Publications by authors named "Yutao Kang"

Lack of situation awareness (SA) is the primary cause of human errors when operating forklifts, so determining the SA level of the forklift operator is crucial to the safety of forklift operations. An EEG recognition approach of forklift operator SA in actual settings was presented in order to address the issues with invasiveness, subjectivity, and intermittency of existing measuring methods. In this paper, we conducted a field experiment that mimicked a typical forklift operation scenario to verify the differences in EEG states of forklift operators with different SA levels and investigate the correlation of multi-band combination features of each brain region of forklift operators with SA.

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This study investigated differences in eye movement indicators among forklift operators with different situation awareness (SA) and the relationship between eye movement indicators and the SA of forklift operators to verify the effectiveness of eye movement tracking in assessing SA and the factors affecting operators' SA for improving forklift operation safety. An eye movement tracking system was used to collect eye movement data from 15 forklift operators while they performed a series of forklift tasks. The SA global assessment technique (SAGAT) was used to determine the SA score of each operator.

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To maintain situation awareness (SA) when exposed to emergencies during pilotage, a pilot needs to selectively allocate attentional resources to perceive critical status information about ships and environments. Although it is important to continuously monitor a pilot's SA, its relationship with attention is still not fully understood in ship pilotage. This study performs bridge simulation experiments that include vessel departure, navigation in the fairway, encounters, poor visibility, and anchoring scenes with 13 pilots (mean = 11.

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Situation awareness (SA) of pilots' unsafe behavior can ensure safety onboard. Thus, the cognitive mechanism that controls the SA leading to unsafe behavior must be articulated. This study employs the SA model and theory of planned behavior (TPB) to articulate a quantitative model of ship safe piloting.

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