Human Performance Enhancement in Defence: From Monitoring to Prediction
Military personnel must perform under demanding physical, cognitive, and psychological conditions. Recent advances in sensor technology, wearable devices, artificial intelligence, and data science create new opportunities to better understand, monitor, and enhance human performance throughout the military career. In both training and operational environments, an increasing range of data can be collected to assess physical readiness, cognitive functioning, health, resilience, workload, and recovery. These measurements enable more objective and continuous insights into the factors that influence operational effectiveness and sustainable employability. A particularly promising development is the emergence of digital phenotyping, where data from wearables, smartphones, and other sensor systems are combined to characterise an individual's functioning over time. Such approaches move beyond monitoring alone and increasingly allow the prediction of changes in well-being, performance, and mental or physical deterioration before these become visible in operational outcomes.
This session brings together expertise from Defence, healthcare, psychology, human factors, and data science to discuss how emerging technologies can contribute to human performance enhancement. We will explore how data-driven approaches can support personalised training, timely interventions, health and readiness management, and decision support for both individuals and organisations. Ultimately, the goal is to move from measuring human performance to predicting, optimising, and sustaining it, thereby enhancing readiness, resilience, and mission effectiveness within Defence.
- Time: 14:45 - 16:00
- Location: Full Focus | TL 3338