New tool can track your alertness at work – Research Study reveals

New tool can track your alertness at work – Research Study reveals

The findings, published in the journal ACM Digital Library, showed that the pupil-scanning reliably predicted alertness.

For the study, the research team included two studies conducted over two years.

The new tool could be particularly useful in health care, since medical professionals often work long hours doing intricate and important work. For example, clinicians typically look at devices during surgery, and a front-facing camera on the devices could track their alertness throughout procedures, Tseng said.

But understanding alertness patterns could be helpful to people in many kinds of workplaces, Tseng added.

Research Details

Vincent W.-S. Tseng, Saeed Abdullah, Jean Costa and Tanzeem Choudhury. “AlertnessScanner: What Do Your Pupils Tell About Your Alertness?” Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI’18).

Published at | https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3229456

Abstract of the Research

Alertness is a crucial component of our cognitive performance. Reduced alertness can negatively impact memory consolidation, productivity and safety. As a result, there has been an increasing focus on continuous assessment of alertness. The existing methods usually require users to wear sensors, fill out questionnaires, or perform response time tests periodically, in order to track their alertness. These methods may be obtrusvie to some users, and thus have limited capability. In this work, we propose AlertnessScanner, a computer-vision-based system that collects in-situ pupil information to model alertness in the wild. We conducted two in-the-wild studies to evaluate the effectiveness of our solution, and found that AlertnessScanner passively and unobtrusively assess alertness. We discuss the implications of our findings and present opportunities for mobile applications that measure and act upon changes in alertness.

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