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MindMi™ System is a psychological assessment tool with a hardware component (MindSpringTM hand scanner) and a software component (MindDeckTM web application) that measures the electrodermal response by simply placing both hands of the examinee on the scanner sensors. This innovative technology is the result of 15 years of intense research activity, following a continuous process of modelling, developing and shaping the prototype. The inventor, Dumitru Grigore PhDc, eng. physicist, psychologist, author and entrepreneur, patented his system in 2013.

History

Human personality has been continuously investigated as a configuration of traits that reflect an individual’s way of acting, feeling, thinking and adjusting to the environment. The continuous process of understanding human nature and nurture is vital for predicting an individual’s way of acting in specific contexts and in different life areas such as work field, social interactions, family functioning or attitudes towards health. Various psychological traits have been investigated with psychophysiological measures, including electrodermal activity. Placing electrodes on the skin surface, especially in the palmar surface of the hand, is an ideal way to monitor the autonomic nervous system through the sweat glands, which are controlled by sympathetic nerve activity. The electrodermal response is seen as a peripheral manifestation of neural activation, entrained by demands on cognitive capacity.

The MindMi™ System came as a response to counteract the fact that all current psychological assessments are subjective in one way or another, being based on either self-assessments or a conscious assessment by another person, while more objective and deeper, unconscious aspects of the psyche remain unexplored.

Technology

The particularity of the MindMi™ System consists in the measurement of biopotentials from the skin surface (skin potential response and skin potential level) through a dual hand scanner with monopolar electrodes that gather all the necessary data in 5 minutes. Through four easy steps, the system uses the collected data to acquire psychological information through an innovative algorithmic procedure. The algorithm combines multiple variables of key relevance for their corresponding personality traits (e.g. the amplitude, the lability of the electrodermal response, the level of cortical arousal, and others). This core set of variables goes through a cybernetic modelling process, resulting in a numerous set of psychological indicators that reflect cognitive, emotional and social abilities, but also specific aptitudes and tendencies. The psychological indicators obtained are further used to create extensive psychological reports that comprise information about an examinee’s personality, cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, cognitive pattern, and interpersonal or group compatibility. MindMi™ System also provides scores for specific psychological indicators (e.g. creativity), the interpretation related to the statistical average in general population, and the conceptual explanation of these indicators.

Functionality

The results generated by the MindMi™ System can be used as an extensive source of information, having a key relevance for psychological assessment processes. MindMi™ facilitates more comprehensive data gathering and it can act as a decision support technology. It is important to note that MindMi™ reports do not treat or diagnose, but the information obtained with the system can be successfully integrated with other sources, namely interviews, other psychological tests, practical activities or assessment centers.

From a single scanning of the examinee, the MindMi™ System can generate a total of 10 existing psychological report. 7 reports are currently available and the other 3 reports are in development and will be available soon