Automobile driver's stress index provision system that utilizes electrocardiogram

Abstract

This research intends to develop devices that make drivers rest and to verify in the early stage by effectively detecting the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, one of the signals of living body, in the vehicle during the operation and providing ANS information and degree of stress. Recording the regular activity of heart clinically, ECG reflects the health state of subject as well as checks the degree of operation of autonomic nervous system through analysis of Heart Rate Variability (HRV). As this alteration of autonomic nervous system predicts the stress level of drivers during operation and provides the possibility of warning by continuous detection, it may lead to the recognition and safe driving of driver by detecting the stress during driving altered by diverse factors such as changing mood, bio rhythm, condition, fatigue, boredom or disease and preventing the driver from reaching the inappropriate state for driving. Thus, the reliability and utilization level of system was confirmed to be satisfactory by providing new ECG measuring method familiar to drivers and comparing it with the result of judging drivers' emotion through this research.