Abstract
This research poses the hypothesis that it is possible to associate human emotions during driving to potential parameters of physical and controlling of automobile movement. Thus, its purpose is t determine the relationship between emotional expressions as demonstrated by electroencephalograph (EEG) that indicate valence as well as arousal and vehicle's characteristics in movement.
As an experimental methodology, we performed repeated tests of acceleration and braking under certain conditions during vehicular linear movement, during which changes in vehicular movement characteristics were noted as well as measurements taken of each driver's EEG patterns. From this data, we extracted significant levels of left-right brain frequency fluctuations showing driver comfortableness at certain intervals. Through regression analysis of time series data, we were able to obtain measurements of the contribution of each vehicle's characteristics movement to driver comfortableness.
This research extracted driver's real-time physiology reaction accompanied the feeling of driving by measured the EEG, and it is an attempt to make objectively evaluation for the driver's subjective experience. It was verified vehicle's characteristics in movement could be reflected objectively from the driver's physiology reaction.
