ReaLAPSE: Neural makers of lapsing attention during sustained real-world task performance

人们仍然经常在悲剧事故中失去生命或生计，其根本原因是疏忽。利用当今可用的先进技术，我们应该能够开发防止这些事故的辅助系统。一种开创性的方法是密切监测生理信号的变化，如心率、凝视和大脑活动，这些信号可以客观地读出当前的注意力水平。这些读数的突然变化可以用来对即将发生的失误发出警告。然而，我们还有很长的路要走，以了解哪些信号对大多数用户可靠地工作，并在一系列日常情况下。为此，我提出了一个项目，该项目将在一大批来自各行各业的成年志愿者中研究一种有希望的、新颖的不同信号组合。在三个系列的研究中，我将首先在实验室实验中寻找最有用的生理标记，让人类参与者执行1-2小时的高要求任务。第二项研究将测试有希望的标记是否也可以测量并应用于现实世界的情况。最后，是否可以通过音频警告在短期内预防失误的问题将在第三项研究中讨论。该项目还将涉及与行业合作伙伴FC实验室有限公司的合作。他们的可穿戴式大脑活动监测器原型将作为一种测量方式添加到所有实验中。

Too often still, people lose their lives or livelihoods in tragic accidents that have their root causes in lapses of attention. Leveraging the technological advances available to us nowadays, we should be able to develop assistance systems that prevent these accidents. One pioneering way forward is to closely monitor changes in physiological signals, such as heart rate gaze, and brain activity, which provide an objective readout of current attention levels. Sudden changes in these readings could be used to issue warnings about imminent lapses. However, we still have a long way to go to understand which of these signals work reliably for most users, and across a range of everyday situations. To this end, I propose a project that will look into a promising and novel combination of different signals across a large group of adult volunteers, recruited from all trades of life. In a series of three studies, I will search for the most useful physiological markers in a lab-based experiment first, with human participants performing a demanding task for 1-2 hours. A second study will then test whether promising markers can also be measured and applied in a real-world situation. Finally, the question of whether lapses can be prevented in the short term by giving audio warnings will be addressed in a third study. This project will also involve a collaboration with an industry partner, FC Laboratories, Ltd. Their prototype wearable brain activity monitor will be added as a measurement modality to all experiments.