Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019).

Pilots regularly perform safety-critical tasks that require a high level of alertness and executive control. Fatiguex000D
and its negative effects on performance has been widely recognized as posing a serious risk to aviation safety.x000D
Consequently, regulations around the world are being put into place to ensure that the airliners implementx000D
fatigue risk management systems. Scientists at Thales Research & Technology (TRT) Canada (Quebec) havex000D
been working on such a system that collects physiological and performance data using wearable technologies tox000D
assess fatigue related parameters. Developing this capability will open a new commercial market to Thales andx000D
enhance their existing product lines. To successfully commercialize this new capability Thales requires thex000D
assistance of a third party researcher to measure and assess the correlation of physiological parameters withx000D
fatigure-induced performance impacts. Consequently, they recruited Dr. Klein and his university-basedx000D
laboratory to determine whether the system they are developing can measure fatigue and accurately anticipatex000D
its negative consequences for performance. Human participants recruited to the Klein lab will experimentx000D
induced fatigue by long, continued performance on carefully selected cognitive tasks. Over each 8 hour sessionx000D
performance on these tasks will be assessed, subjective reports of fatigue filled out, and measures of vigilancex000D
decrement will be regularly collected, concurrently to the monitoring of physiological parameters. Workingx000D
with the Thales team, Klein's team will develop a mathematical model that predicts fatigue levels andx000D
performance decrements from the physiological parameters.