Improving Anomaly Detection Through Identification of Physiological Signatures of Unconscious Awareness

  • Alyssa M. Piasecki
  • Mary E. Fendley
  • Rik Warren
Conference paper
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Part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 497)

Abstract

It is well-known and accepted in the field of cognitive psychology that people have no conscious experience of most of what happens in the human mind. Nevertheless, appropriate actions or conclusions are often still made without this conscious effort. This phenomenon has many potential applications, ranging from driving a vehicle to detecting threats in military video feeds. Investigation of these unconscious processes could provide an insight into potential errors that occur. The present study explores missed anomalies in a visual search task and the possibility of unconscious awareness. A total of 24 subjects participated in the task, in which the goal was to locate targets hidden in an image. Eye physiology was recorded with a Tobii T120 eye tracking monitor in order to characterize the eye physiology of detection, non-detection, and possible unconscious detection. Preliminary results indicate outliers in eye-physiology of non-detections, indicating a possible unconscious detection.

Keywords

Unconscious detection Eye-tracking Anomaly response Visual search task 
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Acknowledgments

This research was performed as part of thesis work and related to a project sponsored by the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute (DAGSI) and the Air Force Research Laboratory, 711th Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Human Analyst Augmentation Branch located at Wright-Patterson AFB.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Alyssa M. Piasecki
    • 1
  • Mary E. Fendley
    • 1
  • Rik Warren
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors EngineeringWright State UniversityDaytonUSA
  2. 2.711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research LaboratoryWPAFBOhioUSA

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