METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LEARNING AND COGNITIVE TRAINING IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A system and method implemented as computer-based, computer-executable instructions employing a computation engine with digital storage provide a virtual environment with personalized user profiles specifically adapted to cognitive abilities of the user to train the user for specified tasks, herein called microtasks. The set of microtasks include achievement criteria. The virtual environment is controlled through an engine that automatically adapts the set of user-profile-specific microtasks to achieve a set of learning goals. The engine may calculate and/or measure a set of qualities associated with one or more sub-profiles associated with a given user based on game-type performance by that user either in isolation or among a group of users. Sub-profiles may include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: a personality profile, a neural link profile, and/or a motivation profile.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing as a computer machine a computation engine and digital memory for storing information, receiving programming material, and executing computer instructions for interacting with a user according to a theme; providing a user profile for each user, the user profile comprising storable information about a user, the user profile being interactively revisable; providing as a first tier in the computer machine a virtual environment in accordance with the theme of the virtual environment; providing as a second tier a plurality of activities within a realm of the virtual environment; providing as a third tier a plurality of microtasks required of the user suited to the user profile; causing the computation engine to present to the user a selection of the plurality of microtasks in at least one activity in the virtual environment through a user interface; receiving responses from the user through the user interface in response to the microtasks; and adapting the user profile to the learning level of the user in response to user execution of the microtasks.