Can We Use EOG to Identify When Attention Switches Away from the Outside World to Focus on Our Mental Thoughts?

Anaïs Servais, Anaïs Servais, Raphaël Poveda, Hanna Gerony, Emmanuel Barbeau, Christophe Hurter

2022

Abstract

Aviation incidents resulting from attentional failures continue to occur. Attention is a limited resource and perceptual decoupling occurs when the attention switches away from the outside world to focus on the inner mental world. This phenomenon dramatically decreases visual perception, but is common and frequent since human beings spend nearly half of their time immersed in their thoughts, implying numerous switches between the outside and the inner world each day. We believe that detecting these attentional switches in air traffic controllers could improve safety. We suggest gaze aversion as a potential behavioural objective marker and therefore aim to find a method to measure gaze aversion in the lab. Our preliminary study tested EOG and provided encouraging results since movements of gaze aversion differed significantly from visual saccades in terms of amplitude and velocity, two characteristics measurable with the EOG signal. Gaze aversions are faster and related to wider movements. This opens up great perspectives in aviation since the EOG is a non-invasive method.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Servais A., Poveda R., Gerony H., Barbeau E. and Hurter C. (2022). Can We Use EOG to Identify When Attention Switches Away from the Outside World to Focus on Our Mental Thoughts?. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems - Volume 1: ICCAS; ISBN 978-989-758-657-6, SciTePress, pages 24-29. DOI: 10.5220/0011950500003622

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iccas22,
author={Anaïs Servais and Raphaël Poveda and Hanna Gerony and Emmanuel Barbeau and Christophe Hurter},
title={Can We Use EOG to Identify When Attention Switches Away from the Outside World to Focus on Our Mental Thoughts?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems - Volume 1: ICCAS},
year={2022},
pages={24-29},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011950500003622},
isbn={978-989-758-657-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft Systems - Volume 1: ICCAS
TI - Can We Use EOG to Identify When Attention Switches Away from the Outside World to Focus on Our Mental Thoughts?
SN - 978-989-758-657-6
AU - Servais A.
AU - Poveda R.
AU - Gerony H.
AU - Barbeau E.
AU - Hurter C.
PY - 2022
SP - 24
EP - 29
DO - 10.5220/0011950500003622
PB - SciTePress