NCT04721392

Mental Fatigue and Industrial Work Performance

Mental Fatigue and Industrial Work Performance: The Influence of the Laevo Exoskeleton

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vrije Universiteit Brussel · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To investigate the effect of mental fatigue on industrial work performance, biomechanical determinants, (electro-)(psycho-) physiological measures and physical ergonomics. Additionally, the current project wants to evaluate whether or not the Laevo exoskeleton influences the aforementioned parameters when mental fatigue is acutely induced.

Conditions

• Healthy
• Mental Fatigue
• Industrial Work
• Robotics

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mental fatigue (Stroop task)	A modified Stroop task of approximately 60 min will be used in order to induce mental fatigue (MF). This will be based on their performance during the max test that was conducted during the familiarization session. In this task, which will be partitioned in 4 blocks of 468 stimuli, four colored words ("rood", "blauw", "groen" and "geel") will be presented one at a time on a computer screen. The participants will be required to indicate the color of the word, ignoring the meaning of the word itself.
OTHER	Control (documentary)	In the control task subjects will have to watch a documentary of 60 min on the same computer screen as the one used for the experimental trial. In order to avoid under- and over-arousal the subjects will have the opportunity to choose between several documentaries as proposed by the research team.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-08
• Primary completion: 2021-08-14
• Completion: 2021-08-14
• First posted: 2021-01-22
• Last updated: 2021-10-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium