After interviewing ten customers, we know that the training facility will use various devices that tracks eye movement, heart rate variability, motion, and other human performance metrics. However, each hardware collects and stores data separately, and there currently exists no way for the data to be stored in a single location. The military lacks an efficient way to store this data which leads to the lag in the analysis of the data. More specifically, we discovered that data is in the hands of the Cognitive Performance Coordinator (CPC) who gets the raw data must spend a lot of time scrubbing the data before giving the data to the data analysts. The data analysts support the research psychologists in evaluating the training program. Our customers emphasized that the data should be continuously updated as new data occurs.

Next week, we plan on interviewing potential trainees. All of our interviews this week were with individuals who would be facilitating or leading the training program. Speaking with trainees will allow a more holistic picture of the training program. Additionally, we plan on speaking to more data analysts. The data analyst can address our questions of their daily technical functions as well as their inability to work with raw data. Apart from more diverse interviewees, we plan to clarify on the timeline in training site construction, type of biometric devices that are currently used and future biometric devices that will be used, and why the data analysts cannot scrub the raw data.