The Impact of Mind-Wandering on Driller's Situation Awareness in Drilling Operations: Based on SAGAT and EEG

IF 2.2 3区工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI:10.1002/hfm.70010

Su Hao, Xu Lifei, Xie Ruiying, Wang Jian, Jiang Jiaxin, Fan Siping, Wang Xiaoqin, Qing Xin, Zeng Yuhang

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Abstract

In the high-risk environment of drilling operations, mind-wandering is a significant contributor to unsafe behavior and reduced safety performance. Despite its critical impact, few studies have focused on the cognitive characteristics of mind-wandering and its influence on situation awareness (SA). This study sought to bridge the research divide by utilizing electroencephalography (EEG) to explore the link between mind-wandering and brain activity, with the objective of establishing an objective means to monitor drillers’ mind-wandering. Utilizing the Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique (SAGAT) in a simulated drilling monitoring task, we compared the states of 50 natural gas drillers before and after their shifts. Brainwave data were recorded and categorized into pre-shift and post-shift groups. Our analysis revealed a significant increase in mind-wandering post-shift, coupled with a notable decline in SA. This effect was especially pronounced during complex tasks, such as gas kick simulation videos, where response times increased and delta and alpha band power in the frontal lobes significantly rose. These findings suggest that mind-wandering adversely affects SA, particularly in complex task scenarios. The identified neural indicators offer objective measures of drillers’ cognitive states and can inform attention training and fatigue management strategies. By providing safety managers with real-time insights into workers’ attention, mind-wandering detection can help mitigate errors and enhance operational safety in high-risk environments.

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钻井作业中走神对司钻态势感知的影响——基于SAGAT和EEG

在钻井作业的高风险环境中，走神是造成不安全行为和降低安全性能的重要因素。尽管走神具有重要的作用，但很少有研究关注走神的认知特征及其对情境意识的影响。本研究试图通过利用脑电图（EEG）来探索走神与大脑活动之间的联系，从而弥合研究分歧，目的是建立一种客观的手段来监测钻井工人的走神。在模拟钻井监测任务中，我们利用态势感知全球评估技术（SAGAT），比较了50名天然气钻探人员轮班前后的状态。脑波数据被记录下来并分为轮班前组和轮班后组。我们的分析显示，轮班后走神显著增加，同时SA显著下降。这种效果在复杂的任务中尤其明显，比如气体踢模拟视频，反应时间增加，额叶的δ和α波段功率显著上升。这些发现表明，走神对SA有不利影响，尤其是在复杂的任务场景中。识别出的神经指标可以客观地衡量钻井人员的认知状态，并为注意力训练和疲劳管理策略提供信息。通过向安全管理人员提供对工人注意力的实时洞察，走神检测可以帮助减少错误，提高高风险环境中的操作安全性。

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Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries 管理科学-工程：制造

CiteScore

5.20

自引率

8.30%

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审稿时长

6.0 months

期刊介绍： The purpose of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries is to facilitate discovery, integration, and application of scientific knowledge about human aspects of manufacturing, and to provide a forum for worldwide dissemination of such knowledge for its application and benefit to manufacturing industries. The journal covers a broad spectrum of ergonomics and human factors issues with a focus on the design, operation and management of contemporary manufacturing systems, both in the shop floor and office environments, in the quest for manufacturing agility, i.e. enhancement and integration of human skills with hardware performance for improved market competitiveness, management of change, product and process quality, and human-system reliability. The inter- and cross-disciplinary nature of the journal allows for a wide scope of issues relevant to manufacturing system design and engineering, human resource management, social, organizational, safety, and health issues. Examples of specific subject areas of interest include: implementation of advanced manufacturing technology, human aspects of computer-aided design and engineering, work design, compensation and appraisal, selection training and education, labor-management relations, agile manufacturing and virtual companies, human factors in total quality management, prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, ergonomics of workplace, equipment and tool design, ergonomics programs, guides and standards for industry, automation safety and robot systems, human skills development and knowledge enhancing technologies, reliability, and safety and worker health issues.