Stress Level Monitoring in Car Racing - Examples of Measurements during Races

Joachim Taelman, Pieter Joosen, Jean-Marie Aerts, Vasileios Exadaktylos, Daniel Berckmans

2016

Abstract

Car racing at a high level is a physically and mentally intensive sport. Despite the fact that a large number of variables are measured on the car during racing, nothing is measured on the driver. It is well known that to achieve peak performance in competitive sports it is important that the athlete is at their peak both physically and mentally. The objective of this work is to monitor the mental state of the driver in real-time and provide this information to the pit crew. A number of interesting cases are presented that show the potential of real-time stress monitoring in race car driving as a means for driver performance optimisation and as a means to reduce accidents.

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in Harvard Style

Taelman J., Joosen P., Aerts J., Exadaktylos V. and Berckmans D. (2016). Stress Level Monitoring in Car Racing - Examples of Measurements during Races . In Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS, ISBN 978-989-758-205-9, pages 59-62. DOI: 10.5220/0006084500590062


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsports16,
author={Joachim Taelman and Pieter Joosen and Jean-Marie Aerts and Vasileios Exadaktylos and Daniel Berckmans},
title={Stress Level Monitoring in Car Racing - Examples of Measurements during Races},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS,},
year={2016},
pages={59-62},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006084500590062},
isbn={978-989-758-205-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS,
TI - Stress Level Monitoring in Car Racing - Examples of Measurements during Races
SN - 978-989-758-205-9
AU - Taelman J.
AU - Joosen P.
AU - Aerts J.
AU - Exadaktylos V.
AU - Berckmans D.
PY - 2016
SP - 59
EP - 62
DO - 10.5220/0006084500590062