Human Fatigue Estimate: Usage of Systems from Traffic in Buildings

Abstract

Fatigue monitoring is nowadays domain in traffic and transportation (e.g. system for driver's sleepness monitoring in cars or in trains). People working in offices are affected by fatigue too, but there is no general system that is able to monitor it. The fatigue in offices can cause decreasing work productivity or security risks in the industry. This review article compares the advantages and disadvantages of approaches used in traffic (e.g. an eye-movement tracking, driver activity) in internal environment (in buildings) with focus on people that work in offices with a computer. Because of the greater possibility of movement, it can not be enough. People are in offices longer than in cars and this causes that they are more affected by the quality of the internal environment. It should be useful to include this information in a system for fatigue monitoring. It can result in a system that is able to quantify fatigue level from both biological and environment variables.