Fatigue evaluation for work load of Visual Display Terminals (VDT) operation

Yuriko Hachiya*, Harutoshi Ogai, Hiroko Okazaki, Takeshi Fujisaki, Kazuhiko Uchida, Susumu Oda, Futoshi Wada, Koji Mori

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Abstract

A method for the analysis of fatigue parameters has been rarely researched in VDT operation. Up to now, fatigue was evaluated by changing of biological information. If signals regarding fatigue are detected, fatigue can be measured. This study proposes an experiment and analysis method to extract parameters related to fatigue from the biological information during VDT operation using the Independent Component Analysis (ICA). An experiment had 11 subjects. As for the experiment were light loaded VDT operation and heavy loaded VDT operation. A measurement item were amount of work, a mistake number, subjective symptom, surface skin temperature (forehead and apex nasi), heart rate, skin blood flow of forearm and respiratory rate. In the heavy loaded operation group, mistake number and subjective symptom score were increased to compare with the other. And Two-factor ANOVA was used for analysis. The result of mistake number was confirmed that heavy loaded. After the moving averages of waveshapes were calculated, it was made to extract independent components by using the ICA. The results of the ICA suggest that the independent components increase according to accumulation of fatigue. Thus, the independent components would be a possible parameter of fatigue.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICCAS 2007 - International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems
Pages1887-1892
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2007 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2007 Oct 172007 Oct 20

Publication series

NameICCAS 2007 - International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2007
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period07/10/1707/10/20

Keywords

  • Biological information
  • Fatigue
  • ICA (Independent Component Analysis)
  • VDT (Visual Display Terminals)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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