DARPA Augmented Cognition Technical Integration Experiment (TIE)

Abstract

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Augmented Cognition program is developing innovative technologies that will transform person-machine interaction by making information systems sensitive to the capabilities and limitations of the human component of the person-machine system. By taking better advantage of individual human capabilities, and being sensitive to human limitations, it is expected that an order of magnitude improvement in system performance can be achieved. There have been many recent advances in the field of Cognitive Science toward understanding human decision making, and the Augmented Cognition program is taking advantage of them. The technologies developed over the last decade in measuring brain activity and various facets of cognition are serving as the basis for managing the way information is presented to the human operators of complex systems. The Augmented Cognition program will result in demonstrable, quantifiable augmentations to human cognitive ability in realistic operational environments. Towards this goal, the first phase of the program was to empirically assess the utility and validity of various psychophysiological measures in dynamically identifying changes in human cognitive activity as decision makers engaged in cognitive tasks. This report is the culmination of Phase I - Measuring Cognitive State. It describes the empirical results of a Technical Integration Experiment (TIE) involving the evaluation of 20 psychophysiologically derived measures (cognitive state gauges) that were developed under Phase I of the Augmented Cognition program. The results of the TIE assessment discussed in this report concluded that 11 of the gauges successfully identified changes in cognitive activity during the task, and 5 more gauges showed promise. The report also describes the issues created with sensor technology integration in developing next-generation cognitive state gauges. (14 tables, 31 figures, 14 refs.)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA420147

Entities

People

  • D. A. Kobus
  • J. G. Morrison
  • M. St. John

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brain
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Health Services
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mental Processes
  • Psychology
  • Psychophysiology

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.