MANAGING FATIGUE BY DROWSINESS DETECTION: CAN TECHNOLOGICAL PROMISES BE REALIZED?

This chapter reviews issues and research underway on the validation of technologies purporting to monitor motor vehicle operator alertness. Although such efforts have a long history, they have increased markedly in recent years, owing to the prevalence and seriousness of fatigue-related crashes, the unreliability of subjective estimates of sleepiness impairment, the potential of drowsiness-detection technologies as a component in alternatives to proscriptive hours of service, and the fact that technological advances have made the goal of on-line drowsiness detection feasible. Fatigue-management technologies fall into four broad categories: (1) readiness-to-perform and fitness-for-duty; (2) mathematical models joined with ambulatory technologies; (3) vehicle-based performance technologies; and (4) in-vehicle, online, operator status monitoring technologies. The latter have the greatest number of initiatives, spanning a wide range of biobehavioral variables. Scientific, implementation, and legal/policy criteria for drowsiness detection technologies are reviewed, with a discussion and brief review of a study illustrating the fundamental design and methodological requirements needed to establish scientific validity and reliability for drowsiness-detection technologies. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see IRRD abstract no. 895120.

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  MURDOCH UNIVERSITY. INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN SAFETY AND TRANSPORT

  SOUTH STREET
  MURDOCH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA  Australia  6150
• Authors:
  • DINGES, D F
  • Mallis, M M
• Conference:
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FATIGUE AND TRANSPORTATION, 3RD, 1998, FREMANTLE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 16 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Conferences; Continuous structures; Detection and identification; Detectors; Driver performance; Drivers; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Legislation; Measurement; Performance; Personality; Policy; Surveillance; Technology; Travelers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Responsibility
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 9006: Continuous; 9115: Detection; 1772: Driver; 6440: Error; 2222: Fatigue (human); 1556: Legislation; 6136: Measurement; 173: Policy; 2264: Responsibility; 2205: Skill (road user); 9101: Surveillance; 3855: Technology
• Subject Areas: Law; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00754013
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-86905-607-7
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 27 1998 12:00AM