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Wearable brain scanner could give computers insight into how hard you’re thinking
Researchers at MIT and Tufts are experimenting with a way for computers to gain a little insight into our inner world.
Their system, called Brainput, is designed to recognize when a person’s workload is excessive and then automatically modify a computer interface to make it easier. The researchers used a lightweight, portable brain monitoring technology, called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), that determines when a person is multitasking. Analysis of the brain scan data was then fed into a system that adjusted the user’s workload at those times. A computing system with Brainput could, in other words, learn to give you a break.
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Wearable brain scanner could give computers insight into how hard you’re thinking
Researchers at MIT and Tufts are experimenting with a way for computers to gain a little insight into our inner world.
Their system, called Brainput, is designed to recognize when a person’s workload is excessive and then automatically modify a computer interface to make it easier. The researchers used a lightweight, portable brain monitoring technology, called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), that determines when a person is multitasking. Analysis of the brain scan data was then fed into a system that adjusted the user’s workload at those times. A computing system with Brainput could, in other words, learn to give you a break.
(via futurescope)
