摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately estimate a user's confusion by presuming the degree of confusion for a detected pattern of characteristic quantity as the degree of confusion of the user. <P>SOLUTION: Equipment internal characteristic quantity in an operation showing a user's confusing state, with respect to input information in operation of a car navigation device by the user and equipment internal state change according to the input information, and a duration of the user's confusing state shown by the equipment internal characteristic quantity in this operation; and a user's characteristic quantity in the operation showing the user's confusing state, with respect to the user's operation and expression before and during operation of the car navigation device, and a duration of the user's confusing state shown by the user's characteristic quantity in this operation are detected (S102). Based on detected sets of characteristic quantity and duration and the content of a confusion estimation database, the degree of confusion for a pattern of the detected sets of characteristic quantity and duration is presumed as the degree of confusion of the user (S104-S112). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT</p> |