Psychomotor impairment detection via finger interactions with a computer keyboard during natural typing.

ABSTRACT: Modern digital devices and appliances are capable of monitoring the timing of button presses, or finger interactions in general, with a sub-millisecond accuracy. However, the massive amount of high resolution temporal information that these devices could collect is currently being discarded. Multiple studies have shown that the act of pressing a button triggers well defined brain areas which are known to be affected by motor-compromised conditions. In this study, we demonstrate that the daily interaction with a computer keyboard can be employed as means to observe and potentially quantify psychomotor impairment. We induced a psychomotor impairment via a sleep inertia paradigm in 14 healthy subjects, which is detected by our classifier with an Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) of 0.93/0.91. Th

SUBMITTER: Giancardo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5381750 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature