Effectiveness of mobile technology in managing fatigue: balert app

The performance of professional tasks with a high cognitive, emotional, and even physiological demand, can cause a state of mental fatigue, which implies attentional alterations, greater errors in the tasks performed and a decrease in personal and work productivity caused by a deterioration of the c...

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Autores: Vega Marcos, Ricardo de la, Anabalón, Hector, Jara, Cristian, Villamil Cabello, Eduardo, Chervellino, Miguel, Calvo Rodríguez, Álvaro
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/702878
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/702878
https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.704955
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:mental fatigue
heart rate variability
stroop
laboral fatigue
APP
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Resumo:The performance of professional tasks with a high cognitive, emotional, and even physiological demand, can cause a state of mental fatigue, which implies attentional alterations, greater errors in the tasks performed and a decrease in personal and work productivity caused by a deterioration of the cognitive control processes. The present study presents a mobile phone application named BAlert that allows monitoring and controlling the body's fatigue processes based on the scores obtained in the Stroop effect and the heart rate variability. A pilot study has been carried out with a sample of 63 adults who have used the application a total of 942 times. The results allow us to classify the subjects, by logistic regression analysis, in their fatigue levels in 74% of the occasions. These results highlight the importance of this mobile application to control work fatigue processes in different possible scenarios (military, health, sports, business, etc.)