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We explore the relationship between attention and action, and focus on human reaction to stress in the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) based Human Computer Interface (HCI) environment aiming to measure the reaction time and warn against attention deficit. To provoke human reaction we simulate several provocative situations mimicking real-world accidents while working on the industrial production line. During the simulation of the industrial line control, the subjects are presented on screen with affective visual stimuli imitating the possible accident and the reaction of subjects is tracked with a gaze tracker. We measure a subjects’ response time from stimuli onset to the eye fixation (gaze time) and to the pressing of “line stop” button (press time). The reaction time patterns are analysed with respect to subject’s gender, age, colour and position of stop sign. The results confirm the significance of gender, age, sign colour and position factors.
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Raudonis, V., Maskeliūnas, R., Stankevičius, K., Damaševičius, R. (2017). Gender, Age, Colour, Position and Stress: How They Influence Attention at Workplace?. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10408. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62404-4_19
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