Present chairman of CNNN is profesor Mirko Novák (CTU FTS Prague).
The main interest of CNNN was since its beginning and still is focused on problems of the reliability of interaction between human subject and artificial system (namely of the transportation nature), especially as concerns attention degradation and micro-sleep appearance of the system operator (driver, pilot, dispatcher).
A set of methods based on EEG analysis suitable for micro-sleep detection and prediction was developed and tested in laboratory and also on-board of the vehicle.
The project of creating the Micro Sleep Base (MSB) composed as one of the functional blocks of the proposed international “Neurobase” of INCF GSF OECD was prepared and distributed to those universities, institutes and laboratories around the world, which are expected to be interested in MSB subsequent filling out and usage.
The first version of MSB and the respective MSB portal was created and tested in the Joint Laboratory of System Reliability, Institute of Control Engineering and Telematics, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University, Prague.
In the Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the advanced set of methods for data mining (based on the GUHA methodology and other progressive approaches), working with automatically searching for data to test the hypothesis and exploratory analysis using logic and statistical principles was developed and tested for neuroinformatic applications.
A search for brain science oriented databases suitable for acceptance in the “Neurobase” created in the Czech Republic was made. More than 10 such databases concerning neurology, which could be interesting for this purpose was found.
The first draft of the project of the drug (especially alcohol) influence investigation on the human system operator attention, reaction time and decision correctness was prepared.
The interest was given also to problems of non-tolerant and aggressive behavior of car drivers and the set of field analyses of appearance frequency of such events was made.
The national support of the research in Neuroinformatics is received in research from the Czech Ministry of Education, the Cyech Ministry of Transportation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.
