The Estimation of Occupants’ Emotions in Connected and Automated Vehicles

Juan-Manuel Belda-Lois, Sofía Iranzo, Javier Silva, Begoña Mateo, Nicolás Palomares, José Laparra-Hernández, José Solaz

2020

Abstract

One critical factor of success and user acceptance in connected automated vehicles (CAVs) is trust in technology, being the main obstacle that remains from a customer’s perspective. Trust in automated systems is based on feelings of safety and acceptance, being the emotional process the most influential aspect. One of the main ambitions of SUaaVE project (SUpporting acceptance of automated VEhicle) is to develop an emotional model to understand the passenger’s state during the trip (in Real-Time), based on body biometrics, allowing to adapt the vehicle features to enhance the in-vehicle user experience, while increasing trust, and therefore acceptance. This research addressed a initial experiments to identify changes in the emotional state of the occupants in different driving experiences (in a driving simulator and in real conditions) by measuring and analysing the physiological signals of the participants, serving as a basis for the generation of the emotional model. The results showed that it is possible to estimate the level of Arousal and Valence of the participants during the journey from the analysis of ECG, EMG and GSR signals. These results have positive implications for the automobile industry facilitating a better integration of human factor in the deployment of CAV.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Belda-Lois J., Iranzo S., Silva J., Mateo B., Palomares N., Laparra-Hernández J. and Solaz J. (2020). The Estimation of Occupants’ Emotions in Connected and Automated Vehicles.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: SUaaVE, ISBN 978-989-758-480-0, pages 262-267. DOI: 10.5220/0010214802620267

in Bibtex Style

@conference{suaave20,
author={Juan-Manuel Belda-Lois and Sofía Iranzo and Javier Silva and Begoña Mateo and Nicolás Palomares and José Laparra-Hernández and José Solaz},
title={The Estimation of Occupants’ Emotions in Connected and Automated Vehicles},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: SUaaVE,},
year={2020},
pages={262-267},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010214802620267},
isbn={978-989-758-480-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: SUaaVE,
TI - The Estimation of Occupants’ Emotions in Connected and Automated Vehicles
SN - 978-989-758-480-0
AU - Belda-Lois J.
AU - Iranzo S.
AU - Silva J.
AU - Mateo B.
AU - Palomares N.
AU - Laparra-Hernández J.
AU - Solaz J.
PY - 2020
SP - 262
EP - 267
DO - 10.5220/0010214802620267