Comfortable environments for mental work by suitable work-rest schedule: Mental fatigue and relaxation

IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 365-370

  Chen, L L ^a,b   Sugi, T ^b   Shirakawa, S ^c   Zou, J Z ^a   Nakamura, M ^b  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

COGNITIVE WROUGHT; EEG ANALYSES; EEG SIGNALS; EVALUATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN FATIGUES; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; MENTAL CALCULATIONS; MENTAL FATIGUES; MENTAL WROUGHT; NEUROLOGICAL SIGNALS; PRACTICAL; RELAXATION FACTORS; VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALES; WIDESPREAD APPLICATIONS; WORK EFFICIENCIES;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

EID: 54849428325     PISSN: 19354576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INDIN.2008.4618125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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