Abstract: A determination apparatus includes one or more memories, and one or more processors configured to perform, on the basis of data detected by a sensor that measures a first user who operates a first avatar, detection of a first behavior of the first user, determine a first type of behavior corresponding to the detected first behavior by referring to information indicating correspondence between a plurality of behaviors and a plurality of types of behavior, and perform, on the basis of a behavior tendency of the first user determined in accordance with the first type of behavior, control of an output to an environment where the first avatar exists.

Abstract: An image generation method, for displaying avatars. The method includes identifying a tendency in a predetermined temporal interval of a social behavior performed by a second user to a first user if the first user performs the social behavior to the second user, of the users performing communications by way of avatars. The method may also include controlling the social behavior selected based on the identified tendency such that the social behavior is presented to the first user by way of the avatar of the second user, if the first user performs the social behavior to the second user.

Abstract: An action control method includes when a first state of a first user in communication with a first machine avatar is detected, specifying a first action of the first machine avatar for changing a state of the first user from the first state to a second state that is more desirable than the first state based on history information indicating changes in states of users in response to actions of machine avatars or different users in communication with the users, and causing the first machine avatar to perform the first action.

Abstract: A determination apparatus includes one or more memories, and one or more processors configured to perform, on the basis of data detected by a sensor that measures a first user who operates a first avatar, detection of a first behavior of the first user, determine a first type of behavior corresponding to the detected first behavior by referring to information indicating correspondence between a plurality of behaviors and a plurality of types of behavior, and perform, on the basis of a behavior tendency of the first user determined in accordance with the first type of behavior, control of an output to an environment where the first avatar exists.

Abstract: An image generation method, for displaying avatars. The method includes identifying a tendency in a predetermined temporal interval of a social behavior performed by a second user to a first user if the first user performs the social behavior to the second user, of the users performing communications by way of avatars. The method may also include controlling the social behavior selected based on the identified tendency such that the social behavior is presented to the first user by way of the avatar of the second user, if the first user performs the social behavior to the second user.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus, including a memory storing avatar data representing a motion of an avatar in a virtual space and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to obtain sensor information that represents a motion of a person in a real space acquired from at least one sensor, determine a first value that indicates an impression of the person based on the obtained sensor information, determine a type of the motion based on the obtained sensor information, select at least one candidate data set corresponding to the type of the motion from the memory, determine a second value that indicates impression of the avatar for each of the selected at least one data set, select a representative data set based on the determined first value and the determined second value, and generate an avatar image based on the representative data set.

Abstract: An action control method includes when a first state of a first user in communication with a first machine avatar is detected, specifying a first action of the first machine avatar for changing a state of the first user from the first state to a second state that is more desirable than the first state based on history information indicating changes in states of users in response to actions of machine avatars or different users in communication with the users, and causing the first machine avatar to perform the first action.

Abstract: An information processing method relating to movement of eye positions includes: identifying, for each of plural users, transition of movement directions of an eye gaze of the user, from movement history of the eye gaze of the user on a display screen; and extracting a minor user among the plural users based on the transition of the movement directions of the eye gaze, which is identified for each of the plural users.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus includes memory and processors programed to execute a process including acquiring first data indicating a position of a body portion of a predetermined person being sensed at first timing, generating a first image having the position of the body portion indicated by the first data reflected in an avatar representing the predetermined person, acquiring second data indicating a position of the body portion of the predetermined person being sensed at second timing, determining whether to reflect the position of the body portion of the body indicated by the second data in the avatar according to change in movement of the predetermined person from the first to the second data, and outputting a second image having the position of the body portion indicated by the second data reflected in the avatar when determined to reflect the position of the body portion indicated by the second data.

Abstract: A method of processing information includes: identifying a time span in a period of viewing a content based on detection results of the behavioral viewing states of the user viewing the content, the time span being a period, during which a behavioral viewing state of the user is not determined to be a positive state or a negative state; extracting a time period during which an index indicating one of the positive state and the negative state of the user has an unordinary value with respect to values of the other time periods in the time span; and estimating a time period, during which the user has quite possible been in at least one of the positive state and the negative state, based on the time period extracted by the extracting.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus, including a memory storing avatar data representing a motion of an avatar in a virtual space and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to obtain sensor information that represents a motion of a person in a real space acquired from at least one sensor, determine a first value that indicates an impression of the person based on the obtained sensor information, determine a type of the motion based on the obtained sensor information, select at least one candidate data set corresponding to the type of the motion from the memory, determine a second value that indicates impression of the avatar for each of the selected at least one data set, select a representative data set based on the determined first value and the determined second value, and generate an avatar image based on the representative data set.

Abstract: A reaction output apparatus including a memory storing image group information including a virtual space and a plurality of avatars, each avatar within the virtual space represents a person in a real space, and a processor configured to obtain sensor information that indicates movement of a first person and a second person, generate an image group based on the virtual space including a first avatar indicating movement of the first person and a second avatar to indicate movement of a second person, determine an action event based on the movement of the first person, wait a period of time to determine if the second person reacts to the movement of the first person, create group representation including the first avatar and the second avatar and the action event, output the group representation to a device associated with the first person and a device associated with the second person.

Abstract: A content providing program causing a computer to execute content provision processing including, acquiring a first viewing situation of a first viewer viewing a provided content in association with time when the content is provided; registering, on the basis of the first viewing situation, as feedback desirable content, missed content in a time segment in which the first viewer is likely to have failed to view the content; estimating, on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, a state in which the first viewer is enabled to view the content; and providing the first viewer with the feedback desirable content in a time segment in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in a viewable state.

Abstract: An information management unit 12 of an information management apparatus 1 represents a device as an object by a service provided and data stored in the apparatus. The information management unit 12 further sends and receives an object by a communication unit 23 and manages a surrounding apparatus as a similarly modeled object. A device policy creating unit 24 defines from objects what kind of device state is desirable when the surrounding environment is constituted by a plurality of devices in particular states as a device policy, and changes a setting of the information management apparatus 1 according to the device policy.

Abstract: A perceptual reaction analyzer transmits content to the terminals, receives the perceptual reaction information, generates perceptual reaction change information, estimates the presence/absence of interest of the users based on the perceptual reaction change information to classify the users into groups corresponding to the presence/absence of the interest, generates a certainty level which indicates a degree of certainty of the presence/absence of interest, and tries, for a low certainty user, an operation on the content corresponding to the perceptual reaction by which the same presence/absence of interest of the low certainty user is estimated again, based on the perceptual reaction information of a user of which presence/absence of interest is the same as the low certainty user.

Abstract: An information processing method relating to movement of eye positions includes: identifying, for each of plural users, transition of movement directions of an eye gaze of the user, from movement history of the eye gaze of the user on a display screen; and extracting a minor user among the plural users based on the transition of the movement directions of the eye gaze, which is identified for each of the plural users.

Abstract: Biometric information registered for each user is held, user information being a plurality types of attribute information associated with each user is held, a possibility that the user requests authentication is predicted and a predicted value is calculated for each user by using the plurality types of attribute information contained in the held user information. When biometric information for an authentication request is accepted, the accepted biometric information is matched against the biometric information for a plurality of users determined based on calculated predicted values, and it is determined based on the result of the matching whether a person having entered the accepted biometric information is authenticated as the user.

Abstract: An information management apparatus includes a first control information setting unit that sets first control information for permitting use of information within a destination terminal to the information; a second control information setting unit that sets second control information for permitting the destination terminal to forward the information to the information; a displaying permitting unit that controls, when information set with the first control information is received from a source terminal, to permit the information to be used locally within an apparatus; and a forwarding permitting unit that controls, when information set with the second control information is received from a source terminal, to permit the information to be forwarded.

Abstract: A method of processing information includes: identifying a time span in a period of viewing a content based on detection results of the behavioral viewing states of the user viewing the content, the time span being a period, during which a behavioral viewing state of the user is not determined to be a positive state or a negative state; extracting a time period during which an index indicating one of the positive state and the negative state of the user has an unordinary value with respect to values of the other time periods in the time span; and estimating a time period, during which the user has quite possible been in at least one of the positive state and the negative state, based on the time period extracted by the extracting.

Abstract: A content providing program causing a computer to execute content provision processing including, acquiring a first viewing situation of a first viewer viewing a provided content in association with time when the content is provided; registering, on the basis of the first viewing situation, as feedback desirable content, missed content in a time segment in which the first viewer is likely to have failed to view the content; estimating, on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, a state in which the first viewer is enabled to view the content; and providing the first viewer with the feedback desirable content in a time segment in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in a viewable state.