WO2016140589A1

WO2016140589A1 - Online-accessed psychometric system

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Publication number: WO2016140589A1
Application number: PCT/RO2015/000006
Authority: WO
Inventors: Dumitru GRIGORE
Original assignee: Psychometric Systems S.A.
Priority date: 2015-03-02
Filing date: 2015-03-11
Publication date: 2016-09-09
Also published as: EP3264978A1; RO131376A2

Abstract

The invention refers to an online-accessed psychometric system, which realizes the primary data acquisition with an electronic scanning device. The data are processed based on a method for rapid determination of a set of psychological indicators, by means of a server application. The electronic scanning device, according to the invention, comprises a frequency divider (1), a stepped signal generator (2), two access signal blocks (3s and 3d), two sensors grids (4), two analogue/digital converters (5D and 5S) which leads the transformed signals towards inputs (CHI and CH2) of the embedded mini-computer (6) and a user-interface (7). The invention also provides a method for rapid probing of the cerebral functions, by identifying a set of variables able to supply a set of objective psychological indicators, using the device described.

Description

Title of Invention: Online-accessed

psychometric system

[1] The invention refers to an online-accessed psychometric system, for rapid determination of a set of psychological indicators.

Technical Field

[2] The system is intended to various uses, for example:

• in psychological practice, for vocational and aptitudinal assessment,

• within HR companies, for the identification of the inter-relational compatibilities;

• within security and protection companies, for initial and periodical assessment of performance parameters and indicators of the employed personnel;

• within companies, associations and professional groups, for the assessment of cohesion and inter-relational compatibility;

• within sport clubs, for daily follow-up of athletic performance indicators;

• within the air traffic control centers, in order to monitor the psycho-physiological condition of human operators;

• within educational institutions and events, in order to monitor the attention span of the audience, during the teaching-learning process;

• in companies with high risk activities, in order to monitor the vigil condition of workers. Background Art

[3] A series of methods and devices of direct measurement emphasize certain psycho-physiological indicators that can be interpreted to determine a psychological profile, based on the principle of the interference between electro-dermal type neuro-signals and certain psychological aspects. In that case, the neuro-signals are picked by using two electrodes subjected to a very small difference of electrical potential, between which there is established a measurable electrical current and the characterized measurements are the tonic and phasic conductance. SCL (Skin Conductance Level) represents the tonic or basal skin conductance, a level of conductance manifested in the absence of any external stimulus. SCL is expressed in micro Siemens and generally falls in the range of 10 - 50 micro Siemens. The phasic conductance SCR (Skin Conductance Response) arises in the presence of an external stimulus (visual, auditory, tactile etc.) and represents an increase of the skin conductance, which can take up to 10-20 seconds, followed by a return to SCL. In the literature (Edelberg R., Biopotentials from the skin surface: The hydration effect, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 148, February 1968) it is stated that these responses, SCR or GSR (Galvanic Skin Response) can also occur spontaneously, in the absence of any external stimulus, with a frequency of 1-3/min, noting that there are so called electro dermally unstable people, with a high frequency of SCR and a slow adaptation to simple stimulus repetition as well as and electro dermally stable people, with rare spontaneous reactions and rapid habituation. These differences are considered to be correlated with a number of psycho-physiological variables, epidermal instability and stability representing the fundamental differences in the characteristics of individuals.

[4] The terminology used in the electro dermal activity technique determines that for a SCR signal, the following parameters can be registered: amplitude (expressed in micro Siemens), latency, duration of the conductance increase after stimulus being applied and half-return time to SCL. The amplitude is given by the difference between the maximum level of SCR and the SCL level, from the moment the external stimulus is applied. The latency (about 3 seconds) is the time between stimulus being applied and the moment the SCR appears. The duration of the conductance increase is the time of running the ascendant slope up to the maximum SCR (1-3 seconds). Half-return time is recorded once SCR has achieved the maximum level of 50% of the amplitude (2-10 seconds).

[5] According to the Edelberg exocrine model, one of the most accepted theoretical models of the skin conductance, the phase modifications of the skin conductance appear when the skin glands are full, and the skin conductance returns to the basal values when this moisture is reabsorbed by the glands. In this model, the exocrine glands represent resistances. The conductance increases (the resistance decreases) when these glands are full. The amplitude of the conductance modification derives from the quantity of solution contained by glands, and also by the number of the exocrine glands simultaneously activated. The activation of the exocrine glands is neural regulated, being controlled by the cerebral trunk. It belongs to the electro-dermal activity being a projection of the action of the reticular formation of the cerebral trunk, of the hypothalamus, of the limbic system and of the motor cortex. It is also known that the electric activity of the skin is correlated to the blood flow in the peripheral zones, directly depending on the heartbeat.

[6] There are known different devices and equipment associated to methods based on the electro- dermal activity and the correspondence between the measurement points situated at the areas of palms extremities and psycho-physiological variables, upon which:

- is measured the psycho-galvanic reflex (patent application US3841316A);

- is assessed the psycho-physiological condition of a person (patent application US6067468A);

- is measured the aura of the human body (patent US6746397B); - the energetic centers and the aura of the human body are viewed, using a multimedia interactively computer-assisted system with bio reaction (patent application US5720619A).

[7] The disadvantages of these devices, devices and associated methods are either their complexity and size, or the limited destination of the application of the method or use of devices, supplying insufficient data to outline a psychological profile.

[8] Another equipment and method known, based on electro dermal activity and projective correspondence between the measuring points, located on the extremities of palms areas and a set of psycho-physiological functions, are described in the patent R0127615B, entitled Electronic equipment and method for the quick assessment of psychological profile. Unlike other devices and methods, this system allows for a rapid psychological profile assessment, consisting of indicators of cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, vocation, temperament and behavioral style, motivation, abilities, skills, professional compatibility and activity compatibility.

[9] The disadvantages of using this system for rapid assessment of the psychological profile are:

the limitation to a number of pre-set constructs;

the lack of online access to a database fit for the processing of a more generous set of psychological indicators severely limits both the future development, and the interconnection with other psychological assessment systems.

Summary of Invention

[10] The object of this invention is to provide an online-accessed psychometric system, in order to compose the constructs of a psychological profile of required descriptive variants of numerical or nominal scales.

Technical Problem

[11] The technical problem is that the users lack the possibility to customize the set of psychological indicators needed to adapt a psychological profile to the measurement requirements.

Solution to Problem

[12] The online-accessed psychometric system, according to the invention, solves the technical problem by that it obtains data acquisition with an electronic scanning device, the obtained data are processed based on a method for rapid determination of a set of psychological indicators, by means of a server application comprising the following modules: a module dedicated to the management and remote control of the electronic scanning device; a module which ensures the data processing service, by processing the scanned data according to a specific algorithm, the module having its own database; a server module, with an interface for managing the system by operations of connection, identification and visualization of the assessed examinee, registering the examinee, respectively the scanning starting; a module responsible for the processing services control, namely the scanning command, the scanning processing command, the reports generation command; a module for controlling a data interrogation service, which returns the history of scanning's and reports; a module which ensures the account/payment service and checking the account balance, having its own database for the account and payment management.

[13] The electronic scanning device, according to the invention, solves the technical problem by that it comprises a frequency divider, made of two cascaded 14 bits-asynchronous binary counters with oscillator, the oscillator of the first counter is piloted with a quartz of which oscillation frequency is 3MHz and from which a clock frequency Fo = 11,44 Hz is supplied, a stepped signal generator, conceived on the structure of a DAC (Digital/Analogue Converter) which comprises two shift registers with four states each, with serial input and parallel output. The signal generator uses the clock frequency Fo, generates the stepped signal and distributes it to two signal multi-access blocks, each made on the structure of two eight-channels multiplexers, simultaneously controlled in 3 bits by the cascaded frequency divider, with a frequency of Fi = 1,43 Hz. The device also comprises sensors grids to be placed in contact with epidermis. The frequency divider allocates a number of addresses towards an embedded mini-computer and towards the signal multi-access blocks, as each address opens, simultaneously and synchronously with the embedded mini-computer, at the level of signal multi-access blocks, a signal separation pathway towards a resistance placed at the supply power and a group of seven pathways towards the measurement areas disposed on the sensors grids. Also, a voltage exciting signal is guided towards the measurement areas, signal obtained from each outputs of the two integrated areas of the signal generator. After opening of the measurement pathways, the voltage exciting signals constitutes themselves into response signals, being also guided towards two ADC (Analogue/Digital Converter) converters, which convert them and guide them to the inputs of the embedded mini-computer. The mini-computer is programmed to record and to preliminary process the acquisition data and also do the reading and the storing of the voltage values of those signals into a data acquisition stack. The stack is further sent online toward a dedicated server, with which communicates via a user-interface, by means of a data cable, respectively a wireless online connection. Finally, the device records and stores the values of the skin conductance variations from an examinee's palms, expressed in corresponding voltage values, according to the relation U = l/G, provided the current remains constant along the entire measure chain, using a cycle rate frequency Fe = 0,18 Hz or a scanning time Tc = 5,6 sec/cycle and performs a a total number Ntc = 45 cycles for a complete scanning.

[14] The method for rapid online determination of a set of psychological indicators set, according to the invention, ensures a projective probing of the cerebral functions, identifying a set of variables able to provide a set of objective psychological indicators, by means of the above-mentioned electronic device performing a number of 45 queries of the measurement areas, by applying on skin of an exciting signal formed as a stepped voltage and simultaneously recording the response signals for every query cycle, for every channel, into a set of acquisition data in the form of a file. The obtained data are processed in order to identify the aperture level Cx of each energy center, respectively with the afferent coherence level Fy. The set of data is associated with the examinee's identity, by adding the personal data, in order to be further encrypted, as to form a data acquisition stack to be sent to a server. The data acquisition stack does not disclosure the examinee identity, but contains all the intermediary parameters needed to raise a psychological profile, under the form:

encrypting code

[15] By means of the acquisition data stack, it is calculated the value of indicators Ipxy with psychological significance, meaning the aperture and coherence of the energetic center out of which it has been identified, expressing and representing, in a projective manner, the activity level of the cognitive, affective or volitional function. By means of the indicators with psychological significance a programmable platform is being performed, through which the user can customize, via the user- interface, in addition to the pre-set constructs, any other psychological constructs.

Advantageous Effects of Invention

[16] The invention has the following advantageous effects:

it is an open, flexible and efficient system, within which, by selecting indicators in a preferential manner, a number of C₆₂ ⁵ constructs of psychological profile can be customized.

also, the specificities of a number of 24 professional themes can be customized out of the maximum of 40⁸ and 12 themes of activity profile out of the maximum of 7⁸, as a special facility which makes it possible that every activity domain to be characterized and investigated with high efficiency;

ensures a high level of data security, by addressing a cloud computing solution, along with an unitary maintenance and new software facilities implementation;

improves the validity and accuracy of the obtained psychological indicators, by means of a high level of the statistics of the acquisition data;

ensures a very short time of generating the reports;

has a great flexibility, as far as the future development of the system and its interconnection with other systems of psychological assessment is concerned.

Brief Description of Drawings

[17] The following drawings illustrate the system, according to the invention. Fig.l

[18][Fig.l] The block diagram of the electronic scanning equipment used by the system, according to the invention; Fig.2

[19][Fig.2] The diagram of state of excitement and response signals; Fig.3

[20][Fig.3]The block diagram of the server application used by the system; Fig.4

[21][Fig.4]The flow chart of the acquisition and formatting of primary data; Fig.5

[22][Fig.5]The flow chart of the method of rapid determination of a set of psychological indicators; Fig.6

[23] [Fig.6] A sensor on ring support; Fig.7

[24][Fig.7] A variant of the system, intended to monitor the attention; Fig.8

[25][Fig.8] A sensor on bracelet support; Fig.9

[26][Fig.9] Another variant of the system, intended to monitor the vigil condition; Fig.10

[27][Fig.lO] The block diagram of the system variant from fig. 9. Description of Embodiments

[28] Fig. 1 represents the block diagram of the electronic scanning device, according to the invention.

The device implements the in-phase neuro-stimulation of epidermis and comprises a frequency divider 1, a stepped signal generator 2, two signal multi-access blocks 3s and 3d, a silver sensor grid 4, two analogue-digital converters, 5D and 5S and an embedded mini-computer 6, the whole assembly having a single power supply (not presented here). [29] In order to determine the working frequencies for which the in-phase neuro-stimulation of epidermis is likely to occur, it has been taken into consideration the fact that, according to the electro dermal activity theory, the in-phase conductance SCR arises in the presence of an external stimulus (visual, auditory, tactile etc.) and represents an increase of the skin conductance, which can take up to 10-20 seconds, followed by a return to the tonic conductance SCL, the temporal sequences of GSR phenomenon being: the latency - T_LAT - about 3 seconds; the conductance growth duration - T_C0ND - between 1 and 3 seconds; the half-return time - between 2 and 10 seconds; so, all these sequences last from the stimulus occurrence to the half-return time, between minimum 6 seconds up to 16 seconds. Related to those above mentioned, the in-phase epidermal neuro- stimulation presumes, then, the electrical stimulation of the skin, namely keeping it into a state of excitement over a period of time calibrated by the in-phase conductance plateau.

[30] On the other hand, the heart beats with a rhythm situated between a normal of 70 and 100 beats per minute, representing an average number of Nmb = 85 beats per minute, the length of a heart rate being an average of Tpc = 0.7 seconds. In order to intercept at least one heartbeat, for one stepped signal impulse sent toward the measure zone, it is mandatory that the impulse duration, Ti, to be bigger or at least equal to the duration of the heartbeat. Still, the excessive increase in the pulse duration can lead to a decrease in the number of readings, respectively the decrease of the measurement resolution, reason for which, according to the invention, has been adopted the condition Ti = Tpc, respectively Ti = 0.7 seconds. This condition has imposed the use of a frequency of eight steps format for the signal provided by the generator 2, with a value deduced with the formula Fi =1/Ti, resulting Fi = 1,43 Hz. From Fi, the clock frequency for the eight status signal generator is deduced, Fo, based on the formula Fo = 8Fi, resulting Fo = 11,44Hz. Every stepped pulse is to be guided toward the two signal access blocks 3s and 3d with eight channels, the blocks being controlled by the frequency divider 1 via the addresses AO, Al, A2 with the frequency Fi - 1,43 Hz. At the level of those two signal multi-access blocks 3s and 3d with eight channels there takes place the sampling in measurement cycles, the sampling frequency in cycles being Fe = Fi/8, resulting Fe = 0,18 Hz, or Tc = 5,6 seconds/cycle.

[31] Given that the total scanning cycle takes Ttc = 5,6 seconds (a time very close to the minimum of the duration of a stimulated electro dermal signal Tsfm ~ 6 seconds) and when the maximal existence time for this signal is over, Tsfm ~ 16 seconds, a number of Nc ~ Tsfm/Tc resulting Nc ~ 2.9 cycles have been applied upon the epidermis, namely the measurement areas, for one electro- dermal stimulated signal. The in-phase neuro-stimulation of the skin can capture, by psycho-physiological inference, events whose projections as electrical signals are recorded after the latency time of 3 seconds, until reaching the maximum of conductance time, up to additional 3 seconds, even from the first scan cycle, T_LAT ~ 3 s < Tc < T_C0ND ~ 6 S, which gives the accuracy of the process, while the stimulating signal has a stepped frequency comparable to the pulse wave, so the neuro-stimulation being applied with a probability between PI ~ T_LAT/Tc, resulting Pi ~ 54% and P₂ ~ T_C0ND/TC, resulting P₂ ~ 100%. In other words, the probability for the neuro-stimulation to capture an inferential event until reaching the maximum conductance, within a single measuring cycle, is between 54% and 100%, when the blood flow to the hands extremities is maximal, ensuring the maintaining of the skin in a state of excitement within a time calibrated on the in-phase conductance plateau by the condition: Tc < Tsfm.

[32] Given the fact that certain persons are electro-dermally unstable, having a high frequency of SCR and a slow adaptation to the simple stimulus repetition, in order to do a scanning as accurate as possible, the scanning device, according to the invention, shall perform a total number Ntc = 45 cycles during a full reading.

[33] The frequency divider 1 is obtained by using two asynchronous binary counters of 14 bits with oscillator, placed in cascade. The oscillator of the first counter is piloted with quartz of which oscillation frequency is 3 MHz The clock frequency Fo = 11,44 Hz is obtained by a division of the 18 order, respectively of 2¹⁸ = 262.144 times from the basic frequency of the oscillator.

[34] The stepped signal generator 2 is conceived upon the structure of a digital/analogue converter and consists of two shift registers with four states, with serial input and parallel output, four integrated areas with eight Darlington transistor ports with commune transmitter and two voltage divider networks corresponding to each port areas, achieved with low power resistances. The shift registers are alternately charged, with impulses starting from the frequency Fo = 11,44 Hz, so that after the charge of the eighth impulse, this resets the registers cascade, preparing it for a new charge. The parallel outputs of the registers send the impulses sequence from the two integrated areas with Darlington transistors ports towards the voltage divider network of each area, each signal going through a resistance till a common point, separated by the mass with another resistance, where the currents discharged by the Darlington ports sum up, thus obtaining a signal consisting of stepped voltage levels whose measured values are presented in the Table 1. The signals of voltage levels obtained this way are transmitted to the signal access blocks 3s and 3d and to the two analogue- digital converters, 5D and 5S, which lead the transformed signals to the inputs CHI and CH2 of the embedded mini-computer 6, where the response signals are recorded following the opening of the measurement pathways and forming of the useful signal.

Table 1

[35] The signal access blocks 3s and 3d are configured on a structure with two multiplexers with eight channels, simultaneously controlled in three bits by the cascade-connected frequency divider 1 via the addresses AO, Al, A2. The first seven binary sequences simultaneously open two groups of seven channels each, selectable with the frequency pulse Fi = 1,43 Hz supplied by the signal generator 2, by the means of the two multiplexers, placed within each block 3s or 3d of signal access toward the measurement zones of sensor grids 4. The eighth sequence 1, 1, 1 simultaneously activates the eighth channel, by which the common input of a multiplexor, respectively the inputs of converters 5D and 5S, are placed in state <1 logic>, by one resistance connected to the supply voltage +Vcc. This status is registered as a separator impulse for the set of seven useful signals, intercepted via the two measurement pathways by the converters 5D and 5S, which are able to register the conductance variations as correspondent variations of voltage level, during a number of measurement cycles and to provide them to the embedded mini-computer 6, via the inputs CHI and CH2. In order to identify the measurement zone, the embedded mini-computer 6 is synchronized with the control addresses AO, Al, A2 of the signal access blocks 3s and 3d, supplied by the frequency divider.

[36] In the embodiment showed in the Fig. 1, the sensor grids 4 contain a number of 40 metallic sensors, grouped in seven lines of measurement, disposed on the upper housing of the electronic device, according to the anatomical form of palms. The disposal respects the correspondence rule between centers and measurement points, as follows: the first center toward the palm bottom; the second center toward the thumb; the third center toward the middle finger; the fourth center toward pinkie; the fifth center toward the fore finger; the sixth center toward the ring finger; the seven center toward the center of the palm.

[37] The embedded mini-computer 6 is programmed, on a side, to register, to perform a preliminary processing of the acquisition data, and to store the calculated values into an intermediary data file, and on the other side, to be able to connect to the user-interface 7, in order to perform the initial settings, via a data cable, for example a LAN cable, respectively to be able to connect wireless online to the server which contains the acquisition data processing module.

[38] After initiating the scanning cycle, at the level of the generator 2, two identical signals are formed, which are sent via the convertors 5D and 5S towards the two inputs of the embedded minicomputer 6. Those signals are also guided to the commune inputs of the signal access blocks 3s and 3d, which simultaneously open the measurement pathways, selectable with the frequency impulse Fi = 1,43Hz, toward the sensor grids 4, from where are intercepted the skin conductance variations from the palms placed over the silver sensors. The conductance variations are processed by the converters 5D and 5S, viewed and registered as correspondent voltage variations, according to the relation: conductance G = 1/R; resistance of the epidermis R = U/l, U is the applied voltage, respectively G = l/U. In this way, the low values of the measured voltage reveal a high conductance of the epidermis and the high voltage values reveal a low conductance of the epidermis, provided the voltage remain constant along the entire measurement chain. The form of the excitation and response signals at the two mentioned inputs are presented in the Fig. 2.

[39] The scanning device, according to the invention, has the following advantages:

• it measures electro dermal parameters within minutes, having the possibility of accessing the server application from any device connected to the Internet, i.e. desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile device etc.; • it is autonomous, being useful for scanning even though the Internet connection is off, because the data acquisition stack is checked, validated, stored and prepared to be sent to the server application after the online reconnection;

• it offers to the user the analysis of the variability rate of the acquired signal level, so as, even for a sufficiently small variation of the entire set of signals, the scanning session to be stopped before reaching the maximal time allocated for reading cycles;

• it takes on the electro dermal information with a very low working frequency, fact which eliminates any possible interference with a nearby source of radio electrical signal.

[40]The Fig. 3 shows the block diagram of the system according to the invention. The system, in the local application, contains the electronic scanning device and the embedded mini-computer 6, connected for the initial settings to the user-interface 7 via a data cable, for example a LAN cable.

[41]The server application within the system contains the following modules:

• a device management module DMS, dedicated to the management and remote control of the electronic scanning device;

• a data processing module DPS, which runs an algorithm for the data stack and has its own

database DB-PR;

• a server module FES, with an interface for the management of the system, managing operations as connecting, identifying, visualizing, registering the examinee or starting the scanning, respectively;

• a service processing module OPS, giving commands of scanning, scanning processing, reports generating etc.;

• a query module ODQS, controlling the query data services, which returns the history related to scanning and reports;

• an account/payment module APS, ensuring the checking of the account balance, with its own account database DB-AP.

[42] The device is initialized by starting a server DHCP installed on the embedded mini-computer 6, which assigns a local IP to the scanning device, the IP is communicated to the DMS module, for the unique authentication of the equipment. The DMS module, installed on the application server, answers by sending a software token, used for the entire live session. The scanning device sends keep-alive messages to the DMS module, which can respond with commands intelligible by the device, for example the command START_SCAN.

[43] The entire communication between the local and server application is ensured by means of the server module FES. The user authentication is made by the account/payment module APS, which task is to confirm the user identity and to ensure the software token, used during the entire live session, respectively to display the details related to the profile and information portfolio of the user, retained by signing-up into the own database DB-AP.

[44] Once the user authentication is over, the user-interface 7, installed on the user computer, allows the management of the data of the examinee, meaning: data adding or modifying, the initiation of scanning, viewing the scan reports and so on. Those capabilities are further described in detail.

[45] The adding of a new examinee is made by sending a request to the service processing module OPS, via the server module FES, request processed and further sent to the data processing module DPS, which encrypts the data and saves them in the database DB-PR, under an unique system identifier.

[46] The initialization of the scanning process is made under the same user-interface 7, which demands to the module DMS an unique identifier for the scanning of the examinee, by means of the different modules in this sequence: FES -> OPS -> DPS -> DMS. The module DMS sends to the scanning device this request, generated by the acquisition data program installed on the embedded mini-computer. During the entire scanning, the embedded mini-computer 6 sends information related to the scanning status, saved in the database DB-PR via the modules DMS and DPS. This information is used by the local application, as to ensure the process transparency or the display of the possible data acquisition errors, by accessing the module OQDS which reads and returns the scanning status from the database DB-PR. Once the scanning is over, the data are preliminary processed by the program installed on the embedded mini-computer 6, running the algorithm in the Fig. 4, after which are sent in order to be saved in the DB-PR database as the data acquisition stack. These initial data are further processed by the DPS module, running the algorithm presented in the Fig. 5, having as result a number of key indicators which are stored in the DB-PR database.

[47] The reports corresponding to the performed scanning are generated by sending a request to the module DPS, via the modules FES -> OPS, the module DPS reads the data from the database DB-PR and delivers a report. Prior to this, it is checked if the user has sufficient credit. If the user credit is not sufficient, the user is announced via the user-interface 7, in order to recharge the user account. The account is refilled through the module APS, by the usual procedure of online payment. After the processing data confirmation, the user can request the generation of the standard reports, included within the purchased package. If the user wants one psychological construct or more, besides the default ones, he/she can customize the programmable platform, with the help of the user-interface 7, within the credit limit, the reports of these constructs being provided by an identical procedure as to the standard reports.

[48] The history of the scanning and reports for an examinee is asked via the user-interface 7, whereby that examinee is selected and, via the module FES, the user and the encrypting code for the examinee identity are identified. This status is requested from the module DPS, generated by the server at the level of the module DPS, respectively from its own database DB-PR. [49] In the case the online connection is interrupted, the user connects the user-interface 7 with the electronic scanning device, using a data cable. As such, the user-interface 7 allows the examinee registering in the view of the assessment and the performing of the scanning. After the acquisition of data is finished, those data are preliminary processed and locally saved in the embedded minicomputer 6, having the possibility to be sent toward server after the online reconnection, in order to be processed, following the same processing data sequences.

[50]The method for the rapid determination of a set of psychological indicators, according to the invention, ensures a projective probing of the cerebral functions, by identifying a set of variables able to provide a set of objective psychological indicators, with the help of the already mentioned electronic scanning device.

[51]The method runs through the following steps:

• applying, at the level of the epidermis, of an exciting signal and simultaneously recording of the response signals, for every cycle of interrogation, in a number of 45 interrogations of the measurement areas;

• processing the acquisition data, in order to identify the aperture level of every energetic center Cx, respectively the afferent coherence level Fy;

• the processed data set is associated with the examinee identity, by attributing the personal data (as for example, the name, surname, birthday, gender and address, in order to be subjected to an encrypting process, so that to the server to be sent a data acquisition stack, of which content does not discloses the examinee identity, but contains all the needed intermediary parameters, under the form: encrypting code/C_Ms/ C,_s/ C_As/ C_Fs/ C_Cs/ C_Ps/ C_VS /F_Fs// F_Es/ F_Ms/ F_IS/C_Md/ C_ld/ C_Ad/ C_Fd/ Q_D/ C_pd/ C_vd/ F_Fd/ F_Ed/ F_Md/ F_|d;

• by means of the data acquisition stack, it is calculated the value of indicators Ipxy with psychological significance, meaning the aperture and coherence of the energetic center out of which they have been identified, expressing and projective representing the activity level of the cognitive, affective or volitional function;

• by means of those indicators l_pxy with psychological significance, transposed on the programmable platform, the user can customize, via the user-interface and in addition to the pre-set constructs, any other psychological construct CP1, CP2,..,CPn.

[52] Fig. 4 shows the diagram of the data acquisition step which, according to the invention, implies placing the both palms of the examinee upon the sensor grid of the scanning device and starting the scanning the reading sequence. A number of 45 interrogations of the measurement areas are performed by applying an exciting signal under the form of stepped voltage signal. Simultaneously, are recorded and stored the response signals of the skin conductance variation, as corresponding variations of voltage level on each interrogation cycle and for each channel, along with the exciting signal, into a file of input data report, with the possibility of viewing them on the computer, using data acquisition software. After performing of the scanning sequence, the input data report is subject to a comparison process that validates the format of the acquired data. Once the validation comes through, the data is filtered as to determine the signals with maxim voltage level corresponding to the minim levels of SCR and respectively SCL conductance, taken at the end of the interrogation of the measurement areas, according to the relation: U = l/G, where U is the applied voltage, G = 1/R is the epidermis conductance, the resistance of the epidermis is deduced from the law of Ohm, R = U/l, and I is the power considered constant along the measurement chain.

[53] The processing takes place as follows: after filtration, from the resulted data, for every hand, according to the invention, the apertures of the energetic centers Cx are determined, by identification of the maxim voltage level corresponding to the minimum level of conductance of the SCR response signal from all the interrogation cycles, for each center. The rule is that a high voltage level corresponding to a minimum level of conductance of the SCR response signal reflects a large aperture of the center, and a small level, reflects a small aperture. The variation of the aperture of the energetic center Cx is set between 0 and 100 units.

[54] Also, from the resulted data, there are determined the coherences Fy of the energetic centers, associated to the difference between the level of the voltage supply +Vcc and the maxim voltage level, corresponding to the minimum level of conductance of the SCL signal, measured at the end of the interrogation of the correspondence areas, according to the rule that a small value of that difference emphasizes a high coherence of that center and a big value represents a lower coherence. Likewise, the variation of the F coherence level is determined between 1 and 150 units and based on the measurement channel and their grouping on four levels, means the level coherence y = F, FF for the 1^st and 2^nd centers; the level coherence y = E, FE for the 3^rd and 4^th centers; the level coherence y = M, FM for the 5^th and 6^th centers and the level's coherence y = I, Fl for the 7^th center.

[55] Fig. 5 shows the diagram of the method, according to the invention. After the receiving the information acquired from the examinee, the module DPS of the application server reads the data acquisition stack and the information related to the centers coherence shall be used for identifying a scale parameter Isx, by means of a scale factor Fs and the width of an interval L_ix for each Cx parameter of aperture of energetic centers. The width of the interval Lix is calculated upon the relation

L

where 150 represents the upper end of the coherence scale and Fx is the value from scale corresponding to the coherence level of the center represented by the Cx parameter, for which the scale parameter is identified. The scale factor Fs, according to the invention, is calculated related to a scale of S = 190 units, in which are identified the useful parameters out of which the final psychological indicators are composed. It is given by the formula Fs = S/AF, where AF = 149, resulted from the difference between the scale ends of the coherence values, resulting Fs = 1.275. The final form of the scale parameter, according to the invention, is:

I_sx= 1.275 (150 - F_x)

[56] The scale parameter Isx and the parameter Cx are used for the determination of the values of the intermediary parameters, based on the formula:

where lix becomes the intermediary parameter corresponding to the parameter Cx. Also, the parameter Cx is used to assess the performance p, for which the passive potential Pp of the ensemble of energetic potentials is calculated, based on the relation:

which represents the arithmetic mean of the value of all the apertures of the energetic centers, also the active potential Pa, assessed according to the invention, as follows: for the 1^st and 2^nd centers, PaF= (Cl+C2)/2; for the 3^rd and 4^th centers, PaE= (C3+C4)/2; for the 5^th and 6^th centers, PaM= (C5+C6)/2; for the 7^th center, Pal= C7. The performance is assessed for each level y based on the relation:

[57] Using l_ix - the intermediary parameters and py - the performance, the useful parameters are

determined based on the relation:

[58] After the determination of the useful parameters, they are reported to a database containing all their possible significances, with which help, based on the function of the parameters Cx and based on the level type, an adequate identity is assigned to them. After the identity is assigned, these acquire a psychological signification Ipxy and are related to the value of the lower end scale, Vi = 75, based on the formula l_pxy=Vi + l_uxy. The value of the psychological indicator determined this way means the aperture and coherence of the energetic center from which it has been identified and expresses, according to the invention, the level of activity of the cognitive, affective and volitional function that represents the concerned energetic center, in a projective manner.

[59] With the help of these psychological indicators Ipxy a programmable platform is created, which offers to the user the possibility to customize any psychological construct CP1, CP2, CPn via the user- interface 7, after the model shown in the Table 2. Every construct is composed by selecting the desired psychological indicators and setting their desired value, upon one of the five scale zones. As following the scanning of the examinee, for each selected indicator it is calculated the percentage deviation from a scale mark, set according to the invention, following the rule: the lower the deviation is than the middle of the selected scale, the better the indicator of the scanned individual falls within the scale. The average deviation of all the selected indicators indicates the extent to which the examinee is to be found in the configured profile from the psychological construct. After the construct being created, this can be saved in the user-interface 7, so that, in addition to the preset constructs, the user should be able to use his/her own (customized) construct.

Table 2

[60] For example, it is detailed further the customizing of a construct.

[61] In the view of assessing the intelligence aspects, according to the invention, a pre-set psychological construct is created, in which are extracted from the psychological signification indicators those corresponding to the cognitive intelligence: general intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, practical intelligence, verbal intelligence, mathematical intelligence, intuition and clarity of reasoning, that are to be distributed on a scale with a length of S = 190 units, divided in five levels: very low, low, medium, high, very high level.

[62] A level PE-IQ of activity associated, in a projective manner, to the cognitive intelligence is assessed as arithmetic average of the values of distributed indicators and, according to the invention, represents the operationally level of the cognitive zone. At the same time, from the indicators with psychological signification are extracted the indicators corresponding to the emotional intelligence: emotional intelligence, introspective intelligence, relational emotional intelligence (empathic), self- image, interior comfort, integrative adaptability and stress reaction that are distributed on a scale with the length of S = 190 units, divided in five levels: very low, low, medium, high, very high level. A level PE-EQ of activity associated, in a projective manner, to the emotional intelligence is assessed as arithmetic average of the values of the distributed indicators and, according to the invention, represents the operationally level of the emotional area. [63] In order to assess the personality aspects, according to the invention, it has been realized a pre-set psychological construct, by which a relationship between a set of sixteen vocations VI V16, a set of eight behavioral styles SI,...., S8 and a set of four temperaments Tl, T2, T3, T4, based on the rules shown in the Table 2. la, lb, Oa, Ob, Da, Db, Ra and Rb are bipolar indicators of behavioral style, for which weights are assessed by extracting from the psychological significance indicators four sets of indicators, corresponding to the behavioral functions: comprehension, organization, decision and relationing. Their psychological signification is bipolar distributed by attributing a weight, so as:

• the comprehension always receives, as weight for the set of analyzed psychological indicators only one of the values la and lb, respectively practical or intuitive;

• the organization always receives, as weight for the set of analyzed psychological indicators only one of the values Oa and Ob, respectively precautious or spontaneous;

• the decision always receives, as weight for the set of analyzed psychological indicators only one of the values Da and Db, respectively affective or reflexive; and

• the relationing always receives, as weight for the set of analyzed psychological indicators, only one of the values Ra and Rb, respectively reserved or opened.

[64] In order to determine these weights, each set of indicators corresponding to the behavioral functions has been organized in two groups of indicators with antagonistic psychological significance. The value of a bipolar indicator is given by the arithmetic average of the value of the indicators corresponding to a sub-set. By comparison of the values of the pair of bipolar indicators of behavioral style, the biggest value is selected, value that constitutes the weight of the set of indicators corresponding to each behavioral function.

[65] For example, the decision receives a set of 4 indicators: 11,12, 13 and 14, where Da = (II + Ι4)/2 represents the weight of the affectivity and Db = (12 + Ι3)/2 represents the weight of the reflexivity. If the function MAX (Da, Db), identifies the biggest value for Db, than the decision is reflexive. If the biggest value identified is Da, than the decision is affective. In the same manner, the comprehension can be practical or intuitive, the organization can be precautious or spontaneous, and the relationing, reserved or opened.

[66] In order to determine the vocation, an ensemble of 16 weights Pvl, Pv2, Pvl6, corresponding to the 16 vocations is assessed. The assessment of these weights is done, according to the invention, by comparison of the related amounts achieved with the values of the bipolar indicators values of behavioral style, and identified according to the Table 4. The highest weight of these amounts is given by the function MAX (Pvl, Pv2, Pvl6). The vocation corresponding to this value represents the basic vocation of the examinee. [67]The behavioral styles SI S8 are distributed to each vocation, based on the correspondence presented in the Table 3, as two behavioral styles correspond to each vocation and two bipolar indicators of the 8's ensemble correspond to each behavioral style.

[68]The Tl, T2, T3, T4 tempers, each group's four vocations. The way of grouping is presented in the Table 3. In order to determine the temperament weight, sixteen weights Pvl, Pv2,..., Pvl6 corresponding to the sixteen vocations are being arranged. The temperamental type is identified for each vocation. From the analysis of the first five temperaments identified for the first five vocations, according to the invention, the behavioral weight is established as percentage.

[69]For exemplification, if Tl is identified three times and T3 is identified two times in the first five positions, when the weight of Tl is 60%, and the weight of T3 is 40%.

[70]ln order to determine the abilities and skills, a set of seven indicators is extracted, with significations related to abilities and skills, whose values are inserted in a level discriminator. The discriminator, according to the invention, sorts out all the indicators which values exceed the level set based on the formula MIN(lal, Ia2 , ... la7)+(MAX(lal, Ia2 , ... Ia7) - MIN(lal, Ia2 , ... la7))/2. After the identification of the most significant values, the information consists of a set of indicators of abilities and skills.

[71] For the identification of motivations, a set of seven indicators with significations is extracted, with signification related to motivations, whose values, as the previous situation, are inserted in a level discriminator. The discriminator, according to the invention, sorts out all the indicators which values exceed the level established based on the formula MIN (Iml, Im2 , ... Im7)+(MAX (Iml, Im2 , ... Im7) - MIN (Iml, Im2 , ... lm7))/2. After the identification of the most significant values, the information consists of a set of indicators of motivations.

[72]ln order to determine the profession compatible to the assessed examinee, a set of forty indicators is extracted from the indicators with psychological significance, whose values are Ipl, Ip2, Ip40 which, according to the invention, are according to the theme matrix placed in an eight steps scale, in which for each location is calculated the weight of the real value of each indicator, Pipx. The scale has a length calculated for all the indicators based on the formula L = MAX (Ipl, Ip2, ... , Ip40) - MIN(lpl, Ip2 , Ip40), and the ratio of the scale step rt, is deduced based on the formula rt = L/8. The weight of the real value of each indicator, P_pin is identified following the position of the value Ipi of the indicator on the position n on the scale. For example, if the position of the value Ipi is in the third step of the scale, n = 3, for the third location of the scale, P_pi3= Ipi ; for the fourth location, the weight is P_pi4= Ipi + rt; for the second location, the weight is P_pi2= Ipi - rt; for the first location, the weight is P_pil= Ipi - 2rt, respectively for the eighth location, the weight is P_pi8= Ipi + 5rt .

[73] A profession deviser is further used, which can contain twenty-four profession themes from the maximum of 40⁸ possible. The profession theme is devised, according to the invention, on the structure of an identical matrix as number of lines and columns, with the matrix of identification of the position weight on the above-mentioned scale. This way, each indicator with psychological signification receives a reference theme for its value. The reference theme is established by recording the digit 1 in the respective location from the theme matrix, meaning a reference point of maxim or minim for the value of the indicator. By comparing the theme matrix with the matrix of weights identification, according to the invention, all the locations in which the maximum or minimum theme have been recorded are identified, and the real values of the weights of those locations of the matrix of identification of the position weight on the scale are reproduced.

[74] For example, if the position of the value Ipi is in the third step of the scale, and the reference point from the reference theme is a maximum one, than the real value of the weight corresponding to the Ipi value indicator is the one marked on maximum, namely, the weight of the eighth location of the scale, respectively, Ppi8= Ipi + 5rt. The arithmetic average of all the weights, identified in this way by the matrix comparator, represents for each reference theme, the real time of mirroring the psychological signification indicators in the profession theme. The hierarchy of the twenty-four arithmetic averages (Ml, M2, ..., M24), corresponding to the scheduled themes, gives the compatibility with the profession for the maximum value. This way, the function MAX (Ml, M2, M24) indicates the most suitable profession for the examinee.

[75]ln a similar manner, in order to determine the profile of activity compatible to the examinee, a set of seven psychological significance indicators is extracted, whose values are Ipl, Ip2, ... Ip7, according to the invention, and placed in a matrix manner into an eight steps scale, in which, for each location is calculated the weight of the real value of each indicator Pipx. The scale has a length calculated for all the indicators based on the formula L = MAX(lpl, Ip2 , ... Ip7) - MIN(lpl, Ip2 , ... Ip7), and the ration of the scale step, rt, is deduced based on the formula rt = L/8. As in the previous case, the weight of the real value of each indicator, Ppin is identified following the position of the value Ipi of the indicator on the n position on the scale.

[76]ln a similar manner to the previous procedure, a deviser of themes of activity profile is used, as it contains twelve themes of activity profile from the maximum of 78 possible. The profession theme is devised, according to the invention, on the structure of an identical matrix as number of lines and columns, with the matrix of identification of the position weight on the above mentioned scale. This way, each indicator with psychological significance receives a reference theme for its value. The reference theme is established by recording the fig. 1 in the respective location from the theme matrix, meaning a reference point on any of the scale steps for the value of the indicator.

[77]By comparing the theme matrix to the matrix of weights identification, according to the invention, all the locations in which have been recorded the maximum or minimum reference themes and the real values of the weights of those locations of the matrix of identification of the position weight on the scale are reproduced.

[78] For example, if the position of the Ipi value is on the third step of the scale and the reference point of the reference theme is one situated on the fourth step, then the real value of the weight corresponding to the Ipi value indicator is given by the weight of the location situated on the fourth step, respectively Ppi4= Ipi + rt. The arithmetic average of all the weights identified this way by the matrix comparator represents for each reference theme, the real way of mirroring the psychological signification indicators in the activity profile theme. The hierarchy of the twelve arithmetic averages (Ml, M2,..., M12), corresponding to the scheduled themes, gives the compatibility with the activity profile for the maximum value. This way, the function MAX (Ml, M2, M12) indicates the most suitable profile for the examinee. An example is presented in the Table 5.

[79]ln the Table 6 there are presented the values assessed for twelve examinees, for which the real professional aspects have been also exposed.

[80]ln order to elaborate the final report of the psychological profile, according to the invention, a descriptive register of the indicators of psychological profile is used, containing all the formal and substance significations for each psychological indicator. The substance significations are expressed by a general description of the psychological indicator. This description can be found in the left side of the table of the final psychological report. The formal significations are described as attributes corresponding to the value determined by the assessment method. The description accompanies the indicator assessed in the structure of the presentation table of the final psychological report.

[81]To format the report sequence, the information is taken over from the descriptive register of the elements of psychological profile and is placed on a formatted structure together to the scale areas, properly assigning the substance and formal signification to the values determined for the assessed indicators. In this way, the report sequence contains a five areas calibrated scale: very low, low, medium, high, very high and the assessed indicator, placed on the scale, corresponding to its value, described both as substance and formal one. For example, the reports related to the activity levels PE-IQ and PE-EQ contain seven, respectively five report sequences, in which each intermediary indicator is generally and particularly described, in the scale sequence in which is distributed. At the same time, the report presents also the total value of each intelligence indicator.

[82]To assign the form and substance significations for vocation, the behavioral style, temperaments, skills, abilities, motivations, compatible profession and compatible activity profile, a register of correspondences is used.

[83] Both sequences of report, related to the structure of the levels PE- IQ and PE-EQ, the correspondences table and the intermediary report of the programmable construct form a qualitative report of the psychological profile, which, once generated on the server, can be archived, displayed or printed. A presentation example of the final personality report of the level of activity associated, in a projective manner, to the PE-IQ is presented in the Table 7.

Table 7

[84]Within a first system variant of the invention, by means of miniaturization of the electronic components of the scanning device, the device is practically embedded on a support glove-like, which contains the sensors grid, for each hand, as to the AC converter modules are placed at the level of each hand and communicate with an equivalent of the embedded mini-computer (under the form of a chip or micro-computer, for example) by means of a wireless connection (a solution adopted for monitoring distances up to 100m). For the optimal functioning, the interior cavities of the gloves are purged with an inert gas (for example argon), as to drain the excessive humidity. [85] By this configuration, using the same method of data processing, respectively server application, the set of the psychological indicators can be monitored in real time, namely the particular indicators for high risk activities (for example, controlling air traffic, flying a plain, handling a crane, driving a car).

[86]Fig. 6 and 7 illustrate a second system variant of the invention, configured as a system with reactive sensor for attention monitoring, comprising at least one sensor, a data acquisition unit and a radio connection (a solution adopted for monitoring distances longer than 100m). In particular, the sensor is incorporated into a ring structure, made of electro-insulating material, easy and comfortably wearable on the thumb of the left hand (see fig. 6). The reactive sensor has a small radio unit, being fed by an incorporated accumulator. The unit communicates to the data acquisition unit data about the electrical activity of the measurement area, namely about the integration level of it. The acquisition unit comprises, for example, a radio modules assembly with WSN transmission, installed depending on the number of the monitoring posts and a data acquisition module with twelve channels, inter-connected to the user-interface.

[87]The system is intended to the individual attention monitoring (for example, during courses, seminars, conferences, focus-groups etc.). In this way, a rapid, direct and objective feedback response can be obtained, related to the audience attention degree.

[88]The Fig. 8, 9 and 10 illustrate a third system variant of the invention, configured as a system with reactive sensor for the vigil condition monitoring, comprising at least one sensor, a data acquisition module and a radio connection, managed via a dispatch (a solution adopted in order to monitor distances longer than 100m). The dispatch takes the signals sent by a mobile unit, found in local connection with the sensor and sends them to the acquisition module via a fixed local unit.

[89]ln particular, the sensor is incorporated into the structure of a bracelet made of electro-insulating material, comfortably wearable around the left or right hand wrist. The reactive sensor communicates with the mobile unit, being fed by an incorporated accumulator. In this case, the AD converters are distributed depending on the number of the monitoring posts, along with the mobile units of the radio dispatch, of which units' useful signals ar multiplexed and sent via the fix unit of the radio dispatch to the data acquisition module and afterward to an embedded mini-computer.

[90]The system is intended to monitor the vigil condition of the personnel performing high risk activities.

It ensures also the comfortable use of a device by the monitored personnel, also the computer- assisted monitoring of the employees during the high risk activity, the employees to which the system can transmit preventing and warning signals.

[91]Depending upon the place where the monitoring is performed, the system can be:

- with local action (set within a factory, a control board, heavy equipment platforms etc.);

- with action in traffic (set on moving vehicles).

[92] It is understood that the hereby described preferred system embodiment, along with their variants, are not limitations of the invention materializing, but are given as for examples. Patent Literature

PTLl: R0127615B, Electronic equipment and method for the quick assessment of psychological profile PTL2: US3841316A

PTL2: US6067468A

PTL3: US6746397B

PTL4: US5720619A

Non Patent Literature

NPLl: Edelberg R., Biopotentials from the skin surface: The hydration effect, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 148, February 1968

Claims

[Claim 1] Electronic scanning device, intended to perform the data acquisition, which comprises a frequency divider (1) made by two asynchronous binary counters on 14 bits with oscillator, placed in cascade, the oscillator of the first counter being piloted by a quartz of which oscillation frequency is 3MHz, from which is obtained a clock frequency Fo = 11.44 Hz, a stepped signal generator (2) configured on the structure of a digital/analogue converter comprising two shift registers with four states, with serial input and parallel output and which uses the clock frequency, generates and supplies the stepped signal to two access signal blocks (3s and 3d), each of them (3s and 3d) being designed on the structure of two multiplexers with eight channels each, driven in three bits by the frequency divider (1) by a control impulse of a frequency Fi = 1.43 Hz, the device having also two sensors grids (4), characterized by that the frequency divider (1) allocates three addresses (AO, Al, A2) towards an embedded mini-computer (6) and toward the access signal blocks (3s and 3d), the addresses (AO, Al, A2) open, simultaneously and synchronously with the embedded mini-computer (6), at the level of the access signal blocks (3s and 3d), a signal separation path toward a resistance connected to a voltage supply (+Vcc) and a group of seven pathways toward the measurement placed on the sensor grids (4), toward which is guided a voltage exciting signal, obtained from one of the first outputs of the two integrated areas of the signal generator (2), signal which is set, after the opening of the measurement ways, as a response signal, being also guided toward two analogue/digital converters (5D and 5S) which leads the transformed signals towards inputs (CHI and CH2) of the embedded minicomputer (6), programmed to register and preliminary process the acquisition data, in order to set a data acquisition stack and to store the calculated values into a data file, then to send it to a dedicated server, with which communicates by means of a user-interface (7) through a data cable or a wireless online connection, so as finally to record and store the values of the skin conductance variations, values expressed as corresponding voltage levels, according to the relation U = l/G, while the current remains constant throughout the chain measuring, the device using a cycle sampling frequency Fe = Fi/8 and Fe = 0.18 Hz, respectively a scan time of Tc = 5.6 sec/cycle and performing a total of Ntc = 45 cycles to a complete reading.

[Claim 2] Electronic scanning device, according to the claim 1, characterized by that the embedded mini-computer (6) is programmed to monitor the variability rate of the acquired signal level, as such, for a sufficient small variation of the entire set of data, the scanning session to be stopped before the finalizing the maximal time allocated to the reading cycles.

[Claim 3] Electronic scanning device, according to the claim 1, characterized by that the sensor grids

(4) contains at least one sensor and their disposal can be adapted in order to take signals from various skin zones.

[Claim 4] Method for rapid on-line determination of a set of psychological indicators, which provides a projective probing of the cerebral functions, identifying a set of variables able to supply a set of objective psychological indicators, using the device described by claim 1, characterized by that it runs the following steps:

applying, at the level of the epidermis, an exciting signal and simultaneously recording of the response signals, for every cycle of interrogation, as a number of 45 interrogations of the measurement areas;

processing the acquisition data, in order to identify the aperture level of every energetic centre (Cx), respectively the afferent coherence level (Fy);

the processed data set is associated with the examinee identity, by attributing the personal data, in order to be subjected to an encrypting process, as such to the server to be sent a data acquisition stack, of which content does not discloses the examinee identity, but contains all the needed intermediary parameters, under the form: encrypting code/C_Ms/ C,_s/ C_As/ C_Fs/ C_Cs/ C_Ps/ C_VS /F_Fs// F_Es/ F_Ms/ F_IS/C_Md/ C_ld/ C_Ad/ C_Fd/ C _CD/ C_pd/ C_vd/ F_Fd/ F_Ed/ F_Md/ F_Id;

by means of the data acquisition stack, it is calculated the value of indicators (Ipxy) with psychological significance, meaning the aperture and coherence of the energetic center out of which they have been identified, expressing and representing the activity level of the cognitive, affective or volitional function;

by means of those indicators (Ipxy) with psychological significance, transposed on a programmable platform, the user can customize, via the user-interface (7) and in addition to the pre-set constructs, any other psychological construct (CP1, CP2,..,CPn).

[Claim 5] Method according to the claim 4, characterized by that, in order to elaborate the final report of the psychological profile, a descriptive register of the indicators of psychological construct is used, containing all the formal and substance significations for each psychological profile indicator, the substance significations are expressed by a general description of the psychological indicator and the formal significations are described as attributes corresponding to the determined value, the description accompanies the indicator assessed in the structure of the presentation table of the final psychological report, in which, to format the report sequence, the information is taken over from the descriptive register of the indicators of psychological construct and is placed on a formatted structure together to the scale areas, properly assigning the substantive and form signification to the values determined for the assessed indicators, by this way, the report sequence contains a five areas calibrated scale (very low, low, medium, high, very high) and the assessed indicator, placed on the scale, corresponding to its value, described both as substance and form one.

[Claim 6] Method according to the claim 4, characterized by that,

- a psychological construct (CPi) is composed by selecting the desired indicators and setting their desired value, upon one of the five scale zones;

- following the scanning of the examinee, for each selected indicator it is calculated the percentage deviation from a scale mark, the average deviation of all the selected indicators indicates the extent to which the scanned examinee is to be found in the configured profile from the psychological construct, - after the construct being created, this can be saved into the user-interface (7), so that, in addition to the pre-set constructs received for an assessment, the user should be able to use his/her own construct, prepared into an intermediary report of the customized construct,

- the intermediary report of the customized construct form a part of a final report of the psychological profile, which, once generated from the server, can be archived, displayed or printed.

[Claim 7] Online-accessed psychometric system, characterized by that it performs the data acquisition with the electronic scanning device from the claim 1, which data are to be processed according to the method for the rapid determination of set of psychological indicators from the claim 4, by means of a server application containing the following modules:

a device management module (DMS), dedicated to the management and remote control of the electronic scanning device;

a data processing module (DPS), which runs an algorithm for the data stack and has its own database (DB-PR);

a server module (FES), with an interface for the management of the system, managing operations as connecting, identifying, visualizing, registering the examinee or starting the scanning, respectively;

an operation processing module (OPS), giving commands of scanning, scanning processing, reports generating etc.;

a query module (ODQS), controlling the query data services, which returns the history related to scanning's and reports;

an account/payment module (APS), ensuring the checking of the account balance, with its own account database (DB-AP),

which system functions as follows:

- initializing the device is made by starting a server installed on the embedded minicomputer (6), which assigns a local IP to the scanning device, the IP is communicated to the device management module (DMS), for the unique authentication of the equipment, the module (DMS) answers by sending a software token, used for the entire live session and the scanning device sends "keep alive" messages to the module (DMS), which responds with commands intelligible by the device;

- the entire communication between the local and server application is ensured by means of the server module (FES), the user authentication is made by the account/payment module (APS), which task is to confirm the user identity and to ensure the software token, used during the entire alive session, respectively to display the details related to the profile and information portfolio of the user, retained by signing-up into the own database (DB- AP);

- once the user authentication is over, the user-interface (7), installed on the user computer, allows the management of the examinee data, namely data adding or modifying, the initiation of scanning, viewing the scan reports and so on, - the adding of a new examinee is made by sending a request to the operation processing module (OPS), via the server module (FES), request processed and further sent to the data processing module (DPS), which encrypts the data and saves them in the database (DB-PR), under an unique system identifier;

- the initiation of the scanning process is made under the same user-interface (7), which demands to the device management module (DMS) an unique identifier for the scanning of the examinee, by means of the different modules in this sequence: FES -> OPS -> DPS -> DMS, the device management module (DMS) sends to the scanning device this request, generated by the acquisition data program installed on the embedded mini-computer (6) which, during the entire scanning, sends information related to the scanning status, saved in the database (DB-PR) via the device management and data processing modules (DMS and DPS), this information is used by the local application, as to ensure the process transparency or the display of the possible data acquisition errors, by accessing the interrogation module (OQDS) which reads and returns the scanning status from the database (DB-PR).

[Claim 8] Online-accessed psychometric system, according to the claim 7, characterized by that once the scanning is over/the data are preliminary processed by the dedicated program installed on the embedded mini-computer (6), after which are sent in order to be saved in the database (DB-PR) as the data acquisition stack, a file further processed by the data processing module (DPS), having as result a number of key indicators of the system, which are stored in the database (DB-PR).

[Claim 9] Online-accessed psychometric system, according to the claim 7, characterized by that the reports corresponding to the performed scanning are generated by sending a request to the data processing module (DPS), via the server and operation processing modules (FES -> OPS), the data processing module (DPS) reads the data from the database (DB-PR) and composes a report, after it is checked if the user has sufficient credit, operation which can generates two situation: if the user credit is not sufficient, the user is announced via the user-interface (7), in order to recharge the user account, the account being refilled through the account/payment module (APS), by an usual procedure of online payment, then, after the processing data confirmation, the user can request the generation of the standard reports, included within the purchased package.

[Claim 10] Online-accessed psychometric system, according to the claim 7, characterized by that the user can customize one or more psychological constructs with the help of the user-interface (7), within the credit limit, the reports of these constructs being provided by an identical procedure as to the standard reports.

[Claim 11] Online-accessed psychometric system, according to the claim 7, characterized by that the history of the scanning and reports for an examinee is asked via the user-interface (7), whereby that examinee is selected and, via the server module (FES), the user and the encrypting code for the examinee identity are identified, this status is requested from the data processing module (DPS), generated by the server at the level of this module (DPS), namely from its database (DB-PR).

[Claim 12] Online-accessed psychometric system according to the claim 7, characterized by that in case the online connection is interrupted, the user connects the user-interface (7) with the electronic scanning device, using a data cable, the user-interface (7) allowing the examinee to be registered in the view of the assessment and the performing of the scanning and, after the data acquisition is finished, those data are preliminary processed and locally saved in the embedded mini-computer (6), having the possibility to be sent toward server after the online reconnection, in order to be processed, following the same processing data sequences.

[Claim 13] Online-accessed psychometric system, according to the claim 7, characterized by that, as for one miniature variant of the electronic scanning device, that is embedded on a support glove-like, which contains the sensors grid, for each hand, as to the AC converter modules are placed at the level of each hand and communicate with an equivalent of the embedded mini-computer by means of a wireless connection, that configuration having the role the monitoring in particular indicators for high risk activities.

[Claim 14] Online-accessed psychometric system, according to the claim 7, characterized by that it can be configured as a system with reactive sensor for attention monitoring, comprising at least one sensor, a data acquisition unit and a radio connection, the sensor is incorporated into a ring structure, made of electro-insulating material, easy and comfortably wearable on the thumb of the left hand.

[Claim 15] Online-accessed psychometric system, according to the claim 7, characterized by that it can be configured as a system with reactive sensor for vigil condition monitoring, comprising at least one sensor, a data acquisition unit and a radio connection administered by a dispatch, the sensor is incorporated into a bracelet structure, made of electro-insulating material, easy and comfortably wearable on the left or right hand wrist.