Proposal of a Method for Maintaining Arousal by Inducing Intrinsic Motivation and Verification of the Effect

Abstract

At present, external-stimulation methods such as sounds or vibrations are popular; on the other hand, there has been little research on a method focusing on human psychological state. Therefore, we propose a method for maintaining arousal by inducing intrinsic motivations. This arousal maintenance was found to work well during manual driving, but there were stress accompanying the method of inducing intrinsic motivation during autonomous driving. Therefore, a method that does not become stress during autonomous driving was applied. This arousal maintenance was found to work well during autonomous driving.