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

Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADASs) are used for increasing safety in the
automotive domain, yet current ADASs notably operate without taking into account drivers' …

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 …

In this paper, we explore how state-of-the-art methods of emotion elicitation can be adapted
in virtual reality (VR). We envision that emotion research could be conducted in VR for …

Virtual Reality (VR) technologies can counteract stress or fatigue and restore attention, eg,
by recreating the beauty of nature in a Virtual Restorative Environment (VRE). This has …

Self-driving cars are around the corner, yet little is known about how users of self-driving
cars will react to the car's driving style, and whether the driver's mood affects their driving …

Although research on smart cars has rapidly expanded, relatively little attention has been
paid to improving users' emotional experiences. This research was based on a petmorphic …

Emotion induction is a crucial activity when designing experimental studies focused on
collecting training data about human behaviour in the interaction with technology under …

Driver monitoring systems (DMS) have been developed to improve road safety by collecting
data on driver status and behavior to profile their ability to drive safely. Nowadays, DMSs …

Autobiographical Recall (ABR) is a method for eliciting emotions by recalling past personal
events (eg, recalling happy memories to induce happiness). ABR could have many uses in …