This project will be supervised by Prof Tom Gedeon (tom.gedeon@anu.edu.au), Dr Zakir Hossein, Ms Amany Al Luhaybi and Dr Yonghui Liu.
Use a medium-fidelity simulator protocol with ~45 minutes of boring/highway driving to elicit loss of attention / cognitive fatigue (zoning out, mind-wandering, automatic driving), explicitly distinct from pushing participants into dangerous sleepiness. Collect in-cab face video and driving telemetry; optionally add low-burden physiological signals. Add periodic experience-sampling probes (very occasional “where was your attention?” prompts) to provide labels without breaking the entire task. Define a FACS-based coding scheme plus complementary visual markers (eye metrics, head micro-movements, gaze behavior). Train temporal models (sequence models over FACS/eye/head features) to detect transitions alert → reduced attention → (if observed) early drowsiness, and attempt to detect early-warning thresholds.