For neuroergonomics, the application of brain imaging in real-world scenarios is highly desirable as an investigation tool. Traditionally, brain imaging experiments in human factors research tend to avoid active behavior for fear of artifacts contaminating the signal of interest. Here, the development of new **data** analyses techniques as well as the combination of different methods providing complementary insights into brain and behavioral dynamics allow for new insights into the human-machine interaction. To overcome the problem of artifactual **data** in mobile recordings and to allow analyses of brain activity in real working environments new portable sensors and improved analyses approaches have to be developed. Hence, deployment of portable neuroimaging technologies to real time settings could help assess cognitive and motivational states of personnel assigned to perform critical tasks.