Link: Wired News: Pentagon Preps Mind Fields.
"So much of what's done today in the military involves staring at a computer screen – parsing an intelligence report, keeping track of fellow soldiers, flying a drone airplane – that it can quickly lead to information overload. Schmorrow and other Augmented Cognition (AugCog) researchers think they can overcome this, though.
The idea – to grossly over-simplify – is that people have more than one kind of working memory, and more than one kind of attention; there are separate slots in the mind for things written, things heard and things seen. By monitoring how taxed those areas of the brain are, it should be possible to change a computer's display, to compensate. If a person's getting too much visual information, send him a text alert. If that person is reading too much at once, present some of the data visually – in a chart or map.
At Boeing Phantom Works, researchers are using AugCog technologies to design tomorrow's cockpits....
(((Did you see how cheap and flimsy that Australian game peripheral is?
The thing's like a Halloween mask. Man, the abuse-potential of these real-time brain-reader gizmos has got to be sky-high. Why not strap 'em onto people's heads and keep them captive? If they "decide" to walk out the door, you put
50,000 volts through 'em.)))
