Objective Mental fatigue is a symptom of many neuromuscular disorders and acute diseases and is also closely associated with the long-lasting, repetitive and/or monotonous activities of normal everyday of healthy individuals. It is commonly defined as a state that involves mental and physical tiredness or exhaustion, with a vast range of symptoms including poor concentration, lack of motivation, tired eyes, yawning, and increased blinking. In neuromuscular rehabilitation, mental fatigue of a patient is closely related to effectiveness, usability and attractiveness of the rehabilitation process itself, reflecting possible non-compliance of the end-user, either due to frustrating, exhausting, boring, annoying or error-prone aspects of rehabilitation.The phenomenon of mental fatigue has been addressed by many studies, investigating the association between brain electrical activity using electroencephalography (EEG) and the onset of fatigue symptoms. Although highly attractive and informative, BNCI-based systems are very new and considered unreliable for use in clinical practice. On the other hand, more evident visual signs of mental fatigue, such as tired eyes, yawning, and increased blinking can be robustly detected by video-based monitoring of a person’s face but offer less direct measures of a mental fatigue.qFATIGUE proposes development and validation of a multimodal bio-feedback interface for simultaneous extraction of mental fatigue from video-based and EEG-based monitoring of a person. The main motivation builds on the need for improved understanding and assessment of motivation in rehabilitation patients during their daily exercise and their acceptance or rejection of different reward mechanisms. The proposed information extraction interface will be benchmarked in various experimental conditions, ranging from rich graphical support, such as in virtual environments, to simple visual and audio stimulations. Fields of science medical and health sciencesclinical medicinephysiotherapy Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG - Marie Curie Action: "Reintegration Grants" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-ERG - European Re-integration Grants (ERG) Coordinator UNIVERZA V MARIBORU Address Slomskov trg 15 2000 Maribor Slovenia See on map Region Slovenija Vzhodna Slovenija Podravska Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Damjan Zazula (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data
