Counseling System is a service that benefits both counselors and their clients by providing real-time analysis and visualization of biometric data. Using a wearable device, the system monitors changes in blood flow and translates them into stress values through an algorithm developed by Nitto.
Features
Using a simple wearable device to obtain bio-feedback, Counseling System has the potential to bring practical benefits to counselors eager to improve their counseling skills. It enables them to accurately grasp in real time the reactions to and effects of counseling.
Bio-feedback refers to information obtained in a way that the client can perceive and understand. For more information on bio-feedback, visit this page.
From the client’s perspective, providing objective and visually accessible information about the effects of counseling is expected to help reaffirm the value of the sessions. It can also keep them motivated to continue their counseling care.
Basic mechanism
The key features of Counseling System are as follows:
- Simple design for intuitive operation.
- Notetaking and tagging function (Annotation) to aid understanding of the stress values generated by the algorithm.
- Report creation function effectively supports reflection on outcomes of counseling.
The basic mechanism of Counseling System can be summarized as follows:
- Capture and digitize blood flow data with the dedicated wearable device.
- Transform this data into stress values with the proprietary analysis algorithm.
- Upload this data to the cloud via the mobile application.
- Visualize the stress values using the web application.
Principle
The real-time visualization of stress values, which is the basis for Counseling System, is supported by two technologies. The first one of a technology for the accurate measurement of physiological data. The second one is the algorithm for the conversion of this physiological data into numeric stress values. Both technologies are proprietary technologies of Nitto.
Nitto has developed a new pulse waveform analysis technology. Conventional pulse waveform analysis has focused predominantly on periodic waveform changes by analysis of pulse timing variations (horizontal axis: time). By incorporating non-periodic waveform changes in the form of pulse peak variations (vertical axis), Nitto has made it possible to comprehensively analyze information obtained from the pulse waveform. This increased volume of information is expected to enhance the accuracy of stress value calculations obtained using algorithmic analysis.
