Avoiding involuntary sleep during civil air operations: Validation of a wrist-worn alertness device

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 847-856

  Wright, Nicola ^a   Powell, David ^b   McGown, Amanda ^a   Broadbent, Elizabeth ^c   Loft, Patricia ^c  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b Air New Zealand Ltd   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alertness device; EEG; Eye movements; Sleepiness; Wrist activity

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ALARM MONITOR; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEVICE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SLEEP; SOMNOLENCE; SPACE FLIGHT; WRIST;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AVIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP; SOFTWARE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WRIST;

EID: 24644465513     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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