Workshop for designing biofeedback of driver's state and emotion in automated vehicles

Welcome to the Workhop on Biofeedback of driver's state and emotion in Automated Vehicles ! This workshop will be part of the Automotive 2021 conference.

We believe it is important for the driver to be aware of his orher emotional and/or affective state because it can influence his or her driving. In the context of autonomous driving,the communication of the driver state could increase the sense of companionship, as the vehicle shows that it "knows"the driver and can remedy or adapt to her/his needs. In the case of promoting mental health, the context of autonomousdriving could then make sense by freeing the driver from the main task of driving and being able to work on hiscondition.

The objective of this workshop will be to discuss and propose a concept on how the vehicle can providebio-feedback to the driver? There could be two approaches to thinking about the response of the intelligent systembased on the driver’s condition:

• through classical visualization of the driver’s state using in-vehicle interfaces such as ambient light, driver seat,text on console or dashboard, auditory or visual feedback...

• by interacting with /through the emotion of the vehicle (intelligent system) itself. For example, the vehicle couldreact as follows: "What did I do wrong?", "Are you sure you’re okay?", etc

If you are interested in empathic multimodal interactions and biofeedback, we invite you to participate in our workshop. For more information, go to the page Call for participation