advice presentation device of the first or second aspect, in which, each time the input content is acquired, the priority of the items is determined based on the judgment results of the multiple items, and the predetermined items for which the advice is to be presented are determined based on the priority. With this configuration, more appropriate advice can be presented to the user.

The fourth aspect of the advice presentation device is the advice presentation device of the third aspect, in which a plurality of pieces of advice are set for each of the items, the predetermined item is the top-priority item in the priority order, and the presentation means may present, when the previous top-priority item and the current top-priority item are the same, an advice different from the previous advice among the plurality of pieces of advice set for the top-priority item as the current advice. With this configuration, even if the top-priority item determined each time input content is acquired is the same consecutively, the same advice is not continuously presented.

The fifth aspect of the advice presentation device is the third aspect of the advice presentation device, and the presentation means may present the advice for the item with the second or lower priority as the current advice when the previous top priority item is the same as the current top priority item. With this configuration, even if the top priority item determined each time input content is acquired is the same consecutively, the same advice will not be presented repeatedly.

The sixth aspect of the advice presentation device is the third aspect of the advice presentation device in which a plurality of pieces of advice are set for each of the items, the predetermined items are the items with the second or lower priority, and when the items with the second or lower priority are the same consecutively, the presentation means does not continue to present the same advice as the advice corresponding to the second or lower item. With this configuration, even if the items with the second or lower priority are the same consecutively, the same advice will not be presented continuously.

In the seventh aspect of the advice presentation device, in any one of the third to sixth aspects, the presentation means may alternately present the advice for the item with a high priority and the advice for the item with a low priority. According to this configuration, if the highest priority item determined each time input contents are acquired is the same consecutively, the same advice is not continuously presented. In addition, by having the user execute advice for an item with a low priority, deterioration of the user's functionality can be suppressed.

The advice presentation device of the eighth aspect may be an advice presentation device of any one of the third to seventh aspects, in which the priority of the item for which the current judgment result has become worse than the previous judgment result may be set to a higher priority. With this configuration, advice corresponding to the item for which the judgment result has become worse is more likely to be presented.

The ninth aspect of the advice presentation device is the advice presentation device of any one of the third to eighth aspects, in which the presentation means may present only one piece of advice. With this configuration, it is possible to encourage the user to take action without leaving it up to the user's own choice.

The advice presentation device of the tenth aspect is the advice presentation device of any one of the third to ninth aspects, in which a plurality of pieces of advice are set for each judgment result of the item, and the presentation means may present the advice selected according to the judgment result of the item according to the priority order. With this configuration, it is possible to present to the user appropriate advice according to the judgment result of the item.

The advice presentation device of the eleventh aspect is the advice presentation device of any one of the first to tenth aspects, in which the plurality of items may be items for determining the frailty of the user.

The advice presentation device of the 12th aspect is the advice presentation device of any one of the first to 11th aspects, in which the acquisition means may acquire as the item a measurement result from at least one of a body weight measurement device, a body composition measurement device, a muscle strength measurement device, and an activity measurement device.

The advice presentation method of the thirteenth aspect is a method for presenting advice to a user based on the judgment results for each of a plurality of items for judging the state of the user's physical or mental functions, and includes a first step of acquiring input contents for each of the plurality of items by an acquisition means, and a second step of presenting the advice corresponding to a predetermined item to the user by a presentation means each time the input contents are acquired, and the second step does not continue to present the same advice if the predetermined item for which the advice is to be presented is the same consecutively.

The advice presentation program of the 14th aspect causes a computer that causes a presentation means to present advice to a user based on the judgment results for each of a plurality of items for judging the state of the user's physical or mental function to execute a first step of acquiring input contents for each of the plurality of items by an acquisition means, and a second step of presenting the advice corresponding to a predetermined item to the user by the presentation means each time the input contents are acquired, and if the predetermined item for which the advice is to be presented is the same consecutively, the same advice is not continuously presented by the presentation means.

The present invention suppresses a decline in the user's motivation to change their behavior in order to recover physical or mental functions.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a measurement system according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the mobile terminal device of the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the relationship between the weight determination level and advice in the first embodiment. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the priority order determination process according to the first embodiment. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing how the first embodiment determines the priority order of a plurality of measurement items having the same evaluation level, where (A) shows the current and previous evaluation results, and (B) shows the priority order of the current measurement item. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of the advice presentation process according to the first embodiment. Figure 7 is a schematic diagram regarding the combination of judgment levels and advice numbers in the first embodiment, where (A) shows the advice number selected for each measurement item, (B) shows the state in which the measurement items have been rearranged in order of priority based on the judgment level, and (C) shows the combination of advice numbers and priorities. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the flow of advice presentation processing according to the second embodiment. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the flow of advice presentation processing according to the fourth embodiment. Figure 10 is a schematic diagram showing combinations of measurement items and advice in the fourth embodiment, where (A) shows the combination of the previous advice number and priority, (B) shows the combination of the current advice number and priority, and (C) shows the combination of the current advice number and priority presented to the user.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that the embodiment described below is an example of how the present invention can be implemented, and the present invention is not limited to the specific configuration described below. When implementing the present invention, a specific configuration according to the embodiment may be appropriately adopted.

First Embodiment
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a measurement system 10 according to the present embodiment.

The measurement system 10 of this embodiment includes an upper body measurement device 12, a lower body measurement device 14, an activity measurement device 16, a mobile terminal device 18, and a server 19.

The upper body measuring device 12 functions as a body composition measuring device and a muscle strength measuring device, and is a device that measures bioimpedance (hereinafter referred to as "upper body impedance") from the user's upper body, particularly the arms. For this reason, the upper body measuring device 12 is equipped with a right hand grip 20R and a left hand grip 20L. The right hand grip 20R and the left hand grip 20L are each provided with a current electrode for passing a current and a voltage electrode for measuring a voltage.

The user grasps the right hand grip 20R with his right hand and the left hand grip 20L with his left hand. The upper body measurement device 12 then passes a current through the current electrodes and measures the voltage (potential difference) with the voltage electrodes to obtain the upper body impedance of the user.

Measuring upper body impedance from the upper body means measuring impedance by contacting electrodes to any part of the upper body. For this reason, as an example, the upper body measurement device 12 of this embodiment measures upper body impedance by having the user grasp the right hand grip 20R and the left hand grip 20L, but is not limited to this. For example, electrodes may be provided on a bandage or the like, and the upper body impedance may be measured by contacting any part of the user.

The upper body measurement device 12 also includes a grip strength meter 22 that measures the grip strength of the user. The grip strength meter 22 functions as a muscle strength measurement device for the user.

The grip dynamometer 22 has a pair of grips 24, 24 at opposing positions. The user grasps the grips 24, 24 of the grip dynamometer 22 with one hand and squeezes them with force. The grip dynamometer 22 outputs an electrical signal according to the distance the grips 24, 24 have moved, and this allows the upper body measuring device 12 to measure the grip strength of the user.

In addition, the upper body measurement device 12 of this embodiment is started and controlled via the mobile terminal device 18, and transmits the measurement results to the mobile terminal device 18.

The lower body measuring device 14 functions as a body weight measuring device and a body composition measuring device, and is a device that measures bioimpedance (hereinafter referred to as "lower body impedance") and body weight from the user's lower body. The lower body measuring device 14 is equipped with a right foot electrode unit 32R and a left foot electrode unit 32L on the platform 30. The right foot electrode unit 32R and the left foot electrode unit 32L are each provided with a current electrode for passing a current and a voltage electrode for measuring a voltage.

The user stands on the platform 30 so that the sole of the right foot is in contact with the right foot electrode unit 32R and the sole of the left foot is in contact with the left foot electrode unit 32L. The lower body measurement device 14 obtains the lower body impedance of the user by passing a current through the current electrodes and measuring the voltage (potential difference) with the voltage electrodes.

The lower body measuring device 14 is equipped with a load cell for measuring body weight. When the user stands on the platform 30, the lower body measuring device 14 measures the user's body weight based on the displacement state of the load cell in response to the load (body weight).

The lower body measuring device 14 also includes a display unit 34 and an operation unit 36. The display unit 34 displays the measurement results such as weight. The operation unit 36 accepts power operations and input operations for the lower body measuring device 14.

The activity measuring device 16 has, as an example, a pedometer function, and a monitor 42 and an operation button 44 are provided on the main body 40.

The monitor 42 displays the number of steps taken by the user. The monitor 42 may also display a target value, such as the user's target number of steps per day. The operation button 44 is used to turn the activity measuring device 16 on or off and to input various settings.

In addition, the lower body measuring device 14 and the activity amount measuring device 16 in this embodiment transmit the measurement results to the mobile terminal device 18 in the same manner as the upper body measuring device 12.

The mobile terminal device 18 is an information processing device, and includes a touch panel display 50 that receives measurement results and the like by wirelessly communicating with the upper body measuring device 12, the lower body measuring device 14, and the activity measuring device 16, and displays the measurement results and the like. The mobile terminal device 18 is, for example, a portable information processing device such as a smartphone, a tablet terminal, or a smartwatch.

The mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment has a function as an advice presentation device that judges the state of the user's physical or mental functions (hereinafter referred to as "frailty") and presents advice to the user. For this reason, application software for frailty assessment (hereinafter referred to as "frailty assessment app") is installed in the mobile terminal device 18. The frailty assessment app presents advice to the user based on the user's frailty assessment.

The mobile terminal device 18 acquires multiple measurement items for determining the user's frailty. Examples of the measurement items include the measurement results from the upper body measurement device 12, the lower body measurement device 14, and the activity measurement device 16, and responses to questions input by the user.

The server 19 transmits and receives data to and from the mobile terminal device 18, and stores data received from the mobile terminal device 18. Specifically, the server 19 receives measurement results from the upper body measuring device 12, the lower body measuring device 14, and the activity measuring device 16, as well as frailty assessment results, from the mobile terminal device 18, and stores them in chronological order for each user.

In this manner, the measurement system 10 of this embodiment is configured to include an upper body measuring device 12, a lower body measuring device 14, an activity amount measuring device 16, and a mobile terminal device 18. Each device has a wireless communication function, and is configured in a star shape with the mobile terminal device 18 at the center, which also functions as a display means. The upper body measuring device 12, lower body measuring device 14, and activity amount measuring device 16 operate independently as single devices, and transmit measurement results to the mobile terminal device 18 for aggregation.

In particular, since the upper body measurement device 12 and the lower body measurement device 14 are each independent devices, the user can measure the upper body or lower body at any location, measurement timing, and measurement posture. Therefore, the measurement system 10 of this embodiment allows the user to use it in a highly convenient manner.

As described above, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment is an advice presentation device that presents advice to a user based on the judgment results for each of a plurality of measurement items for determining frailty. For this reason, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment acquires input contents for a plurality of measurement items and presents advice corresponding to a specified measurement item. As an example, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment determines the priority of the measurement items based on the judgment results of the measurement items each time the input contents are acquired. Then, the specified measurement items for which advice is to be presented are determined based on the priority.

The advice presented to the user encourages the user to change their behavior, and by the user acting in accordance with the advice, the user's physical condition improves from a frail state to a robust state. In addition, the presentation of advice in this embodiment is, as an example, a display of the advice on the touch panel display 50 provided in the mobile terminal device 18, but is not limited to this. The advice may also be presented by other presentation means, such as audio output or printing on paper media, etc.

Measurement items include, for example, the user's weight, muscle strength, muscle function, activity level, and sense of fatigue. Weight is obtained from the results of weight measurement by the lower body measuring device 14. Muscle strength is obtained from the results of grip strength measurement by the upper body measuring device 12. Muscle function is obtained from the results of measurements such as bioimpedance (e.g. muscle mass) by the upper body measuring device 12 and the lower body measuring device 14. Activity level is obtained from the results of measuring the number of steps by the activity level measuring device 16. The sense of fatigue is obtained from answers to questions posed to the user.

The above measurement items for determining frailty are examples, and not all measurement items necessarily need to be included, and other measurement items may be added. Also, the equipment for obtaining the above measurement items is an example, and other equipment may be used.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3 described later, multiple pieces of advice are set for each judgment result of a measurement item. The touch panel display 50 then presents the advice selected according to the judgment result of the measurement item in order of priority. This allows the mobile terminal device 18 to present the user with appropriate advice according to the judgment result of the measurement item.

As described above, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment determines the priority of the measurement items each time input contents of multiple measurement items are acquired, and presents advice to the user based on the priority. The highest priority measurement item determined each time input contents are acquired may be the same for consecutive times. If the highest priority measurement item is the same for consecutive times and the same advice is presented consecutively, the user may become bored and lose motivation to change their behavior.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the mobile terminal device 18 does not continue to present the same advice if the specified measurement item for which advice is to be presented is the same consecutively. The specified measurement item in this embodiment is determined based on the priority order, and as an example, is the measurement item with the highest priority among the priorities.

In other words, the touch panel display 50 of the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment does not continue to present the same advice if the highest priority measurement item determined each time the input content is acquired remains the same. Therefore, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment presents different advice to the user each time a frailty assessment is performed on the user, thereby preventing a decrease in the user's motivation to make behavioral changes to recover from a frail state.

Note that "not continuing to present the same advice" means that it is acceptable for the same advice to be presented two or three times in a row, for example. In other words, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment does not necessarily have to present advice that is different from the previous time even if the measurement item that should cause behavioral change is the same consecutively, and presents different advice as appropriate to prevent the user from becoming bored.

If the purpose of presenting advice is for the user to recover from an illness, the advice must be presented continuously, even if it is the same advice. Generally, in order to recover from an illness, for example, it is necessary to take the same medicine regularly, or to repeat the same actions for rehabilitation. In other words, if different advice is presented because the user gets bored, it may delay the user's recovery.

On the other hand, a frail state is a decline in physical or mental function, mainly due to aging or disease. In other words, recovery from a frail state is not achieved by repeatedly performing the same actions, unlike recovery from disease. In particular, if the cause is the user's frail state or aging, the actions required to recover from the frail state are something the user will perform for the rest of their life.

In other words, in order to recover from a frail state, it is not important that the user repeatedly performs the same action, but rather that the user continues to perform actions that contribute to recovery. Furthermore, there may not be just one type of action that contributes to recovery from a frail state, but rather multiple types. For this reason, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment performs processing that does not continue to present the same advice if the highest priority measurement item determined each time input content is acquired is the same continuously.

Figure 2 is a functional block diagram of the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment. The mobile terminal device 18 includes an operation input reception unit 60, a body composition value calculation unit 62, a monitor control unit 64, a memory unit 66, a short-range communication unit 68, and a wide-area communication unit 70. Each function executed by the body composition value calculation unit 62, the operation input reception unit 60, and the monitor control unit 64 is executed by a computing device included in the mobile terminal device 18 by starting a program, for example.

The operation input reception unit 60 receives touch operations performed by the user on the touch panel display 50 and on/off operations of switches as operation inputs to the mobile terminal device 18. The mobile terminal device 18 executes various controls based on this operation input.

The body composition value calculation unit 62 calculates the user's body composition value based on the user information, the lower body impedance transmitted from the lower body measurement device 14, and the upper body impedance and body weight transmitted from the upper body measurement device 12, etc.

The body composition values calculated by the body composition value calculation unit 62 include, for example, fat percentage, fat mass, fat-free mass, muscle mass, visceral fat mass, visceral fat level, visceral fat area, subcutaneous fat mass, basal metabolic rate, bone mass, total body water percentage, BMI, intracellular fluid volume, extracellular fluid volume, etc. User information such as the user's gender, height, and age required to calculate the body composition value is stored in the storage unit 66 or the server 19.

The monitor control unit 64 controls the touch panel display 50 to display various images. For example, the monitor control unit 64 causes the touch panel display 50 to display the user's body composition value calculated by the body composition value calculation unit 62, the results of the frailty assessment, advice, etc.

The storage unit 66 is, for example, a non-volatile memory, and stores various data, setting values, and application programs such as a frailty assessment app. The data stored in the storage unit 66 includes, for example, user information, measurement results sent from the upper body measuring device 12, the lower body measuring device 14, and the activity measuring device 16, body composition values calculated by the body composition value calculation unit 62, and frailty assessment results.

The short-distance communication unit 68 communicates with the upper body measuring device 12, the lower body measuring device 14, and the activity measuring device 16 using a wireless communication standard with a narrow communication range. As an example, the short-distance communication unit 68 in this embodiment communicates with the upper body measuring device 12, the lower body measuring device 14, and the activity measuring device 16 using BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), but is not limited to this and may perform wireless communication using other standards.

The wide-area communication unit 70 communicates with other information processing devices such as the server 19 using a wireless communication standard that has a wider communication range than the short-range communication unit 68. As an example, the wide-area communication unit 70 in this embodiment communicates with the server 19 using Wi-Fi (registered trademark), but is not limited to this and may perform wireless communication using other standards.

The mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment also includes an input content acquisition unit 72, a frailty assessment unit 74, a priority order determination unit 76, and an advice selection unit 78. Each function executed by these units also functions as a frailty assessment app.

The input content acquisition unit 72 acquires input content for multiple measurement items. In this embodiment, the input content is the user's weight, muscle strength, muscle function, activity level, and fatigue level. These input contents are acquired as the measurement results of the upper body measurement device 12, the lower body measurement device 14, and the activity level measurement device 16, and the user's answers to questions.

The frailty assessment unit 74 assesses the user's frailty state for each measurement item based on the input contents of multiple measurement items. Frailty assessment may be, for example, a assessment based on the amount of change between past input contents and current input contents, a assessment based on the difference between the average values according to age, sex, weight, height, etc. and the user's input contents, a assessment based on answers to questions, etc.

Specifically, frailty assessment of body weight is performed based on the body weight measurement results obtained from the lower body measuring device 14. Frailty assessment of muscle strength is performed based on the grip strength measurement results obtained from the upper body measuring device 12. Frailty assessment of muscle function is performed based on the bioimpedance measurement results (e.g. muscle mass) obtained from the upper body measuring device 12 and the lower body measuring device 14. Frailty assessment of activity amount is performed based on the step count measurement results obtained from the activity amount measuring device 16.

The frailty assessment of fatigue is performed based on the answers to questions posed to the user input via the frailty assessment app. Note that, for example, a frailty assessment based on questions may be performed based on the answer selected by the user, with multiple answers to each question being provided in advance. Also, frailty assessment based on questions may be performed based on the numerical values input by the user in response to the questions.

The user's physical condition may be determined based on the change over time in the grip strength value measured by the grip strength meter 22 (the user's fatigue is calculated from past values and changes over time) and the measurement results of various sensors or cameras mounted on the mobile terminal device 18, and a frailty assessment may be performed based on this. The frailty assessment app may also obtain input information such as the user's activity level and muscle function from information such as the accelerometer, gyroscope, and light meter mounted on the mobile terminal device 18, the camera, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and the frequency of use of the mobile terminal device 18, and perform a frailty assessment.

However, frailty assessment for each measurement item can be performed using known methods such as those used in frailty assessment criteria such as J-CHS.

In this embodiment, the frailty assessment unit 74, as an example, assesses the user's condition on a five-level scale, such as "needs assistance/care", "frail", "pre-frail", "healthy", and "very healthy", and derives the assessment result for each measurement item as an assessment level. "Needs assistance/care" is assessment level "1", "frail" is assessment level "2", "pre-frail" is assessment level "3", "healthy" is assessment level "4", and "very healthy" is assessment level "5". In other words, the lower the assessment level value, the worse the user's condition is.

The frailty assessment unit 74 of this embodiment acquires input contents in response to the user's operation of the frailty assessment app, and derives the assessment level of the measurement item when the user issues an instruction to perform a frailty assessment.

The priority determination unit 76 determines the priority of the measurement items based on the judgment level of the measurement items each time the input content is acquired. Note that the more the user feels the need to improve a measurement item, the higher the priority. In other words, the lower the judgment level of a measurement item, the higher the priority.

Without being limited to this, the priority order may be determined based on conditions arbitrarily set by the user. For example, the user may determine the lifestyle habits or physical condition that they wish to improve, and the priority order may be determined based on this. In this way, the user is presented with advice that matches their preferences, and can therefore maintain high motivation for improving their lifestyle habits, etc.

The advice selection unit 78 selects advice to present to the user. In this embodiment, the advice selection unit 78 selects one piece of advice for each judgment level of a measurement item, and determines the order of advice to present according to the priority of the measurement item.

Here, FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the relationship between the weight judgment level and advice. As shown in FIG. 3, in this embodiment, multiple different pieces of advice (W1 to W3) are set for each judgment level. In other words, multiple pieces of advice W1 to W3 are classified according to the judgment level of each measurement item.

Figure 3 shows, as an example, advice W1 to W3 for each judgment level corresponding to body weight, but three types of advice are set for each judgment level for the other measurement items muscle strength, muscle function, activity level, and fatigue. The number of pieces of advice may be multiple for each judgment level, with a minimum of two types and four or more types being set. Note that the judgment comments in Figure 3 are presented to the user according to the judgment level, and one type is set for each judgment level.

The multiple pieces of advice set for each judgment level of the measurement item may be stored in the memory unit 66 of the mobile terminal device 18, or may be stored in the server 19 and read out from the server 19 as appropriate and transmitted to the mobile terminal device 18.

Figure 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the priority determination process in this embodiment.

First, in step 100, the frailty assessment unit 74 assesses the level for each measurement item based on the input.

In the next step 102, the priority determination unit 76 rearranges the order of the measurement items in ascending order of assessment level, i.e., in descending order of priority.

In the next step 104, the priority determination unit 76 determines whether there are any measurement items with the same evaluation level, and if the evaluation is positive, the process proceeds to step 106, and if the evaluation is negative, the process proceeds to step 112.

In step 106, the priority determination unit 76 determines whether or not there is any measurement item with the same judgment level whose current judgment level is lower than the previous judgment level, and if the judgment is positive, the process proceeds to step 108, and if the judgment is negative, the process proceeds to step 110.

In step 108, the measurement item whose evaluation level has been lowered is given higher priority, and the process proceeds to step 112.

In step 110, the priority of measurement items with the same evaluation level is randomly determined, and the process proceeds to step 112.

Here, Figure 5 is a schematic diagram regarding the determination of the priority order of measurement items with the same judgment level. Figure 5 (A) shows the current and previous judgment results. That is, the judgment level for each measurement item whose measurement date is 2022/2/15 is the current judgment result, and the judgment level for each measurement item whose measurement date is 2022/2/7 is the previous judgment result. Figure 5 (B) shows the priority order of measurement items based on the current judgment result.

In the example of Figure 5 (A), the current assessment results for body weight and muscle function are both at the assessment level of "3." And because the previous assessment level for muscle function was "4," the assessment level for muscle function is lower than the previous assessment level. On the other hand, the current assessment level for body weight is the same as the previous assessment level. For this reason, as shown in Figure 5 (B), the priority of the current measurement item is higher for muscle function than for body weight.

In this way, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment gives higher priority to the measurement item for which the current judgment result is worse than the previous one. This makes it easier to present advice corresponding to the measurement item for which the judgment result is worse.

As described above, among measurement items with the same judgment level, in addition to giving higher priority to measurement items whose current judgment level is lower than the previous judgment level, other conditions may also be used to give higher priority. For example, a measurement item whose current judgment level has dropped significantly compared to its previous judgment level may be given higher priority. For example, a measurement item whose judgment level has dropped by three or more levels, such as a measurement item whose previous judgment level was "5" and whose current judgment level is "2," is given top priority regardless of the priority of other measurement items.

In step 112, the priority determination unit 76 determines the priority of the measurement items. That is, when moving from step 104 to step 112, the priority is determined in the order in which the measurement items were rearranged in step 104. On the other hand, when moving from step 108 or step 110 to step 112, the priority is determined in an order that takes into account the priority determined in step 108 or step 110.

The measurement items for which advice is to be provided are determined based on the priority determined in step 112.

Figure 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of the advice presentation process in this embodiment. The advice presentation process is executed by the frailty assessment app based on the user's instructions each time the input contents of a measurement item are acquired.

First, in step 200, the advice selection unit 78 selects an advice number for each measurement item. Specifically, the advice selection unit 78 randomly selects one type of advice from among three types of advice for each measurement item.

In the next step 202, the priority determination unit 76 performs a priority determination process for the measurement items. The priority determination process is the process described with reference to FIG. 4.

In the next step 204, the advice selection unit 78 combines the advice number selected in step 200 with the priority determined in step 202.

This combination will be explained with reference to Figure 7. Figure 7(A) shows the advice numbers selected for each measurement item. Figure 7(B) shows the state in which the measurement items have been rearranged in order of priority based on the assessment level. Figure 7(C) shows the state in which the advice numbers for each measurement item shown in Figure 7(A) and the measurement item priorities have been combined.

That is, in the example of FIG. 7(C), advice number g2 at judgment level 1 is selected as advice on muscle strength. Advice number ex3 at judgment level 2 is selected as advice on fatigue. Advice number w1 at judgment level 3 is selected as advice on weight. Advice number s1 at judgment level 4 is selected as advice on muscle function. Advice number a2 at judgment level 5 is selected as advice on activity level.

By processing step 204 in this manner, in this embodiment, the measurement items for which advice is to be presented are determined as the measurement items that will actually be presented on the touch panel display 50.

In the next step 206, the touch panel display 50 presents the advice with the advice number determined in step 204 according to the priority of the measurement sideways glance. Note that when presenting the advice, the frailty assessment app may not only present the advice according to the priority, but may also highlight the advice in order of highest priority. In this way, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment can encourage the user to carry out the action indicated by the advice with the highest priority.

The touch panel display 50 may also present only one piece of advice. In other words, the touch panel display 50 may present only one piece of advice with the highest priority, rather than presenting advice for all measurement items from highest to lowest priority. This allows the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment to encourage the user to take action, without leaving it up to the user's own choice.

As described above in step 200, the touch panel display 50 of this embodiment presents advice selected at random as advice corresponding to the highest priority measurement item. Therefore, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment does not continue to present the same advice if the highest priority measurement item determined each time the input content is acquired remains the same continuously. However, this is not limited to this, and in step 200, the advice selection unit 78 may select advice for each measurement item in a predetermined order, and the advice selected in the predetermined order may be presented on the touch panel display 50.

As described above, the mobile terminal device 18, which is the advice presentation device of this embodiment, is a device that presents advice on a specific item based on measurement results obtained from multiple measurement devices (upper body measurement device 12, lower body measurement device 14, activity measurement device 16, etc.). In addition, the mobile terminal device 18 determines the priority of measurement items from the measurement results obtained from the multiple measurement devices and determines advice according to the priority, but prepares multiple pieces of advice so that the same advice is not continuously presented when the specific item corresponding to the advice determined by a new measurement is the same as that of the previous measurement. In this way, when the priority of the specific item corresponding to the advice determined from the measurement results is the same continuously, the advice is presented, for example, in a specific order (or randomly) so that the same advice is not continuously displayed.

The specified item is a measurement item among multiple measurement items for assessing a user's frailty that should lead to behavioral change. The specified item is determined based on a priority order according to the assessment level of the multiple measurement items in the frailty assessment. The more the user feels the need to improve the measurement item, the higher the priority order. In other words, the lower the assessment level of the measurement item, the higher the priority order.

In this way, if the specific item for which advice is presented is the same consecutively, the same advice is not continually presented, thereby preventing a decrease in the user's motivation to make behavioral changes to restore physical or mental function.

Second Embodiment
In the first embodiment, the advice for the highest priority measurement item is selected randomly, so the possibility of the same advice being presented consecutively is allowed. On the other hand, in the present embodiment, the advice presented this time is different from the advice presented previously.

Figure 7 is a flowchart showing the flow of the advice presentation process in this embodiment. The advice presentation process is executed by the frailty assessment app based on the user's instructions each time the input contents of a measurement item are acquired.

First, in step 300, the advice selection unit 78 selects an advice number for each measurement item. Note that in step 300, as an example, an advice number is selected randomly from among multiple pieces of advice, but this is not limited thereto, and the advice number may be selected by other methods.

In the next step 302, the priority determination unit 76 performs priority determination processing.

In the next step 304, the advice selection unit 78 combines the advice number selected in step 300 with the priority determined in step 302.

In the next step 306, the advice selection unit 78 determines whether the highest priority measurement item is the same between the current and previous times, and if the determination is positive, the process proceeds to step 308, and if the determination is negative, the process proceeds to step 312.

In step 308, the advice selection unit 78 determines whether the advice number for the highest priority measurement item is the same between the current and previous times, and if the determination is positive, the process proceeds to step 310, and if the determination is negative, the process proceeds to step 312.

In step 310, the advice selection unit 78 selects an advice number that is different from the previous advice number among the advice numbers corresponding to the highest priority measurement item, and determines the selected advice number as the advice number for the highest priority measurement item. The selection of advice in step 310 may be, for example, randomly selected from advice numbers excluding the advice number presented last time, or advice with a number shifted by one from the advice number presented last time may be selected.

In step 312, the monitor control unit 64 causes the touch panel display 50 to present advice in the priority order of the advice number determined in step 304 or step 310.

In this way, when the previous highest priority measurement item and the current highest priority measurement item are the same, the touch panel display 50 of this embodiment presents advice different from the previous advice among the multiple pieces of advice set for the highest priority measurement item as the current advice. Therefore, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment does not continue to present the same advice even if the highest priority measurement item determined each time input content is acquired is the same consecutively.

In addition, in the present embodiment, when the previous highest priority measurement item and the current highest priority measurement item are the same, the touch panel display 50 may present advice for a measurement item with a second or lower priority as the current advice. In this form, the advice selection unit 78, for example, randomly selects a measurement item with a second or lower priority. Then, the touch panel display 50 presents advice for the randomly selected measurement item as the current highest priority advice. The selection of the second or lower measurement item that corresponds to the current advice may be performed in a predetermined order rather than randomly, or advice for the measurement item with the second highest priority may always be selected.

In this embodiment, the measurement item for which advice is scheduled to be presented is the highest priority measurement item. However, if the previous highest priority measurement item and the current highest priority measurement item are the same, a measurement item with a second or lower priority is determined to be the measurement item for which advice is to be presented. In other words, in this embodiment, the measurement item for which advice is scheduled to be presented is different from the measurement item for which advice is actually presented.

In this way, when the previous highest priority measurement item is the same as the current highest priority measurement item, the presentation of advice includes presenting advice different from the previous advice among multiple pieces of advice set for a measurement item with the same priority as the previous time as well as presenting advice for a measurement item with a different priority from the previous time as the current advice.

Third Embodiment
In this embodiment, the touch panel display 50 alternately presents advice for measurement items with high priority and advice for measurement items with low priority.

In other words, the advice selection unit 78 of this embodiment alternately selects advice for a measurement item with a high priority and advice for a measurement item with a low priority. For example, if advice for a measurement item with a high priority was selected in the previous advice selection, advice for a measurement item with a high priority is selected in the current advice selection.

Specifically, measurement items with high priority are grouped together into a group of the top two measurement items (hereinafter referred to as the "top group"), and measurement items with low priority are grouped together into a group of the bottom three measurement items (hereinafter referred to as the "lower group"). Then, advice for the measurement item with the highest priority (first priority) in the top group and advice for the measurement item with the highest priority (third priority) in the lower group are selected alternately. In this way, by having the user not only execute advice for measurement items with high priority, but also execute advice for items with low priority, the user can prevent deterioration of their own function.

However, without being limited to this, the upper group may be the measurement items with the top three or top one priority, and the lower group may be the group with the bottom two or bottom four priority.

In addition, the advice for each measurement item is selected randomly or in a predetermined order. For example, if the measurement item with the highest priority is selected as the measurement item for which advice is to be presented, one piece of advice is selected randomly or in a predetermined order from among the multiple pieces of advice corresponding to that measurement item. The selected advice is then presented.

Fourth Embodiment
In the present embodiment, when the measurement items with the second or lower priority are the same consecutively, the touch panel display 50 does not continue to present the same advice as advice corresponding to the measurement items with the second or lower priority. Note that in the present embodiment, even when the measurement item with the highest priority is the same consecutively and the same advice is selected, the presented advice is not different.

Figure 9 is a flowchart showing the flow of the advice presentation process in this embodiment. Note that steps 400 to 404 in Figure 9 are the same as steps 300 to 304 in Figure 8.

In step 406, which is entered from step 404, the advice selection unit 78 determines whether the measurement items with second or lower priority are the same between the current and previous times, and if the determination is positive, the process proceeds to step 408, and if the determination is negative, the process proceeds to step 412.

In step 408, the advice selection unit 78 determines whether the advice numbers for the measurement items with the same priority between the current and previous times are the same, and if the determination is positive, the process proceeds to step 410, and if the determination is negative, the process proceeds to step 412.

In step 410, the advice selection unit 78 selects an advice number different from the previous advice number among the advice numbers corresponding to the measurement items with the same priority and determines it as the advice number to be presented. The selection of advice in step 410 may be, for example, randomly selected from advice numbers excluding the advice number presented last time, or an advice number shifted by one from the advice number presented last time may be selected.

Now, steps 406 to 410 will be described with reference to FIG. 10. FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram showing the combination of measurement items and advice in this embodiment. FIG. 10(A) shows the combination of the previous advice number and priority, and FIG. 10(B) shows the combination of the current advice number and priority.

As shown in Figures 10(A) and 10(B), the priorities are the same between the current and previous times, in the order of muscle strength, fatigue, weight, muscle function, and activity level. That is, in the determination in step 406, the order of fatigue, weight, muscle function, and activity level, which have second or lower priorities, is the same between the current and previous times. And, among the advice numbers corresponding to fatigue, weight, muscle function, and activity level, the advice number for fatigue is the same between the current and previous times. That is, in the determination in step 408, the advice number for fatigue, which has the second highest priority, is the same between the current and previous times.

Therefore, the processing in step 410 selects the current advice number for fatigue to be different from the previous advice number. Figure 10(C) shows the combination of the current advice number and priority presented to the user. As shown in Figure 10(C), the advice number for fatigue is set to advice number ex2, which is different from the previous advice number ex3 shown in Figure 10(A).

In step 412, which is entered from step 406 or step 410, the monitor control unit 64 causes the touch panel display 50 to present advice in the order of priority of the advice number determined in step 404 or step 410.

In this way, the mobile terminal device 18 of this embodiment does not continue to present the same advice even if the measurement items with the second or lower priority are the same consecutively. On the other hand, even if the measurement item with the highest priority is the same consecutively and the advice number is also the same, it is not treated as different advice.

In step 406 of this embodiment, it is determined whether the measurement items other than the top priority are the same between the current and previous times, but this is not limited to the above. For example, it may be determined whether the measurement items in a predetermined order below the second priority, such as only the second priority or only the second and third priority, are the same between the current and previous times.

The present invention has been described above using the above embodiment, but the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope described in the above embodiment. Various modifications or improvements can be made to the above embodiment without departing from the gist of the invention, and forms with such modifications or improvements are also included in the technical scope of the present invention.

In the above embodiment, a form in which advice is selected for all of a plurality of measurement items has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the advice selection unit 78 may select advice for measurement items whose judgment levels are "1" to "3". This allows the mobile terminal device 18 to present advice for measurement items with low judgment levels, in other words, advice corresponding to only measurement items that require improvement for the user.

In the above embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, a form in which multiple pieces of advice are set for each judgment result of a measurement item has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the advice that is set is a standard sentence for each measurement item, and the standard sentence may change dynamically depending on the judgment level of the measurement item.

In addition, advice that reflects the priority of other measurement items may be set as advice for each measurement item. For example, multiple pieces of advice are created when weight has the first priority as a measurement item and muscle strength has the second priority. Similarly, multiple pieces of advice are created when weight has the first priority and muscle function, activity level, and fatigue have the second priority. In this way, advice based on the combination of priorities is set for each measurement item, so that more appropriate advice is presented to the user.

In the above embodiment, the mobile terminal device 18 is provided with the body composition value calculation unit 62, the frailty assessment unit 74, the priority order determination unit 76, and the advice selection unit 78, but the present invention is not limited to this. The server 19 may also be provided with the frailty assessment unit 74, the priority order determination unit 76, and the advice selection unit 78. In this embodiment, the mobile terminal device 18 transmits the input contents for each measurement item acquired by the input content acquisition unit 72 to the server 19, and the server 19 selects advice based on the input contents. The server 19 then transmits the selected advice to the mobile terminal device 18. The mobile terminal device 18 presents the transmitted advice to the user.

In the above embodiment, the measurement items are transmitted from the upper body measuring device 12, the lower body measuring device 14, and the activity measuring device 16 to the mobile terminal device 18, but the present invention is not limited to this. Some or all of the measurement items may be directly input by the user to the mobile terminal device 18 via a frailty assessment app.

In the above embodiment, the measurement items for which advice is presented are determined based on the priority of the measurement items, but the present invention is not limited to this. The measurement items for which advice is presented may be determined by methods other than priority. Furthermore, the mobile terminal device 18 may present advice for all measurement items regardless of the priority of the measurement items, for example, or may present advice only for measurement items selected by the user. Even in these cases, the mobile terminal device 18 will not continue to present the same advice if the measurement items for which advice is presented are the same consecutively.

10 Measurement system 12 Upper body measurement device (body composition measurement device)
14 Lower body measuring device (weight measuring device, body composition measuring device)
16 Activity measuring device 18 Mobile terminal device (advice presentation device)
22 Grip strength measuring device (muscle strength measuring device)
50 Touch panel display (presentation means)
72 Input content acquisition unit (acquisition means)

Claims (14)

1. An advice presentation device that presents advice to a user based on a determination result for each of a plurality of items for determining a physical or mental functional state of the user,
An acquisition means for acquiring input contents for each of the plurality of items;
a presentation means for presenting the advice corresponding to a predetermined item to the user each time the input content is acquired;
Equipped with
the presentation means, when the predetermined item for which the advice is to be presented is the same consecutively, does not continue to present the same advice;
Advice presentation device. A plurality of pieces of advice are set for each of the items,
The advice presentation device according to claim 1 , wherein the presentation means presents the advice selected randomly or in a predetermined order as the advice corresponding to the predetermined item. Each time the input contents are acquired, a priority order of the items is determined based on a result of the determination of the plurality of items;
The predetermined items for which the advice is to be presented are determined based on the priority order.
The advice providing device according to claim 1 or 2. A plurality of pieces of advice are set for each of the items,
the predetermined item is the item with the highest priority among the priorities,
The advice presentation device according to claim 3, wherein when the previous top priority item and the current top priority item are the same, the presentation means presents, as the current advice, one of the multiple pieces of advice set for the top priority item that is different from the previous advice. The advice presentation device according to claim 3, wherein the presentation means presents the advice for the item with the second or lower priority as the current advice when the previous top priority item and the current top priority item are the same. A plurality of pieces of advice are set for each of the items,
the predetermined item is the item having the second or lower priority;
when the items having the second or lower priority rank are the same consecutively, the presentation means does not continue to present the same advice as the advice corresponding to the item having the second or lower priority rank.
The advice providing device according to claim 3 . The advice presentation device according to claim 3, wherein the presentation means alternately presents the advice for the item with the high priority and the advice for the item with the low priority. The advice presentation device according to claim 3, wherein the priority of the item for which the current judgment result is worse than the previous judgment result is set to be higher. The advice presentation device according to claim 3, wherein the presentation means presents only one piece of advice. A plurality of pieces of advice are set for each of the judgment results of the items,
The advice presentation device according to claim 3 , wherein the presentation means presents the advice selected in accordance with the determination results of the items in accordance with the priority order. The advice presentation device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the plurality of items are items for determining the user's frailty. The advice presentation device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the acquisition means acquires as the items the measurement results from at least one of a body weight measurement device, a body composition measurement device, a muscle strength measurement device, and an activity measurement device. 1. An advice presentation method for presenting advice to a user based on a judgment result for each of a plurality of items for judging a physical or mental functional state of the user, comprising:
A first step of acquiring input contents for each of the plurality of items by an acquisition means;
a second step of presenting the advice corresponding to a predetermined item to the user by a presentation means each time the input content is acquired;
having
In the second step, when the predetermined item for which the advice is to be presented is the same consecutively, the same advice is not continuously presented.
How to present advice. A computer that causes a presentation means to present advice to a user based on a result of the judgment for each of a plurality of items for judging a state of a physical or mental function of the user,
A first step of acquiring input contents for each of the plurality of items by an acquisition means;
a second step of presenting the advice corresponding to a predetermined item to the user by a presentation means each time the input content is acquired;
Run the command,
When the predetermined item for which the advice is to be presented is the same consecutively, the same advice is not continuously presented on the presentation means.
Advice presentation program.

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