Blink Rate and Fatigue: A Literature Review on Air Traffic Control

John A. Stern's literature review examines blink rate as a psychophysiological measure for assessing fatigue, particularly in pilots and air traffic controllers. The review evaluates historical debates and synthesizes evidence on how time-on-task and other variables affect blink rate and blink closure duration. It originates from a study on gaze measures and performance in an air traffic control monitoring task.

Use Cases

• Training models to detect attentional lapses based on psychophysiological measures like blink rate.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of fatigue countermeasures based on literature-synthesized evidence.
• Studying the relationship between time-on-task and blink closure duration for cognitive load assessment.

Strengths

• Review synthesizes results from multiple investigations, substantiating core findings.
• Focuses on a specific, high-stakes application domain (aviation safety).
• Discusses methodological improvements for detecting impaired operator performance.

Limitations

• The dataset is a literature review, not primary experimental data.
• Row count and specific data formats are unknown.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the text.

Provenance

Source

John A. Stern

Collection Method

Literature review and synthesis of prior studies.