There is a new Department of Homeland Security-funded project underway studying ways that a Wii-Fit Balance Board could be used to help detect nervous or anxious travelers to be selected for further screening. Do you think that this piece of gaming technology would be an affective form of security?
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11 comments:
This has the potential to be an innovative way to screen passengers, but I can't help but think the margin of error would prove it to be ultimately useless. A lot of people get apprehensive before flying anyway, so I wonder if many of them would be subject to additional screening...which probably wouldn't be good for their already scared state. I don't know. It's weird to think that a piece of video game equipment could prove to be that reliable or advanced since it's so readily available on a consumer level.
I feel like this idea can and will be developed into an effective tool. The future is going to be so technologically drenched I can't even fathom it..
I definitely think it has some some sort o potential in security, but I also agree with Julia above. So many people are scared to fly these days and sending people in for extra screening is only going to make them more nervous, possible giving false negatives on who is actually a threat. Once the kinks are worked out though, I think this will prove to be a useful tool.
I am not sure that this idea would work. Like Julia said, alot of people do get nervous before flying (myself included) so I am not sure how effective of a tool it would be. If it did work, it is kind of crazy to think that today's society can use a video game board as a security tool.
This could really be a great way to enhance security. However, the lines at airports are long enough. This would only create more back up in airports and transportation centers. In our face-paced society, I don't think we will be able to handle this new technology. As safe as it might make us, we will not be willing to give up another few minutes of our already extremely valuable time.
Yeah, I don't know about this one. So many people get nervous when they fly, I don't think this would work out like expected.
I don't think this would work at all. I get nervous before I fly and a lot of other people do too. Maybe someone had too much caffeine and they are jittery! There are many reasons for someone to be shaky. I don't see how they would be able to detect any kind of problem from this.
Alot of people get nervous when they fly. I even seen people who were randomly selected for further frisking and such get so nervous just because they were selected that they had to go behind the divider for further questioning. So, because of the fact that so many people have flying anxieties and such, i dont know how good of an idea this is.
This is sketchy. I think something like this would make travelers more nervous. I know a ton of people who get panicked walking through the metal detector, and I think this would really waste more people's time in an airport. But playing a video game would be kind of fun...
While I admire the efforts to make screening easier in airports, I agree in that this would be more of a hindrance than anything. Even if people weren't made nervous by the Wii Fit, it would just make security that much more complicated. In addition to the other lines, there would be the addition of one where the use of this piece of equipment would have to be explained to people who haven't ever used it before. And I have a feeling people wouldn't really take a piece of video gaming equipment incorporated into security very seriously.
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