A study on the effects of the cognitive workload on the driver's blood pulse wave

Abstract

Distracted driving has emerged as a factor of road accidents. Hence, the detection increase of drivers' cognitive workload has been a vital issue for establishing safety support systems. Studies on the estimation of driver's mental workload have been performed using various devices. However, an applicable and a sensitive device is still vague. One of the promising devices available is using blood pulse wave. The purpose of this study is to develop a driver's distraction detection method through blood pulse wave analysis. This paper focus on how to determine the threshold of drivers' distraction. Based on the experiments that were conducted on driving simulator, we did some suggestions regarding the effects of cognitive workload that been imposed to drivers to driver's blood pulse wave