BEAT-2A Phase II

On todayÆs technological battlefield, Soldiers are pushed to accomplish cognitively demanding tasks while experiencing stress, sleep deprivation, and varying emotional states. There exists great potential for the Army to embrace human-AI collaboration and implement adaptive automation in cognitively demanding tasks. Adaptive automation aims to provide assistive aids to humans precisely when needed, but this requires a roust and reliable method of triggering. Physiological sensors provide continuous, objective data which can be used as a triggering source for automated aids; however, research is needed to develop and test a system which senses and processes physiological data and triggers automated support. Design Interactive, Inc. (DI) proposes the development of the Biosignature Evaluation and Analytics Toolkit ¢ Adaptive Automation (BEAT-2A). DI will leverage the existing BEAT system architecture and develop an adaptive automation module to classify physiological data into user states and provide individualized thresholding for adaptive triggering. The BEAT-2A software-hardware system will sense and process a userÆs physiological state providing just-in-time triggering to improve task performance. BEAT-2A will be open to integration with a variety of system where triggers are needed for automated aids.