Measuring Drivers’ Brain and Eye Activity Could Lead to Fewer Accidents
From: NASA Tech Briefs - 07/26/2013

Latest advances in capturing data on brain activity and eye movement are
being combined develop a system that can detect when drivers are in danger of
falling asleep at the wheel.

Computer games of the future could dispense with the need for the player to
physically interact with any type of console, mouse or other hand-operated
system.

People who have no arm functionality could move their wheelchairs simply
through their eye movements. These movements could be tracked and the
corresponding brain activity analyzed to identify when these indicate a
desire to move in a certain direction. This would then automatically activate
a steering and propulsion mechanism that would drive the wheelchair to that
place.

The breakthrough could also provide the basis for improved tests to diagnose
dyslexia and other reading disorders. The new technique could enable the
person being tested to move their eyes and read longer passages of text in a
natural way, making the tests much more realistic and revealing.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/16924

Source:
Brain and eye combined monitoring breakthrough could lead to fewer road
  accidents
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2013/Pages/fewerroadaccidents.aspx

Links:
Matias Ison
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/engineering/people/academic-staff/matias-ison
http://www2.le.ac.uk/colleges/medbiopsych/research/r-themes/nb/affiliates/ison

University of Leicester Department of Engineering
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/engineering/research/bioengineering/neuroengineering-lab/people