Systems, computer medium and computer-implemented methods for coaching employees based upon monitored health conditions using an avatar

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9833142-B2
Application number	US-201213540208-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 2, 2012
Priority date	Jul 5, 2011
Publication date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017

Abstract

Provided are embodiments of systems, computer medium and computer-implemented methods for monitoring the health of an employee. A method for monitoring the health of an employee including collecting health data corresponding to at least one of biometric health data and biomechanical health data for an employee acquired via a plurality of health sensors located throughout the employee's workstation, determining a health profile for the employee based at least in part on the collected health data, and serving, to an employee computer for display, health profile content comprising an avatar configured to communicate information relating to the health profile for the employee. The plurality of health sensors including at least one of biometric sensors and biomechanical sensors.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for providing health information to an employee based on one more monitored health conditions, the system comprising:
an employee computer workstation comprising a graphical user interface (GUI), the employee computer workstation being in communication with a communications network;
a set of health sensors located at the workstation for detecting biometric and biomechanical characteristics of the health of the employee, the set of health sensors comprising at least one of:
a set of biometric sensors in communication with the communications network and comprising at least one of one or more temperature transducers, one or more force transducers, one or more pairs of conductive contacts, one or more blood pressure transducers, one or more respiration sensors, and one or more pulse oximeters, the set of biometric sensors configured to output biometric sensor data comprising temperature data output by one or more of the temperature transducers that is indicative of a body temperature of the employee, force data output by one or more of the force transducers that is indicative of a body weight of the employee, resistance data output by one or more of the pairs of conductive contacts that is indicative of a body fat of the employee, pressure data output by one or more of the blood pressure transducers that is indicative of a blood pressure of the employee, respiration data output by the one or more respiration sensors indicative of a respiration rate of the employee, and blood condition data output by one or more of the pulse oximeters that is indicative of a blood oxygenation of the employee; and
a set of biomechanical sensors in communication with the communications network and comprising one or more temperature transducers, one or more force transducers and one or more cameras adapted to capture three-dimensional video data, the set of biomechanical sensors configured to output biomechanical sensor data comprising temperature data output by one or more of the temperature transducers that is indicative of a body position of the employee, force data output by one or more of the force transducers that is indicative of the body position of the employee, and image data output by one or more of the cameras that comprises three-dimensional images that are indicative of the body position and eye movement of the employee;

a database in communication with the communications network and storing employee health information associated with one or more employees; and
a computer server in communication with the communication network, the computer server comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, an input/output (I/O) device interface and a processor, the I/O device interface connecting the computer server to the communications network, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a set of computer readable instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to cause the computer server to perform the steps of:
collecting, via the communications network, the biometric sensor data output by the set of biometric sensors and the biomechanical data output by the set of biomechanical sensors;
determining a health profile for the employee using the biometric sensor data and the biomechanical sensor data collected, the health profile for the employee comprising health characteristics, health conditions, health risks and health plans for the employee determined using the biometric sensor data and the biomechanical sensor data collected;
comparing one or more of the health characteristics, the health conditions and the health risks for the employee to a corresponding predetermined threshold range for the one or more of the health characteristics, the health conditions and the health risks;
determining, based on the comparison, that at least one of the one or more of the health characteristics, the health conditions and the health risks determined for the employee are outside of the corresponding predetermined threshold range for the one or more of the health characteristics, the health conditions and the health risks;
updating the health information stored in the database to reflect the health profile for the employee;
serving, to the employee computer workstation, health profile content comprising an interactive health status avatar and an interactive health status dashboard for the employee, the interactive health status avatar comprising a graphical representation of a human body comprising one or more graphical alerts displayed on the graphical representation of the human body, the graphical alerts being displayed at locations on the representation of the human body that correspond to locations of the at least one of the one or more of the health characteristics, the health conditions and the health risks determined to be outside of the corresponding threshold range for the one or more health characteristics, the health conditions and the health risks,

wherein the employee computer workstation is configured to display, via the GUI, the interactive health status avatar comprising the graphical representation of a human body comprising the one or more graphical alerts displayed on the graphical representation of the human body, and
wherein the employee computer workstation is configured to display, via the GUI, the interactive health status dashboard for the employee in response to selection, by the employee, of the health status avatar displayed, wherein the interactive health status dashboard comprises an interactive health test element that is user selectable to initiate a health test of the employee, and
wherein the computer readable instructions are executable by the processor to further cause the computer server to perform the steps of:
initiating, in response to receiving an indication of a selection of the interactive health test element, a health test of the employee, the health test of the employee comprising:
collecting, via the communications network, updated biometric sensor data output by the set of biometric sensors and updated biomechanical data output by the set of biomechanical sensors;
determining, using the updated biometric sensor data and the updated biomechanical sensor data collected, an updated health profile for the employee comprising updated health characteristics, updated health conditions, updated health risks and updated health plans for the employee that correspond to the at least one of the one or more of the health characteristics, the health conditions and the health risks for the employee determined to be outside of the corresponding predetermined threshold range; and
generating an updated health report corresponding to the updated health profile for the employee; and

serving, to the employee computer workstation, updated health profile content comprising the updated health report,
wherein the employee computer workstation is configured to display, via the GUI, the updated health profile content.

2. A system according to claim 1 , wherein the health profile content comprises a textual description of the at least one of the health characteristics, the health conditions, the health risks, and the health plans of the health profile for the employee, and wherein the health profile content comprises an avatar comprising an animated character configured to verbally communicate the at least one of the health characteristics, the health conditions, the health risks, and the health plans of the health profile for the employee such that the user is provided a display of a textual description of the at least one of the health characteristics, the health conditions, the health risks, and the health plans of the health profile for the employee accompanied by a verbal recitation, by the avatar, of the at least one of the health characteristics, the health conditions, the health risks, and the he

Assignees

• Horseman Samantha J
• Saudi Arabian Oil Co

Inventors

• Horseman Samantha J

Classifications

• A61B5/0537

  Measuring body composition by impedance, e.g. tissue hydration or fat content · CPC title

• G16H15/00

  ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof · CPC title

• A61B5/4872

  Body fat · CPC title

• A61B5/0002

  Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network (endoradiosondes A61B5/07) · CPC title

• A61B5/021

  Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels · CPC title