On the Necessity and Feasibility of Detecting a Driver's Emotional State While Driving

  • Authors:
  • Michael Grimm;Kristian Kroschel;Helen Harris;Clifford Nass;Björn Schuller;Gerhard Rigoll;Tobias Moosmayr

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany;Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany;Stanford University, Department of Communication, Stanford, CA 94305-2050, USA;Stanford University, Department of Communication, Stanford, CA 94305-2050, USA;Technische Universität München, Institute for Human-Machine Communication, 80290 München, Germany;Technische Universität München, Institute for Human-Machine Communication, 80290 München, Germany;BMW Group, Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum, Akustik, Komfort und Werterhaltung, 80788 München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACII '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper brings together two important aspects of the human-machine interaction in cars: the psychological aspect and the engineering aspect. The psychologically motivated part of this study addresses questions such as whyit is important to automatically assess the driver's affective state, which states are important and how a machine's response should look like. The engineering part studies howthe emotional state of a driver can be estimated by extracting acoustic features from the speech signal and mapping them to an emotion state in a multidimensional, continuous-valued emotion space. Such a feasibility study is performed in an experiment in which spontaneous, authentic emotional utterances are superimposed by car noise of several car types and various road surfaces.