3315 Analysis of Driving Characteristic Based on Measurement of Cortical Brain Activity

Abstract

In the fields of improving the highway traffic safety and developing driving assistant system, it is important to understand the relation between the driving operations and the cortical brain activity corresponding to road geometry. In this paper, we performed a series of experiments using a driving simulator on a special designed course including several left and right curves. Meanwhile, the cortical brain activity was also measured by a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). We analyzed the characteristic differences of driving operations about left/right curves. Furthermore, accordantly difference of activation of brain regions between left/right curves was also extracted independently. Results show that fNIRS can be used in driving simulator experiments to evaluate drivers' brain activity for curve driving.