Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
38(1)
Published: Sept. 25, 2023
Labor
shortage
and
low
labor
productivity
are
critical
issues
in
the
construction
industry.
Robotics,
as
a
powerful
technology
to
improve
digitization
era,
is
being
used
assist
addressing
these
problems.
Particularly
recent
years,
interest
robotics
research
has
risen
remarkably.
To
gain
deeper
understanding
of
this
burgeoning
field,
study
provides
bibliometric
analysis
498
related
papers
retrieved
from
WoS
(Web
Science).
Performance
science
mapping
were
paper
identify
trends,
relationship
among
authors,
top
publication
sources,
regional
activities,
well
knowledge
base
dominant
sub-fields.
The
results
indicated
that
number
focusing
on
been
continuously
growing
since
2013.
"Automation,"
"system,"
"design"
have
most
addressed
topics
robotics.
findings
indicative
identifying
deficiencies
existing
provide
directions
for
future
research.
Those
include
greater
attention
paid
experimental
on-site
robots,
while
ignoring
impacts
practical
situations,
development
off-site
robots
needs
more
support.
For
theoretical
research,
there
lack
studies
human–robot
collaboration
workflow
management
models.
Therefore,
would
be
valuable
providing
practitioners
researchers
with
better
perspective
facilitating
building
intellectual
wealth
Automation in Construction,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
166, P. 105674 - 105674
Published: Aug. 7, 2024
The
application
of
the
Electroencephalogram
(EEG)
technology
shows
promises
in
uncovering
workers'
cognitive
processes
affecting
safety
performance
construction.
Despite
increasing
interest
research,
it
is
yet
challenging
to
ensure
coherence
and
mitigate
biases
when
interpreting
cognition
from
EEG
data.
This
paper
presents
a
comprehensive
review
applications
construction
categorising
aims,
methodologies,
experiment
design,
data
processing
methods
evaluation
approaches.
Furthermore,
identifies
several
critical
avenues
for
future
including
deeper
exploration
dynamics
safety-critical
environments,
integration
real-time
monitoring,
longitudinal
analysis
factors,
cultural
gender
influences
on
practices,
addressing
special
psychological
conditions.
emphasises
importance
considering
ethical
implications,
user
acceptability,
practical
deployment
challenges.
Overall,
makes
effort
towards
guiding
effective
research
safer
practices.
IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
7(1)
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
ABSTRACT
Cognitive
workload
(CWL)
assessment
has
gained
traction
in
Industry
4.0
and
5.0,
where
human‐machine
interactions
are
becoming
more
intricate.
However,
there
is
a
lack
of
comprehensively
addressed
CWL
by
considering
methodologies,
technologies,
case
studies.
The
present
work
reviews
70
articles
related
to
the
assessment.
review
identifies
five
main
methodologies
for
assessment:
physiological
measures
(e.g.
EEG,
HRV,
eye‐tracking),
subjective
evaluation
NASA‐TLX),
performance
evaluation,
cognitive
load
models,
multimodal
approaches.
analysis
shows
an
increasing
trend
towards
approaches
that
combine
methods
with
obtained
from
electroencephalography,
eye‐tracking,
heart
rate
monitoring
devices.
Additionally,
emerging
technologies
such
as
augmented
reality
collaborative
robots
increasingly
considered
studies
address
current
environments.
Results
reveal
significant
advancements
methods,
particularly
emphasising
real‐time
capabilities
context‐specific
applications.
Case
underscore
key
role
management
assembly,
maintenance,
construction
tasks,
demonstrating
its
impact
on
performance,
safety,
adaptability
dynamic
This
establishes
framework
advancing
research
addressing
methodological
limitations
proposing
future
directions,
including
development
personalised,
adaptive
systems
management.
Automation in Construction,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
162, P. 105391 - 105391
Published: March 23, 2024
Construction
robotics
has
emerged
as
a
leading
technology
in
the
construction
industry.
This
paper
conducts
an
innovative
dual-track
quantitative
comprehensive
method
to
analyze
current
literature
and
assess
future
trends.
First,
bibliometric
review
of
955
journal
articles
published
between
1974
2023
was
performed,
exploring
keywords,
journals,
countries,
clusters.
Furthermore,
neural
topic
model
based
on
BERTopic
addresses
modeling
repetition
issues.
The
study
identifies
building
information
(BIM),
human–robot
collaboration
(HRC),
deep
reinforcement
learning
(DRL)
"three
pillars"
field.
Additionally,
we
systematically
reviewed
relevant
nested
symbiotic
relationships.
outcome
this
is
twofold:
first,
findings
provide
qualitative
scientific
guidance
for
research
trends;
second,
analysis
methodology
simultaneously
stimulates
critical
thinking
about
other
similarly
trending
topics
characterized
avoid
high
degree
homogeneity
corpus
overlap.
Journal of Transportation Safety & Security,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 24
Published: March 3, 2025
Ensuring
safety
around
roadway
work
zones
is
difficult
which
evident
by
the
fact
that
despite
considerable
measures,
drivers
and
workers
are
still
exposed
to
risks.
An
incomplete
understanding
of
driver
behaviors
one
contributors
accidents
incidents,
prompting
establishment
behavioral
rules
a
thorough
assessment
awareness
enhance
on
roadways.
Advancements
in
digital
technologies
combined
with
major
developments
traffic
simulation
tools,
including
eye-tracking
Car
Learning
Act
(CARLA)
platform,
provides
safe
realistic
environments
virtually
simulate
diverse
hazardous
zone
scenarios
capture
driver's
without
actually
exposing
them
real-world
This
study
presents
multi-module
immersive
car
interactive
driving
platform
authentic
reactions
unstructured
zones,
leveraging
eye
tracking
VR
CARLA
co-simulator.
Two
three
cases
configurations
were
implemented
for
conducting
user
studies,
wherein
while
traversing
was
assessed
through
gaze
duration
fixation
ratios.
The
findings
indicate
prioritize
their
attention
exhibiting
risky
over
warning
signs,
increased
emphasis
these
individuals
signage
existence.
Warning
signs
enhanced
normal
workers;
however,
conditions,
drivers'
disproportionately
diverted
workers,
diminishing
focus
workers.
Different
patterns
observed
based
how
notified
about
suggest
multi-type
notification
systems,
such
as
dynamic
displays,
wearable
devices
auditory
alerts,
human
notifiers
at
center,
be
keep
aware
Applied Sciences,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(6), P. 3317 - 3317
Published: March 18, 2025
Human–robot
collaboration
(HRC)
is
increasingly
prevalent
across
various
industries,
promising
to
boost
productivity,
efficiency,
and
safety.
As
robotics
technology
advances
takes
on
more
complex
tasks
traditionally
performed
by
humans,
the
nature
of
work
demands
workers
are
evolving.
This
shift
emphasizes
need
critically
integrate
human
factors
into
these
interactions,
as
effectiveness
safety
systems
highly
dependent
how
cooperate
with
understand
robots.
A
significant
challenge
in
this
domain
lack
a
consensus
most
efficient
way
operationalize
assess
mental
workload,
which
crucial
for
optimizing
HRC.
In
systematic
literature
review,
we
analyze
different
psychophysiological
measures
that
can
reliably
capture
differentiate
varying
degrees
workload
HRC
settings.
The
findings
highlight
standardized
methodologies
assessment
enhance
models.
Ultimately,
aims
guide
both
theorists
practitioners
creating
sophisticated,
safe,
frameworks
providing
comprehensive
overview
existing
pointing
out
areas
further
study.
Frontiers in Neuroergonomics,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
6
Published: April 25, 2025
Mental
Workload
(MWL)
is
a
concept
that
has
garnered
increasing
interest
in
professional
settings
but
remains
challenging
to
define
consensually.
The
literature
reports
plurality
of
operational
definitions
and
assessment
methods,
with
no
established
unified
framework.
This
review
aims
identify
objective
validated
measurement
methods
for
evaluating
MWL
real-world
work
contexts.
Particular
attention
given
neurophysiological
recognized
their
efficiency
robustness,
enabling
real-time
without
disrupting
operator
activity.
To
conduct
this
analysis,
systematic
search
was
performed
three
databases
(PubMed,
ScienceDirect,
IEEEXplore),
covering
studies
published
from
inception
until
March
30,
2023.
Selection
criteria
included
research
focusing
on
its
derivatives,
as
well
measures
applied
conditions.
An
initial
screening
based
titles
abstracts
followed
by
an
in-depth
review,
assisted
the
bibliometric
software
Rayyan.
explored
concepts,
study
results
were
compiled
into
synthesis
table.
Ultimately,
35
included,
highlighting
diversity
tools
used
field
settings,
often
combined
subjective
assessments.
Furthermore,
key
physiological
indicators
such
ECG,
eye
data,
EEG
relationship
between
metrics
those
uses
measure
stress
are
emphasized
discussed.
A
better
understanding
these
interrelations
could
refine
respective
impacts
help
anticipate
consequences
workers'
mental
health
safety.