Apparatus and method for analyzing personal behavior
The invention provides a personal behavior analysis apparatus capable of statistically analyzing a personal behavior. To analyze personal behaviors, a population data file is provided that stores flow-line data for individual persons as a population acquired by tracking the behaviors of persons within a monitored area. After input of a condition for narrowing down the flow-line data as analysis objects is accepted via a condition input section, the population data file is searched based on the condition and flow-line data meeting the condition is acquired. The acquired flow-line data is stored in a subpopulation data file as a subpopulation. A control section of the apparatus calculates statistics values related to personal behavior analysis using the flow-line data stored in the subpopulation data file and displays them on a display section.
1. A personal behavior analysis apparatus comprising:
a population storage section storing individual flow-line data as a population, each of the individual flow-line data being acquired by tracking the behavior of each person within a monitored area;
a condition input section accepting input of a condition for narrowing down the flow-line data as analysis objects from the data stored as a population in the population storage section;
searching means for searching the population storage section according to the condition input through the condition input section to acquire flow-line data meeting the condition;
a subpopulation storage section storing the flow-line data acquired by the searching means as a subpopulation;
a subpopulation statistics-value calculator for calculating a statistics-value relating to personal behavior analysis using the flow-line data stored in the subpopulation storage section; and
a statistics-value display for displaying the subpopulation statistics-value calculated by the subpopulation statistics-value calculator.
2. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a flow-line display for displaying a flow-line according to the flow-line data stored in the subpopulation storage section.
3. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising list generating means for generating a flow-line identification information list for individually identifying each flow-line data stored in the subpopulation storage section and a list display for displaying a flow-line identification information list generated by list generating means, wherein the flow-line display displays the flow line of flow-line data specified by flow-line identification information arbitrarily selected from the flow-line identification information list.
4. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the list display displays the flow-line identification information list sorted with any of list items as a sort key.
5. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a correlating information storage section storing correlation information correlating purchase information of each customer with the flow-line data of the relevant customer;
purchase information acquisition means for acquiring purchase information that is correlated with flow-line data specified by selected flow-line identification information based on the correlation information stored in the correlation information storage section, after arbitrary flow-line identification information is selected from the list displayed on the list display; and
a purchase information display that displays the purchase information acquired by the purchase information acquisition means.
6. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the statistics-value display further displays population statistics-value calculated by a population statistics-value calculator in parallel for comparison.
7. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the statistics-value display comparatively displays the subpopulation statistics-value calculated by the subpopulation statistics-value calculator and the population statistics-value calculated by the population statistics-value calculator by a graph created with the respective statistics-values.
8. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the flow-line data contains time information created from the time when a customer enters the monitored area until the customer exits the monitored area, and the condition input section is enabled to accept input of a conditional item pertaining to the time.
9. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising an area division information storage section storing area division information for dividing the monitored area into multiple plots, wherein the flow-line data contains position information created from the time when a customer enters the monitored area until the customer exits the monitored area, and the condition input section is enabled to accept input of a conditional item pertaining to the plot.
10. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a correlating information storage section storing correlation information correlating purchase information of each customer within the monitored area with the flow-line data of the relevant customer, wherein the condition input section is enabled to accept input of a conditional item pertaining to the purchase information.
11. The personal behavior analysis apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
report generating means for generating a report as to the flow-line data stored in the subpopulation storage section; and
report output means for outputting the report generated by the report generating means.
12. A computer-readable recording medium installing a personal behavior program executed by a computer having an input section, a display section, and a storage section, the program being configured to enable the computer to perform:
a population storage function of storing individual flow-line data as a population in the storage section, each of the individual flow-line data acquired by tracking the behavior of each person within a monitored area;
a condition input function of accepting input of a condition for narrowing down the flow-line data as analysis objects from the data as the population stored in the storage section;
a searching function of searching the data as the population stored in the storage section according to the condition input through the input section to acquire flow-line data meeting the condition;
a subpopulation storage function of storing the flow-line data acquired by the searching function as a subpopulation;
a subpopulation statistics-value computing function of computing a statistics-value relating to the personal behavior analysis using the flow-line data stored as the subpopulation in the storage section; and
a statistics-value display function of displaying on the display section the subpopulation statistics-value computed by the subpopulation statistics-value computing function.
13. The recording medium according to claim 12 , the program enabling the computer to further perform:
a flow-line display function of displaying a flow-line of the flow-line data stored as the subpopulation in the storage section.
14. The recording medium according to claim 12 , the program enabling the computer to further perform:
a list generating function of generating a flow-line identification information list for identifying each flow-line data stored as the subpopulation in the storage section; and
a list display function of displaying the flow-line identification information list generated by the list generating function.