Ubiquitous fatigue tracking of implicit and explicit data of communters within smart hyperspaces

As work hours have increased, there has been an increase in mistakes and hazardous situations among workers that travel frequently [3][9][10]. The focus of this paper is the role of fatigue amongst such workers and how to combat it using smart hyperspaces. Smart Hyperspace for Implicit and Explicit Logging of Human Data (SHIELHD) is a system that is design to enhance the capabilities of workers who travel between locations during their workday. The SHIELHD system is designed to pervasively monitor fatigue levels and call for help when users are in need, bringing assistance without requiring them to divert their attention from tasks. The SHIELHD design consists of a personal smart space, a smart vehicle space, and smart office space. For preliminary testing purposes, the initial prototype was implemented with a miniature electric vehicle and in an office setting. The vehicle smart space consists of coordinating reaction time test data and heartrate monitoring of the user with the intent of establishing patterns to predict fatigue levels. The office smart space system observes the relationship between heartrate and facial responses of the user to predict fatigue.