Researchers Aim To "Read Minds" of PC Users

hhavensteincw writes "Scientists at Tufts University are researching the use of light aimed at the forehead to measure the stress, work overload, or distraction a computer user may be feeling, as a way to adjust the UI to adapt to a user's emotional state. The research combines biomedical engineering and machine learning to adjust the UI. The project, which requires users to wear a futuristic head band, uses light to measure the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain that signals a user's rising stress levels typically associated with increasingly difficult tasks."

Comments

well

[kitsunewarlock]

I for one welcome our health conscious, stress detecting robotic overlords. But seriously...Imagine this technology looking at the eyes and other more "careful" stress and tissue damage indicators on a torture device...that way you can adjust the device to get the same amount of "pain" for each user with a single setting (after all, I imagine my threshold for pain is much lower than that of, for example, Chuck Norris in his prime).