JPH03171225A - Action data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically impart conversation data to action data by comparing data showing the time range of work and conversation time data and judging whether it is a conversation within the time range of work or not. CONSTITUTION:A reader 11 reads action data from an action data recording device 10 one line by one and outputs it to an action data recording device with conversation 19. Readers 12 and 13 respectively read start time data and termination time data of work from action data and output them to a comparison device 17. On the other hand, a reader 15 reads conversation data from a conversation data recording device 14 one line by one and a reader 16 reads time data from conversation data and outputs it to the comparison device 17. When the conversation is executed in the middle of work from the compared result of the comparison device 17, a controller 18 writes conversation data which the reader 15 reads into the action data recording device with conversation 19. Thus, conversation data of the conversation in the middle of work can automatically be imparted to action data.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention provides utterances made during the execution of a task, which are added as utterance data to action data consisting of the name of the task, its start time, and its end time. The present invention relates to a behavioral data processing device.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in order to evaluate the usability of OA equipment, there is a method called a protocol analysis method in which users actually use the equipment, and the process is recorded on a VTR tape or the like and analyzed. In this method, the user's behavior during the experiment is analyzed by comparing the utterance data recorded by the user during the experiment with the content of the VTR. In particular, the time at which the user spoke is added to this utterance data as time data, which is used as a reference when comparing the utterance data with the contents of the VTR ("Evaluation of the ease of use of Japanese WP using protocol analysis method"). “Information Processing Society of Japan Research Group Report, 87-DPH
I-14-3.1987>. Also, during the experiment, the experimenter reads the running time of the VTR tape, adds the time when the subject started and finished a certain task to the name of the task, and records the user's behavior data. Create something. When analyzing a subject's behavior after an experiment, we look at the behavior data and refer to the contents of the VTR to observe the purpose of the user's behavior and infer why the user said a particular story. and analyze user behavior.

When analyzing Yuji's behavior by observing what the user uttered during the task, conventional technology uses the time range of the start time and end time of the task in the behavioral data.
The user's behavior data was written into the corresponding part of the utterance data using an editor, etc., and the behavior data and the utterance data were combined and used.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In such conventional technology, it takes time to use an editor or the like to look at the start and end times of a behavioral data task, search for a range of utterance data that falls within that time range, and write the behavioral data. This caused a hindrance in proceeding with subsequent analysis work.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a behavior data processing device that adds utterance data of utterances made during work to behavior data in order to omit the work of associating utterance data with behavior data and eliminate obstacles to analysis work. It is in.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the present invention, as a means for adding utterance data to action data, the name of a certain work is added to the time when the work started for a work action recorded on a recording means such as a VTR tape. an action data recording device that records action data to which start time data indicating the end time and end time data indicating the end time are added; an action data reading device that reads the action data from the action data recording device; and an action data reading device that reads the action data from the action data recording device. a start time data reading device for reading work start time data; an end time data reading device for reading work end time data from the action data reading device; A speech data recording device that records speech data written in the form of text data; a speech data reading device that reads speech data from the speech data recording device; and a speech data recording device that records speech data written in a text data format; an utterance time data reading device that reads time data at a time when the utterance time data is read, and the utterance time data from the utterance time data reading device is configured to read start time data from the start time data reading device and end time data from the end time data reading device. a comparison device that determines whether the utterance falls within a time range between the behavior data reading device and the utterance data reading device that determines that the utterance was made during the performance of the behavior based on the behavior data from the behavior data reading device and the comparison device. an utterance-attached behavior data recording device for recording utterance data from a utterance; an operation for the utterance data reading device to read the utterance data based on a determination result of the comparison device; A behavioral data processing device is provided that includes a control device that controls the operation of writing the speech data into a behavioral data recording device.

[Effect]

In the above structure, the behavior data recording device previously records the name of the task performed by the subject and the start and end times thereof as behavior data in the form of text data. Further, the utterance data recording device records the utterances uttered by the familiar and the times at which the utterances were made as utterance data in the form of text data.

The behavior data reading device reads one line of behavior data from the behavior data recording device upon receiving a command to read behavior data from the control device. The action data that has been read is output to the action data recorder with utterances. Further, the start time data reading device and the delivery time data reading device respectively read the start time and delivery time data of the work. The start time data reading device and the end time data reading device {] output the respective time data to the comparison device as data indicating the time range of the work. On the other hand, when the speech data reading device receives a command from the control device to read the speech data, the speech data reading device reads the speech data from the speech data recording device.
Read line. Further, upon receiving a command from the control device to output the read speech data to the speech-attached action data recording device, the read speech data is output to the speech-attached action data recording device. The utterance time data reading device reads utterance time data from the utterance data of the utterance data reading device and writes this into the comparison device. The comparison device compares the data indicating the time range of the work with the read utterance time data, determines whether the utterance was made within the time range of the work, and outputs the determination result to the control device. The control device instructs the utterance data reading device to read the next utterance if the utterance was made before the start of the work as a result of the comparison by the comparison device.

Also, if the utterance was made while working,
Writes the speech data read by the speech data reading device into the speech-attached action data recording device, and instructs the speech data recording device to read the next speech data from the speech data recording device. If the utterance was made after work, the action data reading device is instructed to read the next action data from the action data recording device. By repeating these series of operations, the work of writing behavioral data into speech data is automatically performed, and this procedure can be omitted.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. The behavior data recording device 10 records behavior data consisting of name data 2l of work performed during the experiment, start time data 22, and end time data 23, a part of which is shown in FIG.

The utterance data recording device 14 records the utterances uttered by the test subject during the experiment, along with the time at which the utterances were made, in the form of test data, a part of which is shown in FIG. The behavior data reading device 11 reads behavior data line by line from the behavior data recording device 1o and outputs it to the behavior data recording device 19 with speech. The start time data reader 12 and the end time data reader 13 each read work start time data and end time data from the action data read by the action data reader 11, and output them to the comparison device 17. On the other hand, the speech data reading device 15 reads one speech data from the speech data recording device l4.
Read line by line. The utterance time data reading device 16 reads time data from the utterance data reading device I5 and outputs it to the comparison device I7. The comparison device 17 holds the work start time data and end time data from the start time data reading device 12 and the end time data reading device 13 as a time range of the work. Based on this time range, it is compared whether the utterance time data from the utterance time data reader rIt16 is before the start of the work, during the work, or after the end of the work, and the comparison result is is output to the control device l8.

The control device 18 is a comparison device! i! If it is determined from the comparison result in step 17 that the utterance was made before the start of work, a command to read the next utterance data is output to the utterance data reading device 15. When it is determined that the utterance was made during work, the utterance data reading device [15 is instructed to output the utterance data to the utterance-attached action data recording device 19 and then read the next utterance data from the utterance data recording device 14. Output. In addition, when it is determined that the utterance was made after the work was completed, the behavior data reading device 11
A command to read the next behavior data from the behavior data recording device 10 is output.

The operation of this embodiment will now be specifically described, assuming that action data as partially shown in FIG. 2 and speech data as partially shown in FIG. 3 are to be processed. Here, the behavior data recording device l0, the utterance data recording device ffi
14 and the behavior data recording device with speech 19 can be realized by, for example, a magnetic disk, and the other devices can be realized by a microcomputer or the like. Now, "Replacing the recording paper"
When the processing related to the task is completed, the control device 18 instructs the behavior data reading device 11 to read the next behavior data from the behavior data recording device 1O in order to start processing the behavior data of the next task. Here, it is assumed that the behavior data reading device 11 reads the behavior data of the task "setting the clock" from the behavior data recording device IO as the next behavior data. The behavior data reading device 11 transfers this behavior data to the behavior data recording device l with speech.
Output to 9.

Further, the start time data reading device l2 reads work start time data rl2:ll'' from the behavior data read by the behavior data reading device 11.

Similarly, the end time data reading device l3 reads the work end time data rl3:25. The time data read by the start time data reading device 12 and the end time data reading device 13 are output to the comparison device 17, respectively. In the comparator 17, based on these time data, "
It is retained as the time range for the task of "setting the clock." On the other hand, when the processing for the action data of the task "exchanging the recording paper" is completed, the speech data reading device l5 reads "l2:13" from among the speech data shown in FIG.
yes. ” is recorded in the utterance data recording device l4.
Read from. When the utterance data is read into the utterance data reading device 15, the utterance time data reading device 16 reads utterance time data rl2:13'' indicating the time at which the utterance was made from the utterance data. Utterance time data reading device 1
The utterance time data read in step 6 is output to the comparison device 17 and compared with the time range data already set in the comparison device 17. As a result of the comparison, it is determined that this utterance was made during the task of "setting the clock." The comparison device 17 outputs this comparison result to the control device 18. The control device l8 is currently reading the speech data reading device 15 rl2:13 Yes. '' is determined to have been made during the task of "setting the clock," so the utterance data reading device 15 outputs this utterance data to the utterance-attached action data recording device 19, A command is issued to read the next speech data from the speech data recording device 14. The operation of sequentially reading the utterance data from the utterance data recording device 14 and comparing the utterance time data with the work time range in the comparison device 17 is performed at rl3:23 in FIG. ” is read and repeated until it is determined that this utterance data is not an utterance made during a task, and as shown in Figure 4, the behavior data for the task ``setting the clock'' is read. Utterance data of the utterance made can be attached.

When it is determined that the process of adding utterance data to the action data for the task of "setting the clock" has been completed, the control device l8 causes the action data reading device l1 to select the next action data shown in FIG. Outputs a command to read the behavior data for the task ``Register a phone number.'' Similarly to the process for the action data of the task "setting the clock" described above, the time range of the task is set in the comparator 17 for this data as well. When the working time range is set in the comparison device 17, the control device 18 instructs the speech data reading device 15 to read from the speech data recording device 14. Here, the speech data reading device l5 reads rl3:30 in FIG. ” is read. Here, the time range set in the comparison device 17 is that the start time is 14:20 and the end time is 17:42, and the comparison device 17 FIJ determines that this utterance data is utterance data made before the start of work. Ru. Based on this determination result, the control device ffil8 outputs a command to the speech data reading device l5 to read the next speech data from the speech data recording device l4 without outputting this speech data to the speech-attached action data recording device 19. do. In this operation, the utterance data reading device 15 reads the utterance data "14:23 Ah, yes." made within the time range of the task of "registering a telephone number" from among the utterance data shown in FIG. , is repeated until the comparing device 17 determines that this utterance data is an utterance made during work. Thereafter, the above-described operation of adding utterance data to the action data is repeated, and the utterance data can be added to the action data for the task of "registering a telephone number."

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, when the behavior data and the utterance data are created in advance in the form of text data, the utterance data can be automatically added to the behavior data. Therefore, by adopting the device of the present invention, the procedure for matching utterance data to behavioral data, which was previously performed using an editor, is omitted, and it is possible to match utterance data to behavioral data in a short time. , it is possible to remove obstacles to user behavior analysis work.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of behavioral data handled by the embodiment, and Fig. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of speech data handled by the embodiment. , FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of the result of processing according to the embodiment. 10... Behavior data recording device, 1l... Behavior data reading device, l2... Start time data reading device, l3... End time data reading device, 14... Utterance data recording device, 15... - Utterance data reading device, l6... Utterance time data reading device, 17... Comparison device, 18... Control device, l9...
Behavior data recording device with speech, 2l...work name data, 22...start time data, 23...end time data.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Behavior data that records behavior data recorded on a recording means such as a VTR tape, with start time data indicating the time when the task started and end time data indicating the time the task finished added to the name of a certain task. a recording device, a behavior data reading device that reads behavior data from the behavior data recording device, a start time data reading device that reads work start time data from the behavior data reading device, and a work end time read from the behavior data reading device. an end time data reading device for reading data; a speech data recording device for recording speech data in which the content of the speech recorded in the recording means and the time at which the speech was made are described in the form of text data; An utterance data reading device that reads utterance data, an utterance time data reading device that reads time data of the time when an utterance is made from among the utterance data read by the utterance data reading device, and an utterance time from the utterance time data reading device. a comparison device that determines whether data falls within a time range between the start time data from the start time data reader and the end time data from the end time data reader; an utterance-attached behavior data recording device that records the utterance data from the utterance data reading device that is determined by the comparison device to have been uttered during the execution of the behavior; It is characterized by comprising a control device that controls an operation of the behavior data reading device to read the behavior data and an operation of the speech data reading device to read the speech data and write the speech data to the speech-attached behavior data recording device. Behavioral data processing device.