Investigating Fatigue in a 16-Hour Simulated Workday Using Eye-Tracking in VR
Open Access
- 31 May 2026
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 1-3
Abstract
Non-standard work shifts (extended hours and night shifts) can impair vigilance and attention, increasing the risk of safety incidents. We present an ongoing study using VR-based eye-tracking to obtain oculometric measures, including saccade kinematics and gaze entropy, across a 16-hour simulated workday. Findings aim to clarify how cognitive states evolve over long shifts and to identify objective biomarkers of fatigue-related safety risk.Keywords
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