Key result
A Fuzzy Logic Mamdani Model was developed and validated to automatically estimate driving context and identify stress using real-world data from 8 participants during commuter journeys.
Why the study?
Recurrent stress is detrimental to long-term cardiovascular health, but understanding driving context to model stress is challenging because driving environments are dynamic and described using ambiguous terms.
A fuzzy rule-based system can automatically estimate driving context and link it with psychophysiological data to identify stress during commuter driving.
Feasibility of fuzzy logic for real-world driving stress detection shown in n=8; leaves open larger validation before any clinical use.
Stress is a negative emotion that occurs in everyday life, such as driving. Recurrent exposure to stress can be detrimental to cardiovascular health in the long term. Nevertheless, the development of adaptive coping strategies can mitigate the influence of everyday stress on cardiovascular health. Understanding context is essential to modelling the occurrence of stress and other negative emotions during everyday life. However, driving is a highly dynamic environment, whereby the context is often described using ambiguous linguistic terms, which can be difficult to quantify. This paper proposes a Fuzzy Logic Mamdani Model to automatically estimate different categories of driving context. The system is comprised of two Membership Functions (MFs), which converts the inputs of speed and traffic density into linguistic variables. Our approach then uses these data to identify six states of driving - Idling, Journey Impedance, High Urban Workload, Low Urban Workload, High Non-Urban Workload and Low Non-Urban Workload. An interactive visualization has then been implemented that links this fuzzy logic model with psychophysiological data to identify the context of stress experienced on the road. The system has been validated using real-world data that has been collected from eight participants during their daily commuter journeys.
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Dobbins et al. (2019) studied Stress during commuter driving (n=8). Fuzzy Logic Mamdani Model was evaluated on Estimation of driving context and identification of stress. A Fuzzy Logic Mamdani Model was developed and validated to automatically estimate driving context and identify stress using real-world data from 8 participants during commuter journeys.
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