TITLE:
Preliminary Study for Feasibility of Driver Agent in Actual Car Environment—Driver Agent for Encouraging Safe Driving Behavior (3)
AUTHORS:
Takahiro Tanaka, Kazuhiro Fujikake, Yuki Yoshihara, Nihan Karatas, Hirofumi Aoki, Hitoshi Kanamori
KEYWORDS:
Driving Support, Agent, Elderly, HMI
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Transportation Technologies,
Vol.10 No.2,
March
18,
2020
ABSTRACT: Japan has become a more aged society and there are more drivers, 65 years
of age and above. Cars represent an important mode of transportation for the
elderly; however, in recent years, the number of traffic accidents caused by
elderly drivers has been on the rise, and this has become a social issue. Thus,
for the elderly drivers to encourage them to improve their driving, we study a
driver agent system which consists of
smartphone, communication robot and cloud service and provides the driving support
by attention awakening and the feedback support based on driving behavior
evaluation. In this paper, we presented a summary of the proposed agent and reported
on a set of preliminary experiments using our agent in an actual car
environment. From the analysis of subjective evaluations and fixation points
during driving, the results revealed the possibility that the drivers accept the agent
and supports from the agent during driving and that the agent in an actual car
environment did not distract the driver.