Searching for the Gaps in Mental Workload Assessment of Assistive Technologies

A constant development of modern technologies will gradually affect all areas of human activity. The use of various ICT technologies will be absolutely inevitable in the future. However, a little attention has been paid so far to clarifying the impact of these technologies on the human mental stress, especially due to the difficulty of measuring and evaluating. The purpose of this paper is to review the current literature whether there are studies clarifying the impact of assistive technologies on mental stress or if there is still a gap in understanding the cognitive perception. The paper describes methodological process of literature review where 66 articles from PubMed, Science Direct, Web of Science and Scopus databases were screened. The review showed, that there is only a limited number of relevant papers (3 papers) focused on mental stress in connection with Industry 4.0 and assistive technologies and thus there is still a room for elaborating this area further.