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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Corporate Authors:
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY. INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN SAFETY AND TRANSPORT
SOUTH STREET
MURDOCH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Australia 6150 -
Authors:
- DINGES, D F
- Mallis, M M
- Conference:
- 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