Patent ID: 8214228
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. An interactive substance use surveillance system comprising: a memory; a computer processor operatively coupled to the memory; a computer readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the computer processor causes the computer processor to provide a self-administered virtual interview, the self-administered virtual interview being formed of multimedia and interactive media, and having a series of different sections and a respective transition scene between each pair of sections in the series, different pairs of sections having different respective transition scenes, and different sections having different respective actors, each of the different sections of the virtual interview having a respective introduction scene in which an audio and visual recording of a respective actor announces to a respondent that questions about to be asked during the section are on a particular subject matter, different sections employing audio and visual recordings of the different actors; each section of the virtual interview presenting its respective introduction scene followed by: i) visually and audibly presenting questions to the respondent in both text and audio, the questions being audibly presented by an audio recording of the corresponding actor of the section reciting the questions, ii) highlighting selectable responses to the questions while the computer processor audibly presents the responses to the respondent for the respondent to choose, the responses being audibly presented by an audio recording of the corresponding actor of the section reciting the responses; in a subject transition scene between a respective pair of sections in the series, providing to the respondent an audio and visual recording of an actor different from the actors of the different sections, the subject transition scene providing to the respondent a transition from one section of the respective pair to a next section of the pair after the respondent completes the one section of the pair in the virtual interview, the virtual interview being configured with consistency checks and using (a) the different transition scenes transitioning through the different pairs of sections and (b) the audio and visual recordings of different actors across the different sections and different transition scenes in a manner enabling self-administration of the virtual interview through to completion of the virtual interview, the virtual interview preventing against input of inconsistent information as responses by the respondent; and a computer-based data collector in electronic communication with the computer readable medium and configured to receive responses chosen by the respondent in the self-administered virtual interview, the data collector receiving the respondent chosen responses immediately after the self-administered virtual interview ends and analyzing the respondent chosen responses, the analyzing forming current substance use data, the data collector allowing access to the current substance use data by third parties, and wherein the data collector is coupled to receive the respondent chosen responses in a manner enabling delay-free, continuous feed of the respondent responses.