Continuing my blog with pictures relating to psychological technology, here are two more pictures representing this topic. The first picture is known as "biometric recognition." According to the blog titled, "Family Stop Here," biometric recognition is a technique used to identify people by their psychological and behavioral traits. In this situation, psychological traits do not necessarily mean how a person thinks or feels. Physical characteristics are what make up the psychological traits, such as shape of the body, scent, size, etc. Behavioral traits include characteristics such as voice recognition. Biometric recognition is quickly becoming a hot new addition to the technology world, especially in places needing high security. In other words, the government is highly interested in this technology.
The photo has obviously been edited and computerized. The way it was finalized was to show how scanning a person's hand using biometric recognition might look like. With the way it looks, I would say the person who edited the photo was successful in making it look like it is actually being scanned.
The second picture shows a woman wearing what looks like an oversized helmet with a bunch of wires and cameras attached. In fact, the helmet is the headgear that most pilots in the military wear when flying helicopters such as the Black Hawk. According to the article, "Research Lab Combines Psychology with Technology," graduate student, Sage Jessee, has worked as the "eye-tracking specialist on a video game style simulator that monitored the pilot’s point of gaze and head position during flight scenario." The focus of this new technology is to help pilots view the landscape and other things in front of them by looking out the windows, rather than looking at the panel inside of their cockpit. This allows more visual communication and more accuracy. This can also lead to potential benefits such as "reducing pilot errors and saving lives." I think this is a good photo. The photographer followed the rule of thirds, and captured the people in action. Its showing the beginning of structuring a new piece of technology.
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