Apple has been granted a patent for “User Comfort Monitoring and Notification.” Interestingly, the tech giant wants its device to be able to tell if content being viewed on one of its devices is distressing a user — and respond accordingly.
About the patent
The patent generally relates to displaying content on electronic devices, and in particular, to systems, methods, and devices for assessing the comfort state of users viewing content displayed on electronic devices. In the patent Apple says a user’s comfort state while viewing content on an electronic device can have a significant effect on the user’s experience.
For example, a user may experience an increase or a decrease in comfort state while using a head-mounted device (HMD) in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment, such as watching entertaining content or interacting with other users. Improved techniques for assessing the comfort state of a user viewing and interacting with content may enhance the user’s enjoyment of the content.
Per Apple’s patent, based on determining the user’s comfort state, content creators and display systems may be able to provide better and more tailored user experiences.
Summary of the patent
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent: “Some implementations disclosed herein present multimedia content to a user, identify a comfort state of the user (e.g., happy, unhappy, distressed, etc.) based on body data of the user (e.g., facial expressions, hand movements, physiological data, etc.), and update the multimedia content based on the identified comfort state.”
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