On the potential of pupil size as a metric of physical fatigue during a repeated handle push/pull task.

Autor: Biondi FN; Human Systems Lab, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Electronic address: francesco.biondi@uwindsor.ca., Graf F; Atlas Copco Inc., Stockholm, Sweden., Cort J; Occupational Simulation and Ergonomics Lab, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Applied ergonomics [Appl Ergon] 2023 Jul; Vol. 110, pp. 104025. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 16.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2023.104025
Abstrakt: Force output and muscle activity represent the gold standards for measuring physical fatigue. This study explores using ocular metrics for tracking changes in physical fatigue during the completion of a repeated handle push/pull task. Participants completed this task over three trials, and pupil size was recorded by means of a head-mounted eye-tracker. Blink frequency was also measured. Force impulse and maximum peak force were used as ground-truth measures of physical fatigue. As expected, a reduction in peak force and impulse was observed over time as participants became more fatigued. More interestingly, pupil size was also found to decrease from trial 1 through trial 3. No changes in blink rate were found with increasing physical fatigue. While exploratory in nature, these findings add to the sparse literature exploring the use of ocular metrics in Ergonomics. They also advance the use of pupil size as a possible future alternative for physical fatigue detection.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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