Assessment of Mental Fatigue in Healthy Participants During Extended BCI-HMD Sessions

Abstract

Prolonged use of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) with virtual reality (VR) via head-mounted displays (HMDs) induces mental fatigue, potentially impairing neurorehabilitation. This study examines EEG-based fatigue markers in healthy participants during extended BCI-HMD sessions. Fatigue was classified using N-way Partial Least Squares (N-PLS) with linear discriminant analysis, achieving 82.42% (± 7.5) accuracy. N-PLS components revealed spatial- spectral patterns in occipital and sensorimotor alpha activity. Temporal trajectories indicated progressive fatigue accumulation during sessions. Results demonstrate the feasibility of EEG-based fatigue monitoring for optimizing BCI-HMD post-stroke neurorehabilitation.


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