Passing through airport security can be stressful and sometimes intrusive. At busy times tempers become frayed and people sometimes display unusual and uncharacteristic behaviour. Interestingly, the US Transportation Security Administration, has invested significantly in ‘behaviour detection’, primarily to discover potential terrorists passing through security. One of the methods of the scheme is to detect facial expressions which indicate stress – which potentially could bring the TSA to focus on every traveller passing through stringent security!This short article gives interesting background – particularly on the numbers of personnel screened using behaviour detection.
http://www.star-telegram.com/national_news/story/564545.html
