Some days, if not all, we live among a myriad of tasks, duties and tasks that we perform, usually with the time playing against us. In many cases, the simultaneity of tasks to do and little time available may lead some people to suffer severe stress disorders and physical and mental exhaustion that in the medium and long term impact on our quality of life. At MIT, a research team in collaboration with Indiana University and Tufts University are working on a system that at first glance may touch the singularity, because their purpose is to detect an "overload" in our brain to transfer some of the tasks to a computer.

This perhaps may sound so that a computer will become part of our work while we do the other party and, frankly, would not be bad that someone develop a system like that but, really, Brainput (which is the name of this system ) is oriented to detect if your brain is trying to process multiple things at once and help although somewhat more limited.

How can make the survey of the workload of our brain? This monitoring, which monitor a server's CPU is performed using near infrared spectroscopy, to some extent, provides similar results to those who can offer an MRI at the time of study brain activity. With this measuring system detects Brainput the brain of a subject is performing several processes at once and be activated with the idea of ​​help and free.



Helping in the task? Free it from having to do it? The Brainput development team led by Erin Solovey, worked in a rather curious use case to explain how the system works and this "strange principle" to rid our brain. They put a guy to handle two robots by remote control so that, in turn, had to move along a maze and calculate the movements of both devices simultaneously. The subject, of course, was connected to the system so that it detects Brainput he was "managing two tasks at once" and be activated by the robots so that their sensors were able to lower the effort of the subject and contribute to their own guidance (lowering the computational burden of the brain of the person who controlled).

This experiment Brainput team wants to show that such systems could be applied in many aspects of our daily lives, for example, a car that could detect that we have distracted (the phone with another occupant, etc.) and assume some control of the car (to avoid accidents). In addition, the team wants to explore the use of certain systems Brainput to adapt to our level of concentration, for example, increase the font size of an application or a text if it detects that we are tired or something slower reflexes or adapt the layout of buttons on a graphical interface to make it somewhat easier.

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