Affective technology offers exciting opportunities to improve road safety by catering to
human emotions. Modern car interiors enable the contactless detection of user states …

Drivers in negative emotional states, such as anger or sadness, are prone to perform bad at
driving, decreasing overall road safety for all road users. Recent advances in affective …

Using sensors to monitor signals produced by drivers is a way to help better understand how
emotions contribute to unsafe driving habits. The need for intuitive machines that can …

Globalization has increased the number of road trips and vehicles. The result has been an
intensification of traffic accidents, which are becoming one of the most important causes of …

Emotion and a broader range of affective and cognitive states play an important role on the
road. While this has been predominantly investigated in terms of driver safety, the …

In this paper we investigate how natural language interfaces can be integrated with cars in a
way such that their influence on driving performance is being minimized. In particular, we …

A driver's emotional state can affect driving performance. According to the studies on the
driving performance based on the circumplex (arousal-valence) model of affect, negative …

In automotive research, the current hot topic of emotion recognition is mainly technology-
driven, focusing on the development of sensors and algorithms that ensure recognition …

Driver state detection is an emerging topic for automotive user interfaces. Motivated by the
trend of self-tracking, one crucial question within this field is how or whether detected states …

This work presents a model for the development of affective assistants based on the pillars
of user states and traits. Traits are defined as long-term qualities like personality, personal …