Wearable Ambulatory Monitoring System

In our Phase II effort, we propose to investigate the basic concepts required to quickly measure physiological signals, develop an advanced human-computer collaborative system, and design a software developers kit (SDK) that offers system designers precise control over event timing and stimulus characteristics based on a cognitive assessment strategy capable of predicting when the war fighter is best able to process, retain, and act upon critical information. This innovative Cognitive Assessment (CA) technology, would provide: 1) unprecedented flexibility and simplicity in design and implementation of the next generation in self-paced computer-adaptive training (CAT) systems specifically designed to enhance the war fighter's operational readiness; 2) optimized collecting and processing of reaction times, EEG and event-related potentials, functional neural images, and other cognitive and stress-related measurements with functions for organizing and exporting behavioral datasets; 3) use under any current operating system to provide a user-friendly interface to existing COTS technologies for signal acquisition, task development, and data analysis; and 4) broad compatibility with net-centric Web-enabled multimedia tools for development of sophisticated C2,ISR systems.