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http://dx.doi.org/10.12673/jant.2017.21.1.90

Air Traffic Controllers' Fatigue and Stress based on Heart Rate Measurement  

Park, Jin-han (School of Air Transport and Logistics, Korea Aerospace University)
An, Deok-bae (School of Air Transport and Logistics, Korea Aerospace University)
Baik, Hojong (School of Air Transport and Logistics, Korea Aerospace University)
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Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology / v.21, no.1, 2017 , pp. 90-98 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper is concerned with air traffic controllers' fatigue and stress that they experience during their daily job particularly as being shift workers. Previous researches reveal that the controllers' fatigue and stress increase by several factors including time spent at work, traffic intensity, visibility, etc. The researches also indicate that air traffic controllers' fatigue and stress can be reasonably surrogated by their heart rate. We set three hypotheses relating the influencing factors and the fatigue and stress represented by the heart rates. Using wrist bands, air traffic controllers' heart rates at various situations are collected at Choongju airport. The hypothetical tests explicitly confirm that the heart rate is highly correlated with the traffic level and the time spent at work. In particular, it be shown that even when handling the same traffic level, air traffic controllers' stress level increases as the time they spent at work increases.
Keywords
Air traffic control; Controllers' fatigue and stress; Heart rate;
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