user monitoring the remote location in either case the user is instilled with the belief that if he does not report the emergency it will not be reported at all in an alternate embodiment central server 200 informs the user whenever an emergency is reported by another user at the location the user is monitoring in this manner when an emergency occurs the user knows whether anyone else has reported it yet and can act accordingly in some of the embodiments discussed hereinafter central server 200 imposes penalties for false positives or inattentiveness and or pays bonuses for the detection of legitimate emergencies thus in those embodiments users are economically motivated to report legitimate emergencies continuing with fig8 a central server 200 in step 825 uses the task identifier to access the corresponding record in the user performance testing rules database 250 at the test communication intervals specified in field 715 central server 200 transmits the test communication specified in field 710 of the record to the user device to measure user attentiveness in a first embodiment the test communication comprises a randomly transmitted predetermined video of a fabricated emergency in a second embodiment the test communication comprises one or more questions communicated to the user for example by e mail in an alternate embodiment central server 200 monitors a biometric reading from the user at the remote device to measure user attentiveness for example the user device may be equipped with a retinal scanner similar to those being developed for atm machines the retinal scanner would then take random periodic or.