Patent ID: 7048544

Claim:
A system for developing interpersonal skills through an interview comprising questions by a student and responses by a simulated subject, said system comprising: means for computing; means for viewing; means for entering information; wherein the means for computing the means for viewing, and the means for entering information are operatively connected together; and means for storing a program in the means for computing, the means for storing comprising; means for quantifying emotional values allocated to rapport states of the simulated subject; and means for computing a stimulus value, the student's questions acting as stimuli to affect the flow of emotional values between the rapport states and thereby affecting the response by the simulated subject, wherein said means for computing a stimulus value includes employing the algorithm: S r =0.8 [memory*S r-1 +(1-memory)*S q ]0.2 (average rapport value) where S r-1 is the stimulus before the last rapport value, and S q is the average rapport value of all previous rapport values and the current rapport value for computing the stimulus value S r .