Exploring Emotion Responses toward Pedestrian Crossing Actions for Designing In-vehicle Empathic Interfaces
Surjya Ghosh (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani)
Gerard Pons Rodriguez (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Shruti Rao (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Abdallah El Ali (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Pablo Cesar (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), TU Delft - Multimedia Computing)
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Abstract
While affective non-verbal communication between pedestrians and drivers has been shown to improve on-road safety and driving experiences, it remains a challenge to design driver assistance systems that can automatically capture these affective cues. In this early work, we identify users' emotional self-report responses towards commonly occurring pedestrian actions while crossing a road. We conducted a crowd-sourced web-based survey (N=91), where respondents with prior driving experience viewed videos of 25 pedestrian interaction scenarios selected from the JAAD (Joint Attention for Autonomous Driving) dataset, and thereafter provided valence and arousal self-reports. We found participants' emotion self-reports (especially valence) are strongly influenced by actions including hand waving, nodding, impolite hand gestures, and inattentive pedestrian(s) crossing while engaged with a phone. Our findings provide a first step towards designing in-vehicle empathic interfaces that can assist in driver emotion regulation during on-road interactions, where the identified pedestrian actions serve as future driver emotion induction stimuli.
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