Multi-Phased Student State Assessment Solution

As advanced technologies continue to provide advantages to the warfighter, there will be an increasing need for training programs that prepare individuals to effectively adopt, understand, and perform maximally with new technology systems. Working withDARPA, we plan to provide a simple-to-use, inexpensive training assessment protocol and physiological monitoring device, which will not only assess the effectiveness of the training program, but provide predictive and eventually corrective actions for taskperformance. This assessment method will eventually provide real-time feedback to the simulation system, so that as an individual progresses through the training program, their level of interest, attention, and engagement are maximized to produce the mostbeneficial result. The system proposed by VRMC will be transferrable to a variety of tasks, beyond warfighter training and into all types of training protocols. The future of "smart machines" that can adapt to the physiological responses of the user isin small, portable, non-invasive monitors such as we propose.