In our busy daily life, we often have the feeling of being exhausted, accompanied with a sense of performance degradation and increase of discomfort in the execution of even simple tasks. This often takes place in the workplace and in a silent way, influencing our productivity, our performance the number of errors or the quality of our production. This paper details a chair to be used in workplace environments that is sensitive to the onset of fatigue. Based on built-in accelerometers it recognizes signs of discomfort, which may be related to mental fatigue, to point out moments when an individual should consider taking a pause or a rest. This chair complements a previously developed software for the assessment of mental fatigue from the analysis of the individual's interaction with the computer.
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Pimenta, A., Carneiro, D., Novais, P., & Neves, J. (2015). A discomfort-sensitive chair for pointing out mental fatigue. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Vol. 376, pp. 57–64). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19695-4_6
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