Tool employing dynamic competition levels for improved performance

摘要

A dynamic competition tool varies the competition level that one or more competing users experience while working to reach a goal or objective. The dynamic competition tool receives performance information from each of a number of activity stations with which respective users may interact to achieve a goal. The dynamic competition tool commands a user interactive device within an activity station to vary the level of difficulty experienced by the user of the interactive device as that user progresses toward the goal.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
providing a plurality of activity stations to a plurality of users, wherein each user interacts with a respective activity station in pursuit of an end goal, wherein each activity station includes a client information handling system (IHS) and a display coupled thereto, thus providing a plurality of client IHSs; receiving, by a dynamic competition management tool in a server IHS, end goal information that defines the end goal, the server IHS being coupled to the plurality of client IHSs via a communication network therebetween; sensing, by each activity station, performance information of the respective user of the activity station in pursuit of the end goal, thus providing sensed performance information; receiving, by the dynamic competition management tool, sensed performance information from each of the activity stations; sending, by the dynamic competition management tool, a command to a user interactive device in a particular activity station to vary a level of difficulty that the user of the particular activity station experiences as the user of the particular activity station progresses toward the end goal; receiving, by the dynamic competition management tool, intermediate goal information that defines an intermediate goal between a start point and the end goal, a path being defined between the start point and the intermediate goal; receiving, by the dynamic competition management tool, sub-path information that defines a first sub-path between the intermediate goal and the end goal, the sub-path information further defining a second sub-path between the intermediate goal and the end goal; determining, by the dynamic competition management tool, from the sensed performance information a particular user to first reach the intermediate goal on the path; determining, by the dynamic competition management tool, from the sensed information relative positions of the other users on the path relative to the particular user; sending, by the dynamic competition management tool, a command to display a position of the particular user reaching the intermediate goal relative to the other users.