Affective Driver-Pedestrian Interaction
Exploring Driver Affective Responses toward Pedestrian Crossing Actions using Camera and Physiological Sensors
Shruti Rao (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Sabrina Wirjopawiro (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Gerard Pons Rodriguez (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Thomas Röggla (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
P.S. Cesar Garcia (TU Delft - Multimedia Computing)
Abdallah El Ali (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
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Abstract
Eliciting and capturing drivers' affective responses in a realistic outdoor setting with pedestrians poses a challenge when designing in-vehicle, empathic interfaces. To address this, we designed a controlled, outdoor car driving circuit where drivers (N=27) drove and encountered pedestrian confederates who performed non-verbal positive or non-positive road crossing actions towards them. Our findings reveal that drivers reported higher valence upon observing positive, non-verbal crossing actions, and higher arousal upon observing non-positive crossing actions. Drivers' heart signals (BVP, IBI and BPM), skin conductance and facial expressions (brow lowering, eyelid tightening, nose wrinkling, and lip stretching) all varied significantly when observing positive and non-positive actions. Our car driving study, by drawing on realistic driving conditions, further contributes to the development of in-vehicle empathic interfaces that leverage behavioural and physiological sensing. Through automatic inference of driver affect resulting from pedestrian actions, our work can enable novel empathic interfaces for supporting driver emotion self-regulation.
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