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

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

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sleep Deprivation
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Sleep deprivation

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 22
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
      • Brigham and Women's Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 40 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Basic Science
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Sleep Deprivation; Sleep deprivation	Behavioral: Sleep deprivation

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Performance metrics on simulated robotic tasks - time	Over this 72 hour time frame there will be six assessments. Once on Day1, 4 times during the sleep deprivation on Days 2-3, and once on Day 4, the participant will perform computer simulations of "missions" with tasks. The time to complete tasks will be one of the metrics. The change in metrics related to length of time of awake will be assessed using longitudinal analysis methods.	72 hours
Performance metrics on simulated robotic tasks - number complete	Over this 72 hour time frame there will be six assessments Once on Day1, 4 times during the sleep deprivation on Days 2-3, and once on Day 4, the participant will perform computer simulations of "missions" with tasks. The number of completed tasks will be one of the metrics.The change in metrics related to length of time of awake will be assessed using longitudinal analysis methods.	72 hours
Performance metrics on simulated robotic tasks - resources uses	Over this 72 hour time frame there will be six assessments Once on Day1, 4 times during the sleep deprivation on Days 2-3, and once on Day 4, the participant will perform computer simulations of "missions" with tasks. The resources used will be one of the metrics.The change in metrics related to length of time of awake will be assessed using longitudinal analysis methods.	72 hours

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Collaborators: National Space Biomedical Research Institute

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 31, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): May 31, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 18, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 26, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): April 29, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 11, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 9, 2018
• Last Verified: July 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Nervous System Diseases; Dyssomnias; Sleep Wake Disorders; Neurologic Manifestations; Sleep Deprivation
• Other Study ID Numbers: HFP04201