The invention presents a networked system for communicating information to an individual and for remotely monitoring the individual. The system includes a server and a remote interface for entering in the server a set of queries to be answered by the individual. The server is preferably a web server and the remote interface is preferably a personal computer or remote terminal connected to the server via the Internet. The system also includes a remotely programmable apparatus connected to the server via a communication network, preferably the Internet. The apparatus interacts with the individual in accordance with a script program received from the server. The server includes a script generator for generating the script program from the set of queries entered through the remote interface. The script program is received and executed by the apparatus to communicate the queries to the individual, to receive responses to the queries, and to transmit the responses from the apparatus to the server.

Brain response signals of a user, such as electroencephalogram signals, and in particular visually evoked potential signals that correspond to predetermined illumination patterns, are detected and utilized to ascertain selection of specific functions and/or actions as desired by that user. Sources of illumination that exhibit such patterns are arranged to physically correspond to indicia of such functions and actions to facilitate knowing selection thereof.

A system and method of generating an immersive digital image sequence capable of providing a perception of self-motion, includes the steps of: generating the digital image sequence; and adjusting the digital image sequence to control the perception of self-motion, whereby the degree of motion sickness induced in a viewer of the digital image sequence is controlled.

The present invention discloses an architecture of an embedded internet robot system controlled by brain waves, wherein the brain-computer interface and the internet robot system cooperate with the alertness level detection technology and the instruction translation technology, and thereby, the user can control a distal-end robot purely via consciousness activities and can interact with the environment as if there were an entity representing the user's consciousness appearing in the distal end. The seriously disabled person can regain his expressive ability via the present invention. Further, the present invention can also be applied to a multi-player interactive game system.

Disclosed herein is an amusement system that can be used and enjoyed by different persons without using the brain continuously and with little feeling of fatigue and which permits setting a probe at any spot on the head of the subject. The amusement system includes irradiators for irradiating the subject with light, light detectors for detection of the light that has been emitted from said irradiator and which has propagated through the living body, signal processors for processing the signal of light intensity detected by said detector and display units that show the processing results from the signal processor. The range of display of a change in intensity of said transmitted light according to the results of a test task carried out on said living body.