Title: Creating recommendations in an energy-efficient and safety relevant driving system while considering driver stress and driver reaction

Authors: Emre Yay; Natividad Martínez Madrid

Addresses: School of Informatics, Reutlingen University, Alteburgstr. 150, 72762 Reutlingen, Germany ' School of Informatics, Reutlingen University, Alteburgstr. 150, 72762 Reutlingen, Germany

Abstract: Saving energy and road safety became important in the last decades, hence several driving assistant systems were developed that help to improve the driving behaviour. However, these driving systems cover the area of either energy-efficiency or safety. Furthermore, they do not consider the reaction of the driver to a shown recommendation and the driver stress level. In this paper, the decision process of showing a recommendation to the driver in an energy-efficient and safety relevant driving system is presented. The decision process considers the driver reaction to a shown recommendation and the driver stress in order to increase the user acceptance and the road safety. The results of the evaluation showed that the driving system was able to show recommendations when needed, while suppressing recommendations when the driver ignored a recommendation repeatedly or when the driver was in stress.

Keywords: energy-efficiency; safety; advanced driver assistance systems; stress detection; driving behaviour.

DOI: 10.1504/IJES.2017.086124

International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2017 Vol.9 No.4, pp.298 - 309

Received: 27 Oct 2015
Accepted: 13 Mar 2016

Published online: 27 Aug 2017 *

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