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Tailoring computing experience based on user’s mental state and quality of attention: Key neurotechnology patent #30

March 14, 2017 by SharpBrains

Automated selection
– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 7,395,507

Today we high­light a fas­ci­nat­ing 2008 patent assigned to Microsoft, dis­cussing assess­ment tech­niques such as pupil track­ing or head ori­en­ta­tion sen­sors to iden­ti­fy where and what the user is focused on–and what types of  infor­ma­tion and/ or noti­fi­ca­tions to dis­play accordingly.

U.S. Patent No. 7,395,507: Auto­mat­ed selec­tion of appro­pri­ate infor­ma­tion based on a com­put­er user’s context.

  • Assignee(s): Microsoft Corporation
  • Inventor(s): James O. Robarts, Dan Newell, Ken­neth H. Abbott
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neuro-monitoring
  • Issue Date: July 1, 2008

SharpBrains’ Take:

The ‘507 patent dis­clos­es meth­ods for assess­ing a user’s men­tal state and more broad­ly the user’s con­text, to dis­cern whether or not to present the users with a mes­sage (e.g., an adver­tise­ment). [Read more…] about Tai­lor­ing com­put­ing expe­ri­ence based on user’s men­tal state and qual­i­ty of atten­tion: Key neu­rotech­nol­o­gy patent #30

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: assessment, attention, brain data, brain health assessment, Brain-health, mental state, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, neuro-monitoring, neuro-technology, neurological, patent, psychological

Best practices to navigate and implement the emerging brain health toolkit

October 28, 2015 by SharpBrains

Please con­sid­er join­ing us at Sharp­Brains’ upcom­ing vir­tu­al con­fer­ence (Novem­ber 17–19th), which will fea­ture this fan­tas­tic session:

Tuesday November 17th, 12.30 — 1.30pm. Best prac­tices to nav­i­gate and imple­ment the emerg­ing brain health toolkit.

Two well-rec­og­nized prac­ti­tion­ers, at UMass and Wal­ter Reed, will describe their respec­tive well­ness and rehab ini­tia­tives, focus­ing on the prac­ti­cal con­sid­er­a­tions to nav­i­gate, select, and imple­ment the grow­ing array of tech­nol­o­gy-enabled brain health and behav­ioral health assess­ments and interventions.

  • Chair: Dr. Michael O’Donnell, Edi­tor-In-Chief of the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Health Promotion
  • Dr. Dou­glas Ziedo­nis, Pro­fes­sor and Chair of the Depart­ment of Psy­chi­a­try at the Uni­ver­sity of Mass­a­chu­setts Med­ical School
  • Kate Sul­li­van, Direc­tor of the Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter at Wal­ter Reed Nation­al Mil­i­tary Med­ical Center

[Read more…] about Best prac­tices to nav­i­gate and imple­ment the emerg­ing brain health toolkit

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Health Promotion, Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter, brain health assessment, Brain-Fitness-Center, Brain-health, digital, Dou­glas Ziedo­nis, innovation, Kate Sul­li­van, Michael O’Donnell, neuroplasticity, Post-Science, Psy­chi­a­try, umass, Walter Reed, workplace

Braintainment Resources ranked #26 Holder of Pervasive Neurotech Intellectual Property*

August 7, 2015 by SharpBrains

BrainBrain­tain­ment Resources/ Brain.com was a pio­neer in the mid-to-late 1990s in the pro­duc­tion of cog­ni­tive train­ing and brain health assess­ment soft­ware. Their main prod­ucts, Think Fast and Cog­nome­ter, were intend­ed to be used on a home PC to mea­sure and improve men­tal skills such as mem­o­ry, atten­tion, [Read more…] about Brain­tain­ment Resources ranked #26 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech Intel­lec­tu­al Property*

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: attention, brain health assessment, Cognitive-Training, Cognometer, memory, mental ability, neurotech, patents, pervasive, speed, think fast

New York University ranked #19 Holder of Pervasive Neurotech Intellectual Property*

July 14, 2015 by SharpBrains

NYUNew York Uni­ver­si­ty is an aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tion in low­er Man­hat­tan, New York. Research there on non-inva­sive neu­rotech­nol­o­gy has yield­ed sig­nif­i­cant intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty relat­ing to EEG mon­i­tor­ing, brain health assess­ment, [Read more…] about New York Uni­ver­si­ty ranked #19 Hold­er of Per­va­sive Neu­rotech Intel­lec­tu­al Property*

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anesthesia guidance, brain health assessment, Brain Monitoring, consumer behavior, EEG monitoring, NeuroFocus, neuromodulation, neurotech, Neurotechnology, patents, pervasive, Polysomnograph scoring, sleep analysis techniques

Top 14 Brain Fitness News in 2014: Research, Assessments and Training

December 18, 2014 by Alvaro Fernandez

BrainFitnessTrajectoryUnless you live in a cave, you are well aware of all the grow­ing inter­est in–and con­tro­ver­sies around–the top­ics of brain fit­ness and brain training.

A lit­tle per­spec­tive may help sep­a­rate the sig­nal from the noise. Take a minute to think about the ear­ly years of the phys­i­cal fit­ness move­ment. It took decades of con­flict­ing research and con­fus­ing media cov­er­age to final­ly spread the idea that dai­ly life activ­i­ties are far from suf­fi­cient to keep us phys­i­cal­ly fit. And, at the same time, to [Read more…] about Top 14 Brain Fit­ness News in 2014: Research, Assess­ments and Training

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AARP, AnthroTronix, Bay­crest, brain health assessment, Brain-Fitness, Brain-health, Brain-Plasticity, Brain-Training, fit-brains, Gaiam, Interaxon, Lifestyle Medicine, neurocognitive, neurocognitive plasticity, Reebok, Rosetta Stone, Thync, UCSF

Michael Meagher (Cogniciti): Let’s transform brain health from “suffer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-control”

September 24, 2014 by Alvaro Fernandez

Michael Meagher

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there?
As the Pres­i­dent of Cog­nic­i­ti, a spin-off from Bay­crest reseach cen­ter and hos­pi­tal, I am excit­ed to help trans­form brain health from a reac­tive, “suf­fer-in-silence” space to a proac­tive, “let-me-take-con­trol-of-my-health” space. [Read more…] about Michael Meagher (Cog­nic­i­ti): Let’s trans­form brain health from “suf­fer-in-silence” to “let-me-take-con­trol”

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Baycrest, brain health assessment, Brain-health, Cogniciti, memory concern, Ontario

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