ABSTRACT

Abstract Under the auspices of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Augmented Cognition (AugCog) program is striving to realize the unambiguous determination of the cognitive state via physiological measurements. The basis of this program is the assumption that as computing power continues to increase, the exchange of information between computers and their human users is fundamentally limited by human information processing capabilities, particularly when the users are fatigued or placed under stressful conditions such as those present in warfare command environments. Knowledge of the cognitive state will enable the development of a human-computer interface that adapts to optimize the processing of information by the user.