• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.371-377
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• 2012

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate effect of driver's cognitive distraction on driver's physiological state and driving performance, and then to determine parameters appropriate for detecting the cognitive distraction. Background: Driver distraction is a major cause of traffic accidents and poses a serious threat to traffic safety due to ever increasing use of in-vehicle information systems and mobile phones during driving. Cognitive distraction, among four different types of distractions, prevents a driver from processing traffic information correctly and adapting to change in surround vehicle behavior in time. However, the cognitive distraction is more difficult to detect because it normally does not involve significant change in driver behavior. Method: A full-scale driving simulator was used to create virtual driving environment and situations. Participants in the experiment drove the driving simulator in three different conditions: attentive driving with no secondary task, driving and conducting secondary task of adding numbers, and driving and conducting secondary task of conversing with an experimenter. Parameters related with driver's physiological state and driving performance were measured and analyzed for their change. Results: The experiment results show that driver's cognitive distraction, induced by secondary task of addition and conversation during driving, increased driver's cognitive workload, and indeed brought change in driver's physiological state and degraded driving performance. Conclusion: The galvanic skin response, pupil size, steering reversal rate, and driver reaction time are shown to be statistically significant for detecting cognitive distraction. The appropriate combination of these parameters will be used to detect the cognitive distraction and estimate risk of traffic accidents in real-time for a driver distraction warning system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.3820-3841
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• 2018

Most of the accidents occur due to drowsiness while driving, avoiding road signs and due to driver's distraction. Driver's distraction depends on various factors which include talking with passengers while driving, mood disorder, nervousness, anger, over-excitement, anxiety, loud music, illness, fatigue and different driver's head rotations due to change in yaw, pitch and roll angle. The contribution of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, a data set is generated for conducting different experiments on driver's distraction. Secondly, novel approaches are presented that use features based on facial points; especially the features computed using motion vectors and interpolation to detect a special type of driver's distraction, i.e., driver's head rotation due to change in yaw angle. These facial points are detected by Active Shape Model (ASM) and Boosted Regression with Markov Networks (BoRMaN). Various types of classifiers are trained and tested on different frames to decide about a driver's distraction. These approaches are also scale invariant. The results show that the approach that uses the novel ideas of motion vectors and interpolation outperforms other approaches in detection of driver's head rotation. We are able to achieve a percentage accuracy of 98.45 using Neural Network.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.173-182
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 운전자의 주의산만을 유발하는 운전자, 탑승자의 동작을 분석하고 핸드폰과 관련된 운전자의 행동 10가지를 인식하였다. 먼저 주의산만을 유발하는 동작을 환경 및 요인으로 분류하고 관련 최근 논문을 분석하였다. 분석된 논문을 기반으로 주의산만을 유발하는 주요 원인인 핸드폰과 관련된 10가지 운전자의 행동을 인식하였다. 약 10만 개의 이미지 데이터를 기반으로 실험을 진행하였다. SURF를 통해 특징을 추출하고 3가지 모델(CNN, ResNet-101, 개선된 ResNet-101)로 실험하였다. 개선된 ResNet-101 모델은 CNN보다 학습 오류와 검증 오류가 8.2배, 44.6배가량 줄어들었으며 평균적인 정밀도와 f1-score는 0.98로 높은 수준을 유지하였다. 또한 CAM(class activation maps)을 활용하여 딥러닝 모델이 운전자의 주의 분산 행동을 판단할 때, 핸드폰 객체와 위치를 결정적 원인으로 활용했는지 검토하였다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.55-59
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• 2010

Driver distraction is a major cause of traffic accidents in Korea. Various measures are being introduced to detect and warn driver distraction. The objective of this research is to investigate changes in driver's physiological signals due to distraction during driving. Driving simulator experiments have been carried out to investigate discrepancy in EEG signals among normal driving, DMB watching during driving, and cellular phone use during driving. Based on the discrepancy, combination of EEG signals have been identfied as candidate variables for detecting driver distraction. Statistical analysis has been carried out to verify their statistical significance.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.166-172
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• 2018

The distraction of the driver's attention causes as much traffic accidents as drowsiness driving. Yet though there have been many studies on drowsiness driving, research on distraction driving is insufficient. In this paper, we divide distraction of attention into visual distraction and cognitive distraction and analyze the EEG of subjects while viewing images of distracting situations. The results show that more information is received and processed when distractions occur. It is confirmed that the probability of accident increases when the driver receives overwhelming amount of information that he or she cannot concentrate on driving.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.735-739
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• 2010

Driving workload is increasing according to developing new in-vehicle devices and introducing driving information systems. In this research using a driving simulator, EFRP (Eye Fixation Related Potential) was measured for evaluating driving attention and distraction while tasking cognitive workload, n-back tasks. The result of EFRP was compared with driver behaviors. Results suggest that EFRP is able to use for a method of evaluating driving workload, however, the analysis of driver behavior is difficult to find driving attention and distraction in the case of free flow of traffic situation.

• 전자통신동향분석
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2023

Given recent accidents involving autonomous vehicles, driver monitoring technology related to the transition of control in autonomous vehicles is gaining prominence. Driver status monitoring systems recognize the driver's level of alertness and identify possible impairments in the driving ability owing to conditions including drowsiness and distraction. In autonomous vehicles, predictive factors for the transition to manual driving should also be included. During traditional human driving, monitoring the driver's status is relatively straightforward owing to the consistency of crucial cues, such as the driver's location, head orientation, gaze direction, and hand placement. However, monitoring becomes more challenging during autonomous driving because of the absence of direct manual control and the driver's engagement in other activities, which may obscure the accurate assessment of the driver's readiness to intervene. Hence, safety-ensuring technology must be balanced with user experience in autonomous driving. We explore relevant global and domestic regulations, the new car assessment program, and related standards to extract requirements for driver status monitoring. This kind of monitoring can both enhance the autonomous driving performance and contribute to the overall safety of autonomous vehicles on the road.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2009

Driving is a complex psychomotor task often interrupted by secondary activities that increase cognitive workload and divert attention away from the roadway. The risk of inattentive driving is known to vary with age. To assess the characteristics of advancing age on driver's cognitive workload under dual task condition, we evaluate the performance of 96 drivers divided into three age groups: 20's, 40's, and 60's. This study considers driver's cognitive workload in the context of urban and highway driving. Error rate & Dual task cost are used to measure driver's cognitive workload. Results indicate that age impacts cognitive workload during dual task driving conditions.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2019년도 제59차 동계학술대회논문집 27권1호
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• pp.451-453
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 주행 중 안전운전에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 운전자의 행동을 찾아 분석한 뒤 세분화 하여 분류하고, 주의분산을 유발하는 운전자의 운전행동 구분을 바탕으로 차량을 주행함에 있어 위험요소를 찾아내도록 한다. 이를 통해 향후 자동차사고를 줄이기 위한 제도개선 및 문제점 보완에 기여할 수 있다. 운전 중 운전자의 주의분산을 유발하는 디바이스가 늘어나는 상황에서 본 논문의 분석결과는 운전자의 필수적이지 않은 위험행동을 줄이도록 유도하는 방안을 모색할 수 있다.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.42-50
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• 2016

Traditional tactile controls that include push buttons and rotary switches may cause significant visual and biomechanical distractions if they are located away from the driver's line of sight and hand position, for example, on the central console. Gestural controls, as an alternative to traditional controls, are natural and can reduce visual distractions; however, their types and numbers are limited and have no feedback. To overcome the problems, a driver interface combining gestures and visual feedback with a head-up display has been proposed recently. In this paper, we investigated the effect of this type of interface in terms of driving performance measures. Human-in-the-loop experiments were conducted using a driving simulator with the traditional tactile and the new gesture-based interfaces. The experimental results showed that the new interface caused less visual distractions, better gap control between ego and target vehicles, and better recognition of road conditions comparing to the traditional one.