MIND -READING COMPUTER

CONTENT
1.Introduction.
2.What is Mind-Reading Machine?
3.Why mind reading?
4.How does it work?
5.Advantages and uses
6.Disadvantages
7.Conclusion
8. References
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1. Introduction

Problems with existing computer.

a. Receive input from slow tools.

b. Require explicit input.
c. Mind-Blind
Theory of Mind-Reading

The ability to attribute mental states to others from their

behaviour and to use that knowledge to guide our own
actions and predict those of others .
. Need of Mind-Reading machine

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2. What is Mind-Reading Machine?

Machines that represent computational model of mindreading to infer mental states of people from their facial
signals.
Developed by a team of cambridge university, taking
inspiration from Psychology, Computer vision and
Machine Learning.
Prior knowledge of how particular mental states are
expressed through face in real time is required. Software
from Nevenvision identifies 24 feature points on the face
and tracks them in real time. Movement, Shape and
Colour are then analyzed to identify gestures like smile etc.
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3. Why mind reading?

Input to computer with incredible speed

To support on-line shopping and learning systems.

To control the animation of cartoon avatars.
To detect driver mental states such as drowsiness,
distraction and anger.
To monitor and
Suggests improvement
in human-human
Interaction.

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4. How does it work?

Electroencephalograph(EEG) a device used by medical

researchers to pick up electrical currents from various parts of the
brain.

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

Technology which measures the volume and oxygen level of the
blood around the subject's brain.

Futuristic headband that sends light

into the tissues of the head where it is
absorbed by active, blood-filled tissues.
then it measures how much light was
not absorbed.
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4. How does it work?

Wearing the fNIRS sensor , experimental subjects were

asked to count the no. of squares on a rotating onscreen
cube . The subjects were then asked to rate the difficulty of
the tasks, 83% time it is matched with fNIRS system.
NASA has developed a computer program which can read
silently spoken words by analyzing nerve signals in our
mouth and throats . Just the slightest movement in the
Voice box and tounge is enough to work.
Initially scientists trained the software program to recognize
six words-including go , left , right and 10 numbers.
Participants hooked up to the sensors silently , said the
words to themselves and the software correctly picked up
the signals 92% of the time.
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5. Advantages and uses

Mind controlled wheelchair

developed by university of electrocommunications in Japan to feel
you like half professor X and half Stephen Hawking except with the
theoretical physics skills of the former and the telekinetic skills of
the latter.

The result of this is that you can move the wheelchair

solely with the power of your mind.
Dumb people can talk.
The sensors have been tested to do simple web searches and may
help space-walking astronauts in future.
The system can send commands to rovers on other planets.
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5. Advantages and uses contd.

Help injured astronauts to control machines, or

aid disabled people.
For screening suspected terrorists
as well as for predicting future dangerousness more
generally. We are closer than ever to the crimeprediction technology .
The pilot of a high-speed plane or spacecraft, for
instance, can order some vital flight information by
thought only . No need to search the right dials or
switches on crowed instrument panel.
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6. Disadvantages and problems

FMRI results have to account for heart rate,

respiration , motion and a number of other factors
that may cause variance in the signal.

Individual brains differ, soscientists need to

study a subject's patterns before they can train a
computer to identify those patterns or make prediction.
Tapping Brains for Future Crimes
we cannot reliably predict human behavior- so, we
risk criminalizing the innocent.
Question upon the fundamental principles of our
criminal justice system.
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6. Disadvantages and problems contd.

We aren't particularly good at rehabilitation

Our society is not ready
The initial tests may have been successful
because of the short lengths of the words .
The initial success doesn't mean it will scale up. It is
necessary to repeat the tests on many different people and
check whether sensor is working on everyone or not.

Small vocabulary, Isolated word recognition is a

quite different problem than conversational speech,
not just in scale but in kind also.
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7. Conclusion
If 3 year project of Tufts university

becomes

successful, then we can allow computers to respond to

the brain activity of the user.
These computers can perform telephaty , by
translating brain activity into words.
If it will be known that which air traffic
controllers were overloaded , the next incoming
plane would be assigned to another controller.
Hence if we get 100% accuracy these computers
may find various applications in many fields,
specially in electronics where we have very less
time to react.
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8. References

www.newscientist.com/article/dn4795-nasadevelops-mindreading-system
http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~etreac01/papers/hciintl.
09.pdf
www.eurescom.de/message/default_Dec2004.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNIR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalograp
hy

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for
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