Abstract
In our busy daily life, we often have the feeling of being exhausted, accompanied with a sense of performance degradation and increase of discomfort in the execution of even simple tasks. This often takes place in the workplace and in a silent way, influencing our productivity, our performance the number of errors or the quality of our production. This paper details a chair to be used in workplace environments that is sensitive to the onset of fatigue. Based on built-in accelerometers it recognizes signs of discomfort, which may be related to mental fatigue, to point out moments when an individual should consider taking a pause or a rest. This chair complements a previously developed software for the assessment of mental fatigue from the analysis of the individual’s interaction with the computer.
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The website of CogSpeed is available at https://www.cogspeed.com/.
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The website of Axivity is available at http://axivity.com/v2/.
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This work is part-funded by ERDF - European Regional Development Fund through the COMPETE Programme (operational programme for competitiveness) and by National Funds through the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-028980 (PTDC/EEI-SII/1386/2012) and project PEst-OE/EEI/UI0752/2014.
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Pimenta, A., Carneiro, D., Novais, P., Neves, J. (2015). A Discomfort-Sensitive Chair for Pointing Out Mental Fatigue. In: Mohamed, A., Novais, P., Pereira, A., Villarrubia González, G., Fernández-Caballero, A. (eds) Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 376. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19695-4_6
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