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Mental Fatigue Quantification by Physiological and Neurophysiological Techniques: An Overview

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Mental fatigue needs to be an essential part of industrial engineering and ergonomics. Risk assessment techniques like OCRA, REBA, etc., digital human modeling like DELMIA, RAMSIS, etc. and work station design in industry, etc., all should incorporate mental fatigue as a basic constituent. This is possible only if quantitative value of the mental fatigue is available. This is a major challenge to researchers and a focused effort towards this end is underway. Procedures of quantification of mental fatigue based on physiological and neurophysiological techniques right from their inception to date have been discussed in this paper. The usage of weighted mental fatigue indices so developed for mental and physical work also has been discussed.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India

    Rajesh Kumar & A. K. Lall

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    Parveen Kalra

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  1. Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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  2. National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Vihar Lake, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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  3. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Kumar, R., Kalra, P., Lall, A.K. (2018). Mental Fatigue Quantification by Physiological and Neurophysiological Techniques: An Overview. In: Ray, G., Iqbal, R., Ganguli, A., Khanzode, V. (eds) Ergonomics in Caring for People. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4980-4_40

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