System and method for enhancing content using brain-state data
A computer system or method may be provided for modulating content based on a person's brainwave data, including modifying presentation of digital content at at least one computing device. The content may also be modulated based on a set of rules maintained by or accessible to the computer system. The content may also be modulated based on user input, including through receipt of a presentation control command that may be processed by the computer system of the present invention to modify presentation of content. Content may also be shared with associated brain state information.
1. A system comprising:
at least one computing device;
at least one user input device in communication with the at least one computing device;
the at least one computing device configured to:
receive, over a communication network from at least one remote computing device with at least one remote user, a current brain state from each of the at least one remote user, the current brain state computed using bio-signal data from at least one bio-signal sensor in communication with the at least one remote computing device;
present digital content at the at least one computing device for presentation to at least one user;
and
modify presentation of the digital content at the at least one computing device based at least partly on the received current brain state from each of the at least one remote user, at least one presentation modification rule associated with the presented digital content, and at least one presentation control command received from the at least one user input device.
2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one bio-signal sensor in communication with the at least one computing device;
wherein the at least one computing device is configured to receive bio-signal data of the at least one user from the at least one bio-signal sensor, at least one of the at least one bio-signal sensor comprising a brainwave sensor, and the received bio-signal data comprising at least brainwave data of the at least one user, and modify the presentation of the digital content at the at least one computing device based at least partly on the bio-signal data.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the at least one computing device is configured to determine at least one current brain state of the at least one user in response to the presented digital content using the bio-signal data, the brain state determined based at least partly on received bio-signal data, and transmit the at least one current brain state of the at least one user to the at least one remote computing device for presentation to the at least one remote user.
4. The system of claim 2 wherein the presentation modifying comprises presenting at least a subset of the received bio-signal data based at least partly on the received bio-signal data.
5. The system of claim 2 wherein the presentation modifying comprises presenting at least one representation of the user's brain state based at least partly on the received bio-signal data, the at least one presentation modification rule, and the at least one presentation control command.
6. The system of claim 2 wherein the received bio-signal data comprises time-coded bio-signal data, and the digital content presentation comprises time-coded presentation data, the at least one computing device configured to synchronize the time-coded bio-signal data to the time-coded presentation data at least partly by synchronizing time stamps between the time-coded bio-signal data and the time-coded presentation data, wherein the time-coded presentation data may be used by the at least one computing device to determine at least one presentation state of the presented digital content at a respective time stamp.
7. The system of claim 6 wherein the presentation modifying comprises modifying presentation of the digital content based at least partly on a correspondence between the time-coded bio-signal data at at least one time stamp with the time-coded presentation data at the at least one time stamp.
8. The system of claim 2 wherein the presentation modification comprises the at least one computing device sharing at least a part of the presented digital content, or a link thereto, with at least one other user on a content sharing server.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one computing device is configured to update the at least one presentation modification rule based at least partly on presentation modification rule data received from at least one computer server over a communications network.
10. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one presentation control command indicates a target brain state, and the presentation modification comprises presenting digital content that is associated with the target brain state at the at least one computing device.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one computing device is configured to receive over the communication network from the at least one remote computing device with the at least one remote user a video stream from each of the at least one remote user.
12. A system comprising:
at least one computing device;
at least one user input device in communication with the at least one computing device;
the at least one computing device configured to:
receive brain state data over a communication network from at least one remote computing device with at least one remote user, the received brain state data representing at least one brain state of each of the at least one remote user of the at least one remote computing device
present digital content at the at least one computing device for presentation to at least one user;
and
associate the brain state data from each of the at least one remote user with the presented digital content.
13. The system of claim 12 , further comprising:
at least one bio-signal sensor in communication with the at least one computing device;
wherein the at least one computing device is configured to receive bio-signal data of the at least one user from the at least one bio-signal sensor, at least one of the at least one bio-signal sensor comprising a brainwave sensor, and the received bio-signal data comprising at least brainwave data of the at least one user;
determine at least one brain state of the user in response to the presented digital content, the brain state determining based at least partly on received bio-signal data; and
associate the determined brain state with the presented digital content.
14. The system of claim 13 wherein the received bio-signal data comprises time-coded bio-signal data, and the digital content presentation comprises time-coded presentation data, the at least one computing device configured to synchronize the time-coded bio-signal data to the time-coded presentation data at least partly by synchronizing time stamps between the time-coded bio-signal data and the time-coded presentation data, wherein the time-coded presentation data may be used by the at least one computing device to determine at least one presentation state of the presented digital content at a respective time stamp.
15. The system of claim 13 wherein the determined brain state comprises at least one user emotion quantified by the at least one computing device in accordance with at least one bio-signal analysis rule.
16. The system of claim 13 wherein the at least one brain state determining is determined in real-time.
17. The system of claim 13 wherein the at least one computing device is configured to modify presentation of the digital content at the at least one client computing device based at least partly on the at least one determined brain state and at least one presentation modification rule associated with the presented digital content.
18. The system of claim 13 wherein the at least one computing device is configured to receive communication content during a communication session established over a communications network with at least one remote computing device; wherein the digital content presenting comprises presenting the received communication content at the at least one computing device for presentation to at least one user; and the determined brain state associating comprises associating the determined brain state with the received communication content.
19. The system of claim 12 wherein the received brain state data comprises time-coded brain state data, and the received communication content comprises time-coded communication content, the at least one computing device configured to synchronize the received time-coded brain state data to the time-coded communication content at least partly by synchronizing time stamps between the received time-coded brain state data and the time-coded communication content, wherein the time-coded communication content may be used by the at least one computing device to determine the brain state of the remote user at a respective time stamp of the received communication content.
20. A method performed by at least one computing device in communication with at least one bio-signal sensor, and at least one user input device, the method comprising:
receiving, over a communication network from at least one remote computing device with at least one remote user, a current brain state from each of the at least one remote user;
presenting digital content at the at least one computing device for presentation to at least one user;
receiving bio-signal data of the at least one user from the at least one bio-signal sensor, at least one of the at least one bio-signal sensor comprising a brainwave sensor, and the received bio-signal data comprising at least brainwave data of the at least one user; and
modifying presentation of the digital content at the at least one computing device based at least partly on the current brain state from each of the at least one remote user, the received bio-signal data, at least one presentation modification rule associated with the presented digital content, and at least one presentation control command received from the at least one user input device.