Quantifying and Developing Countermeasures for the Effect of Fatigue-Related Stressors on Automation Use and Trust During Robotic Supervisory Control

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep Deprivation

Treatments: Behavioral: Sleep deprivation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02755493

HFP04201

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project proposes to both develop and test adaptive automation countermeasures for the effects of stressors such as sleep deprivation (SD) on human performance related to robotic tasks, and investigate the relationship between human trust and appropriate use of these countermeasures.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy by history, physical exam, laboratory evaluations of urine and blood, electrocardiogram (ECG), psychological screening, and self-reported sleep quality.
• engineering or computer programming experience

Exclusion criteria

• color blind
• pregnant or nursing
• using any prescription or non-prescription medications, caffeine, alcohol or tobacco for the three weeks prior to beginning the inpatient experiments

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 1 patient group

Sleep Deprivation

Experimental group

Description:

Sleep deprivation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sleep deprivation