Fast, Efficient, and Objective Detection of Sleepiness

描述（由申请人提供）：这项提议的努力汇集了一个研究团队，他们对开发一种快速、有效、安全和客观地测量个人困倦的设备感兴趣。这项工作将采用一种已建立的基于精神运动的计算机任务，称为关键跟踪任务（CTT），该任务在过去已被证明对疲劳和酒精敏感，并将其应用于检测个人困倦的任务。由于研究表明，受酒精或困倦影响的人表现出相似的行为特征，研究小组认为，CTT的使用可以应用于困倦的检测。为了实现这一目标，CTT将针对该应用程序进行更新，并对10名健康成年人（5男5女）进行CTT测试，并使用一系列目前公认的睡眠检测措施（如爱普沃斯嗜睡量表、视觉模拟量表、精神运动警觉性测试等）进行测试，如果这些任务之间存在高度相关性的话。然后，这项研究的最终结果将是一个独立的商业电子产品，可以更容易地自我管理，并将快速客观地检测个人的困倦。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposed effort brings together a research team interested in developing a device for the fast, efficient, secure and objective measure of sleepiness in individuals. This effort will take an established psychomotor computer based task known as the Critical Tracking Task (CTT) that has been shown in the past to be sensitive to fatigue and alcohol and apply it to the task of detecting sleepiness in individuals. Since research has shown that persons under the influence of alcohol or sleepiness display similar behavioral characteristics, the research teams believes that use of the CTT can be applied to the detection of sleepiness. To accomplish this, the CTT will be updated for this application and a population of 10 healthy adults (5 male and 5 female) will be tested on both the CTT and with a battery of currently accepted sleep detection measures such as the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Visual Analogue Scale, Psychomotor Vigilance Test, etc. if a high correlation between these tasks exists, then the end result of this research will be a standalone commercial electronic product that can be more easily self administered and will quickly and objectively detect sleepiness in individuals.