Self-monitoring Performance

Dorrian J, Lamond N, Holmes AL, Burgess HJ, Roach GD, Fletcher A., Dawson D. The ability to self-monitor performance during a week of simulated night shifts. Sleep 2003 26(7) 871-877. 

The relationship between subjective sleepiness and performance is only one method of examining potential relationships between how individuals perceive the effects of sleep deprivation on their ability to function. Another method is to examine how capable sleep-deprived individuals are of self-monitoring their level of performance. As with subjective sleepiness, the ability to accurately monitor performance under sleep-deprived conditions is an important issue for many workers in our society. Unfortunately, few studies have addressed this particular topic. 

Historically, the literature examining self-monitoring of performance has led to two areas of research. One line of research has examined confidence in rating and judgment accuracy in response to performance on different types of tasks (e.g., Refs. 37,38). The second line of research has focused on the relationship between confidence assessment of performance and actual performance (39,40). 

Baranski JV, Pigeau RA. Self-monitoring cognitive performance during sleep deprivation effects of modafmil, d-amphetamine and placebo. J Sleep Res 1997 6 84—91. 

Some degree of spellbinding is characteristic of any compromise of frontal lobe function. Beer et al. (2006) noted that orbitofrontal damage is associated with objective inappropriate social behavior. The patients were aware of social norms of intimacy but they were unaware that their task performances violated these norms. The authors call this an impairment of self-monitoring and self-insight. Bach and David (2006) pointed out that self-awareness deficits are very common in patients with traumatic brain injury and key to the development of behavior disturbances Our research found that lack of social self-awareness predicts behavioural disturbance in acquired and traumatic brain injury independent of cognitive and executive function. ... 

Portable meters for measurement of blood glucose concentrations are used in three major settings (a) in acute and chronic care facilities (at the patient s bedside and in clinics or hospitals) (b) in physicians offices and (c) by patients at home, work, and school. The last, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), used by approximately 1 miUion diabetic patients, is performed in the United States at least once a day by 40% and 26% of individuals with type 1 and 2 diabetes, respectively. The worldwide market for SMBG is 2.7 billion per year, with annual growth estimated at 10% to 12%. ... 

Biosensors can be defined as chemical sensor systems in which an analyte is detected based on biochemical processes or biochemical utilization. A biosensor is mostly composed of a biological element responsible for sampling and tracing, and a physical element called a transducer responsible for sample transmission and further processing (see also Part V, Chapters 8 and 9). The term biosensor does not really meet the lUPAC definition, in which sensors are defined to be self-containing, perform continuous monitoring and are reversible. For the purpose of this chapter, the term biosensor will not be so strictly used as in the traditional context. 

Automatic devices cause required acts to be performed at given points in an operation without human intervention. For instance, an automatic titrator records a titration curve or simply stops a titration at an endpoint by mechanical or electrical means (such as a relay) instead of manually. Automated devices, on the other hand, replace human manipulative effort by mechanical and instrumental devices regulated by feedback of information, so, the apparatus is self-monitoring or selfbalancing. An automated titrator may be intended to maintain a sample at some preselected (set point) state— for example, at pH = 8. To do this, the pH of the solution is sensed and compared to a set point of pH = 8, and acid or base is added continuously so as to keep the sample pH at the set point. This type of automated titrator is called a pH-stat [2]. 

Feedback and self-monitoring What would this result tell you in terms of your assessment of the situation or efficiency of your actions At this point, do you think you need to change the way you were performing to get the job done ... 

Assessment of individual differences (or average response profiles for certain tasks) in applied environments generally seeks an empirically based answer to practical questions. Such objectives include monitoring and self-monitoring of performance, evaluation of mental and physical load and overload, selection and classification of personnel, detection of health risks, and evaluation of risk behavior. Especially when costly psychophysiological methods are involved, the empirical validity and, more importantly, the incremental validity (as compared to data already available) has to be discussed on theoretical grounds within the framework of cost-benefit analyses. 

Fluorescence anisotropy studies are popular in biological and biochemical research of lipid membranes [16-18], proteins [19-22], etc. and also in polymer science. They have been performed for monitoring the conformations and flexibility of polymer chains in dilute, semidilute and concentrated solutions [23-27], in polymer melts and blends [28-31], and also for studying polymer self-assembly [32-34]. Nowadays, steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy are currently used methods in polymer chemistry. 

Feedback is swift, since most of these techniques require supervisors to report their level of performance to upper management. (They are also often self-monitoring.)... 

If attempts are made to perform source monitoring during any emergency the personnel involved should be equipped with appropriate self-reading dosimeters. Furthermore, each person should be completely familiar with a site defined emergency worker turnback dose (EWTD), which is the dose at which... 

Team members typically have increased responsibility, autonomy, involvement in decision-making processes, and mutual accountability and are responsible for monitoring their own task performance. Self-managed teams usually adopt a flat organizational structure. 

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