BlueEyes system


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ABSTRACT

Human error is still one of the most frequent causes of catastrophes and ecological disasters. The main reason is that the
monitoring systems concern only the state of the processes whereas human contribution to the overall performance of the
system is left unsupervised. Since the control instruments are automated to a large extent, a human – operator becomes a
passive observer of the supervised system, which results in weariness and vigilance drop.

INTRODUCTION

BlueEyes system provides technical means for monitoring and recording the operator’s basic
physiological parameters. The most important parameter is saccadic activity, which enables the system
to monitor the status of the operator’s visual attention along with head acceleration, which accompanies
large displacement of the visual axis. Complex industrial environment can create a danger of exposing
the operator to toxic substances, which can affect his cardiac, circulatory and pulmonary systems. Thus,
on the grounds of plethysmographic signal taken from the forehead skin surface, the system computes
heart beat rate and blood oxygenation.

What Is Blue Eyes?

· BLUE EYES is a technology, which aims at creating computational machines that have
perceptual and sensory abilities like those of human beings.
· The basic idea behind this technology is to give computer human power.
· For example, we can understand humans’ emotional state by his facial expressions. If we add
these perceptual abilities to computers, we would enable them to work together with human
beings as intimate partners.
· It provides technical means for monitoring and recording human-operator’s physiological
condition.

Key features of the system

· Visual attention monitoring (eye motility analysis).
· Physiological condition monitoring (pulse rate, blood oxygenation).
· Operator’s position detection (standing, lying).
· Wireless data acquisition using Bluetooth technology.

CONCLUSION

BlueEyes need for a real-time monitoring system for a human operator. The approach is innovative
since it helps supervise the operator not the process, as it is in presently available solutions. This
system in its commercial release will help avoid potential threats resulting from human errors, such as
weariness, oversight, tiredness or temporal indisposition.