Electronic systems and methods for the assessment of emotional state
The present invention is directed to an electronic system for the assessment of emotional state. The system allows individual employees to specify their emotions using a set of emojis. The system provides a graphical user interface that displays a list of different emotions and associated emojis that the user can select. The system allows the user to write an entry about his thoughts and emotions in conjunction with the selected emojis and send the message with the emojis to individuals with whom he chooses to share. The system provides a list of company-wide employees from which the user can select. The system receives the messages and implements data structures to process the received messages and produce individual and company-wide emotional state information.
1. A system for assessment of emotional state comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable medium storing an emotion journaling application that causes a computer device to execute a method, the method comprising:
communicating with a database storing a list of names that part of an enterprise and obtain the list of names;
providing a user interface configured to allow creation of an electronic message, wherein the user interface is configured to:
allow selection of a message recipient from the list of employee names;
provide a list of emotion graphical representations;
allow selection of one or more emotion graphical representations or an odd number of emotion graphical representations greater than three from the list of emotion graphical representations;
provide a text area allowing a user of the computer device to input an entry in his or her own words;
make an electronic message transmittable to an electronic message processing system or the selected recipient when at least one message recipient has been selected, one or more emotion graphical representations have been selected, and a text entry has been inputted; and
make an electronic message available to the selected recipient, wherein the selected recipient can access the electronic message through an emotion journaling application on his or her computer device mobile device;
an electronic message processing system configured to receive messages created through the user interface and messages created through the user interfaces of the computer devices with the emotion journaling application, the electronic message processing system comprising:
a post data structure configured to convey information in the created message;
an emotion icon data structure configured to convey emotion icon-related information;
a post and emotion mapping data structure configured to convey emotional state information based information in the post-data structure and information in the emotion-icon data structure, wherein the emotional state information is communicated to the computer device and used by the emotion journaling application to present individual, group-wide, or company-wide emotional state information over a period of time; and
a post-access data structure configured to make the electronic message available to the elected recipients based on information in the post-data structure, wherein the post-access data structure is used by recipient's emotion journaling application to make the electronic message available to the selected recipient.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the emotion graphical representations include a group of positive emotion graphical representations and a group of negative emotion graphical representations, wherein each representation in the positive group is associated with a positive numerical value and each representation in the negative group is associated with an equivalent negative numerical value.
3. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an emotion journaling application that causes a computer system including a mobile device to execute a method, the method comprising:
providing a user interface configured to allow creation of an electronic message, wherein the providing comprising:
allowing selection of a message recipient from a list of individual names of an enterprise;
providing a list of emotion graphical representations;
allowing selection of one or more emotion graphical representations;
providing a text area allowing user of the mobile device input an entry in his own words;
making an electronic message transmittable to an electronic message processing system or the selected recipient when at least one message recipient has been selected, three or more emotion graphical representations have been selected, and a text entry has been inputted; and
making an electronic message available to the selected recipient, wherein the selected recipient can access the electronic message through an emotion journaling application on his mobile device; and
presenting individual, group-wide, or company-wide emotional state information over a period of time that includes the three selections of emotion graphical representations in the messages.
4. The non-transitory computer medium of claim 3 , wherein the method further comprising:
providing an electronic message processing system configured to receive messages created through the user interface, wherein the providing comprising:
implementing a post and emotion mapping data structure configured to convey emotional state information based on information in a database storing electronic messages created through the user interface and information in a database storing emotion icons, wherein the emotional state information is communicated to the mobile device and used to present individual, group-wide, or company-wide emotional state information over a period of time; and
implementing a post access data structure configured to make the electronic message available to the selected recipients based on information in the database storing electronic messages created through the user interface, wherein the post access data structure is used by recipient's emotion journaling application to make the electronic message available to the selected recipient.
5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the emotion graphical representations include a group of positive emotion graphical representations and a group of negative emotion graphical representations, wherein each representation in the positive group is associated with a positive numerical value and each representation in the negative group is associated with an equivalent negative numerical value.
6. A computer-implemented method comprising:
communicating with a database storing a list of individual names that are part of enterprise and obtain the list of names;
providing a user interface configured to allow creation of an electronic message, wherein the user interface is configured to:
allow selection of a message recipient from the list of names;
provide a list of emotion graphical representations;
allow selection of one or more emotion graphical representations or an odd number of emotion graphical representations greater than three from the list of emotion graphical representations;
provide a text area allowing a user of the mobile device to input an entry in his own words;
make an electronic message transmittable to an electronic message processing system or the selected recipient when at least one message recipient has been selected, one or more of the emotion graphical representations have been selected, and a text entry has been inputted;
make an electronic message available to the selected recipient, wherein the selected recipient can access the electronic message through an emotion journaling application on his mobile device; and
present individual, group-wide, or company-wide emotional state information over a period of time based on messages created through the user interface and messages created through user interfaces of the other mobile devices with the emotion journaling application;
communicating with or establishing a system including:
a post data structure configured to convey information in the created message;
an emotion icon data structure configured to convey emotion icon-related information;
a post and emotion mapping data structure configured to convey emotional state information based information in the post-data structure and information in the emotion-icon data structure, wherein the emotional state information is communicated to the mobile device and used by the emotion journaling application to present individual, group-wide, and company-wide emotional state information over a period of time; and
a post-access data structure configured to make the electronic message available to the selected recipients based on information in the post-data structure, wherein the post-access data structure is used by recipient's emotion journaling application to make the electronic message available to the selected recipient.