Areas of application and impact on security and safety issues

The feasibility study carried with the JAZZ-novo Multisensor found that JAZZ-novo can be used for systematic detection of specific oculomotor behaviors which are directly linked with the current status of the visual attention engagement. The JAZZ-novo is a complex psycho-physiological measurement system, which operation is controlled by several microprocessors. It is a system which releases the experimenter from taking care of the measurement technicalities, which usually requires involvement of technically oriented personnel to setup the system and check it's performance.

The JAZZ-novo multisensor microprocessor technology makes these setting and checking tasks, invisible for the experimenter. There is no necessity of any kind of setting and checking the system operation. Only if necessary the simple calibration–scaling experiment requires experimenter's participation.

The JAZZ-novo technology can be considered as a milestone in automation of psycho-physiological measurements, of which the main objective is to monitor the engagement of the operators visual attention as well as the human attention in general, which accompany the cognitive involvement when human interacts with the environment.

The most important aspect of knowing the operator's visual attention engagement is the possibility to watch the process of learning, which can range from simple acquisition of skills based interaction, up to the complex knowledge based solving of unexpected novelty situations. The learning, acquiring the skills and the real time problem solving are the essence of operator interaction with complex technical system. Just to name few of them: airliner cockpit, captain of bridge on the ship, interaction of anesthesiologist team within the surgery theater, application in advanced military training and operations, including the learning how children learn and what are the individual difference measures of the learning process, which decide about success or failure in school.

JAZZ-novo multisensor system has enormous practical potential, because of it's simplicity to use, the advanced signal processing algorithms and efficient software, as well as it's minimum intrusiveness which is certainly is the most important feature for its real life applications. Monitoring the human behavior using the JAZZ-novo system, does not disturb the process of interaction of the operator with controlled environment and studying using the computer for learning.

It can be foreseen that the JAZZ-novo multisensor and CognitoMetrics methodology, developed for the advanced studies of pilot's shared situation awareness, will revolutionize in a near future our understanding of the learning in general and in particular will help us to make the learning more physiological, cognition based. What ever we are capable to do, first we need to learn it.