Join fellow SWE members and guests for an overview of how researchers at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory are applying psychophysiological techniques to a variety of problems, including security screening, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Integrated Training and Assessment. Data are collected from human participants during research protocols that address each of these areas of interest, features are extracted from the physiological data, statistical analysis is performed, and inferences are made regarding a participant's intentions or level of arousal.

Psychophysiology is the study of the relations between psychological manipulations and resulting physiological responses. A variety of contact and non-contact sensors can be used to collect physiological responses to a variety of stimuli, including questions, emotionally evocative images and sounds, and virtual reality scenarios. After data are collected, the physiological responses are submitted to a variety of algorithms to extract features and perform statistical analysis and data fusion. The ultimate goal is to develop algorithms that can be used to differentiate participants who belong to different groups for each construct of interest.

Sponsored by The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.

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