Abstract: A method includes: obtaining user schedule information having events of a user registered by time and date, facility schedule information having available time of a facility providing predetermined service registered therein, and information indicating correspondence relationship of a predetermined event out of the events and the facility; detecting first available time that is before time and date of the predetermined event and also after a current clock time using the user schedule information; detecting a common time period between the first available time and second available time that is available time of a first facility corresponding to the predetermined event using the facility schedule information and the information indicating correspondence relationship; making a primary reservation of the facility in the common time period for the user; generating presentation information being to present the primary reservation to the user; and sending the presentation information to a terminal device of the user

Abstract: An information presenting method of providing presentation information to a terminal apparatus includes acquiring user schedule information in which at least one event is registered by a user for each date and time; searching for a free time after a current time, in which no event is registered, on the basis of the user schedule information; and generating the presentation information including information indicating a benefit which the user is capable of receiving in the free time in a facility that provides a service and transmitting the presentation information to the terminal apparatus at a timing when the free time starts.

Abstract: First rating information is input by a first user who has received a service from a service providing person and indicates a rating for the service providing person. Second rating information is input by a second user other than the first user and indicates ratings for service providing persons including the above service providing person. A service providing person to be recommended to the first user is searched for, using the first rating information and the second rating information. Presentation information for presenting the first user the service providing person to be recommended to the first user found as a result of the search is generated. The presentation information is transmitted to a terminal device.

Abstract: An information provision apparatus (20) has the following: a presentation-information reception unit (21) that receives presentation information generated by a server (10) and stores said presentation information in a prescribed storage unit; and a presentation unit (22) that presents the presentation information to the user of the device (20), said presentation information having been read out from the aforementioned storage unit. The presentation information indicates, at least and on a per-action basis, what actions were taken by users of the same model as or similar models to the abovementioned device (20) upon malfunctions in the devices used by said users. For cases in which the malfunctioning device was replaced, the presentation information includes information that indicates the newly purchased model, and for cases in which the malfunctioning device was repaired, the presentation information includes information that indicates where the user had the device repaired.

Abstract: Provided is a server device capable of increasing the availability of a device by urging a user who uses the device to perform actions related to maintenance service. In this server device, an information transceiver receives operation information about a device. A remaining life determination unit determines the remaining life of the device or a component of the device based on the operation information. When the determined remaining life reaches a predetermined remaining life or becomes shorter than the predetermined remaining life, a transmission destination setting unit sets a device that is possessed by a person having a predetermined relationship with the user of the device as a transmission destination for the transmission of maintenance service information based on relationship information indicating the relationship between the user of the device and another person who is not the user. The information transceiver transmits the maintenance service information to the transmission destination.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes an information receiver that receives, from a server apparatus, first webpage information, which enables a first user to specify an image to be posted on a first website, a storage that stores the received first webpage information, and an information processor that reads the first webpage information from the storage and that displays the first webpage information on a screen. In the screen, among a plurality of images, which are candidates for the image to be posted on the first website, an image selected on the basis of an image used in a second website is displayed at a position closer to the center of the screen than positions of other images are or displayed in a mode different from a mode in which the other images are displayed.

Abstract: In a case where a chapter that introduces a predetermined non-heating step is being played back and execution of the non-heating step has not been completed, a moving image playback control section included in a terminal apparatus controls playback so that the chapter that is being played back is repeated or paused, and when execution of the non-heating step is completed, a subsequent chapter is played back.

Abstract: A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing the appliance use information stored in the storing to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing.

Abstract: On the basis of stored recognition result information and current recipe information, there is generated presentation information that includes information indicating a second user who is executing in real-time the same cooking step of the same recipe as a cooking step of a recipe that a first user is actively executing. The generated presentation information is displayed on a display of a terminal device used by the first user via a network.

Abstract: A content presenting method of the present disclosure includes: a history collecting step of collecting a viewing history of a user; a determining step of analyzing the viewing history to determine an active time segment in which an output section is in a state of being viewed; a data collecting step of collecting meta data assigned to a viewed content; an analyzing step of analyzing the meta data to extract a word representing the content; a profile generating step of generating, for each active time segment, a user profile based on the extracted word; a calculation step of calculating an estimated viewing time; and a playlist generating step of selecting contents based on the user profile generated correspondingly to the active time segment to be compatible with the estimated viewing time, to generate a playlist which defines an order in which the selected contents are played.

Abstract: There are included: a step for receiving, through communication, pieces of operation information each including (a) operating state information of a device and (b) user information for identifying a user, in association with each other; a step storing the pieces of the operation information received in the receiving into a first storage unit; a step for reading, from a second storage unit, behavior tendency information including, in association with each other, (c) operating state information of at least one device and (d) a predetermined user behavior tendency of the user; and a step for specifying the predetermined user behavior tendency which corresponds to the operating state information of at least one device, by searching the pieces of the operation information for the operating state information of at least one device which is included in the behavior tendency information.

Abstract: Included are: a plural-push information management unit; a screen attention degree determination unit; a selection operation history collection unit; a selection probability calculation unit calculating a user's selection probability for each category; and a display style determination unit causing pieces of push information in a category having a higher probability to be displayed in a more easily selectable display style. The categories include a relevance category including pieces of push information regarding content displayed on the screen. The selection probability calculation unit calculates a selection probability of the relevance category having a first attention degree as a screen attention degree to be higher than that having the second attention degree lower than the first attention degree; and calculates a selection probability having a first number as the number of selection times to be higher than that having a second number smaller than the first number.

Abstract: Provided is a lifestyle collecting apparatus that collects information for determining a lifestyle of a user, and includes: an object information detecting unit configured to detect object information representing an object around the user; a relevance degree calculating unit configured to calculate a relevance degree of the user to the object, using the object information; an appearance information extracting unit configured to extract appearance information from the object information, and add the relevance degree to the extracted appearance information, the appearance information representing an appearance of the object; and a lifestyle database which stores the appearance information to which the relevance degree has been added, as the information for determining the lifestyle of the user.

Abstract: A control method of the present disclosure is a control method of an information processing apparatus which includes a storage unit that stores predetermined resource information related to a resource required for a living activity of a user, the method including: an acquiring step of acquiring device information; an estimating step of estimating a living activity of the user; a competition extracting step of extracting a living activity group including living activities for which the resources are likely to compete among the living activities, based on the resource information; a resource judging step of judging whether a required resource has been secured for each of the living activities, based on the device information and the resource information; and an inhibition extracting step of extracting, as an inhibited living activity, a living activity for which it has been judged that the required resource has not been secured.

Abstract: A user interface device estimates a user's degree of interest, for performing an input process on the basis of the user's degree of interest in a plurality of objects displayed on a screen. The device includes a gaze direction detection unit that detects a gaze direction of the user; a gaze duration calculation unit that calculates gaze duration during which the gaze direction has remained on each of the plurality of objects; an eye-attracting force calculation unit that calculates eye-attracting force of each of the plurality of objects; and a degree of interest estimation unit that estimates the user's degree of interest in each of the plurality of objects, such that the longer the gaze duration is the higher the degree of interest becomes, and that the smaller the eye-attracting force is the higher the degree of interest becomes.

Abstract: A gaze target determination device includes an event setting unit that generates, for each object at different times, a display event which triggers a movement of the gaze direction of the user who is gazing at the object and which indicates a movement or a change of the object; and a gaze trajectory calculation unit that calculates a gaze trajectory based on the detected user's gaze direction. An eye movement event detection unit detects an event detection time which is a time at which the gaze direction moves according to the display event, based on the calculated gaze trajectory. A synchronization structure analysis unit calculates, for each object, time difference between the event detection time and event occurrence time; and a gaze target determination unit determines the object at which the user is gazing from among the objects, based on the calculated time difference.

Abstract: A display control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure performs processing using (a) a main content item to be displayed by a display unit and (b) display elements arranged in a chain from which the main content item is selected. The display control device includes the following units. An importance calculation unit obtains additional information to be notified to a user and calculates an importance of the additional information. A relevance calculation unit calculates a relevance between the additional information and the main content item. A position determination unit determines a position to which the additional information is to be inserted in the display elements, based on the calculated importance and the calculated relevance. The position determination unit determines the position to receive more attention from the user as the importance and the relevance of the additional information are higher.

Abstract: Included are: a plural-push information management unit; a screen attention degree determination unit; a selection operation history collection unit; a selection probability calculation unit calculating a user's selection probability for each category; and a display style determination unit causing pieces of push information in a category having a higher probability to be displayed in a more easily selectable display style. The categories include a relevance category including pieces of push information regarding content displayed on the screen. The selection probability calculation unit calculates a selection probability of the relevance category having a first attention degree as a screen attention degree to be higher than that having the second attention degree lower than the first attention degree; and calculates a selection probability having a first number as the number of selection times to be higher than that having a second number smaller than the first number.

Abstract: Provided is a lifestyle collecting apparatus that collects information for determining a lifestyle of a user, and includes: an object information detecting unit configured to detect object information representing an object around the user; a relevance degree calculating unit configured to calculate a relevance degree of the user to the object, using the object information; an appearance information extracting unit configured to extract appearance information from the object information, and add the relevance degree to the extracted appearance information, the appearance information representing an appearance of the object; and a lifestyle database which stores the appearance information to which the relevance degree has been added, as the information for determining the lifestyle of the user.

Abstract: Provided is a viewing terminal apparatus that can present an appropriate result of statistics on viewing of a content for diversified viewing modes. The viewing terminal apparatus includes: a category determining unit that determines, as a viewer category, a relationship between viewers who are viewing a content displayed on a display; a transmitting unit that transmits, to the viewing statistics-gathering apparatus, first viewing status information indicating the content that is being viewed by the viewers and the viewer category determined by the category determining unit, the content being associated with the viewer category; and a viewing statistics presenting unit that obtains viewing statistics information from the viewing statistics-gathering apparatus, and presents a result of statistics that is (i) indicated by the obtained viewing statistics information and (ii) a result of statistics on viewing of a content only by viewers who belong to a predetermined viewer category.