Abstract:
:A field-usable sleepiness tester could reduce sleepiness related accidents. 15 subjects' postural steadiness was measured with a Nintendo(®) Wii Fit balance board every hour for 24 h. Body sway was quantified with complexity index, CI, and the correlation between CI and alertness predicted by a three-process model of sleepiness was calculated. The CI group average was 8.9 ± 1.3 for alert and 7.9 ± 1.4 for sleep deprived subjects (p < 0.001, ρ = 0.94). The Wii Fit board detects the impairment of postural steadiness. This may allow large scale sleepiness testing outside the laboratory setting.
journal_name
Med Eng Physjournal_title
Medical engineering & physicsauthors
Tietäväinen A,Gates FK,Meriläinen A,Mandel JE,Hæggström Edoi
10.1016/j.medengphy.2013.08.007subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-12-01 00:00:00pages
1850-3issue
12eissn
1350-4533issn
1873-4030pii
S1350-4533(13)00181-1journal_volume
35pub_type
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