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Toward Evaluation of a Student's Simulator Training Using Heart Rate Variability
Author(s) -
Murai Koji,
Hayashi Yuji
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
ieej transactions on electrical and electronic engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1931-4981
pISSN - 1931-4973
DOI - 10.1002/tee.20545
Subject(s) - workload , simulation , bridge (graph theory) , training (meteorology) , computer science , interval (graph theory) , work (physics) , engineering , medicine , mathematics , meteorology , mechanical engineering , surgery , physics , combinatorics , operating system
Mental workload is useful for evaluating the performance of a ship's navigator and a bridge teammate: a captain, a duty officer, a helmsman, or a pilot. The heart rate variability, the nasal temperature, and the salivary amylase activity predict performance well based on pre‐experiments. However, most of the research was carried out for a professional's skill. A student's skill has not been evaluated yet. In this work, we evaluate a student's heart rate variability (R–R interval) as he guides a ship from a narrow channel to an open sea for a simulator training, and consider simulator training effects. The experiment was carried out using a ship bridge simulator, not a real ship. We show that the R–R interval is a good index for the evaluation of the simulator training. Copyright © 2010 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.