%0 Journal Article
%T A wearable system for the affective monitoring of car racing drivers during simulated conditions
%J Transportation research part C: emerging technologies
%D 2011
%A Katsis, C.D.
%A Goletsis, Y.
%A Rigas, G.
%A Fotiadis, D.I.
%V 19
%N 3
%P 541-551
%X A real time, wearable system for remote monitoring of car racing drivers' emotional state is presented. The so-called AUBADE system (standing for AUgmentation system for roBust emotionAl understanding) consists of a wearable device and a centralized unit. The wearable device is responsible to acquire selected biosignals, pre-process them and wirelesses transmit them from the subject-site to the centralized system. The centralized system, which is the main part of the system and carries most of the processing, has a twofold purpose: on the one hand it performs evaluation of the subject's emotional state and on the other hand it projects a generic 3D face model whereat the facial expression of the subject can be viewed. A two stage classification scheme is used. First a decision tree is implemented in order to classify the subject's emotional state as high stress, low stress and valence. Then a Tree Augmented Naïve Bayesian classifier (TAN) is used to classify valence as euphoria and dysphoria. The centralized system has been validated using a dataset obtained from ten subjects in simulated racing conditions. The emotional classes identified are high stress, low stress, dysphoria and euphoria. The overall classification rate achieved using tenfold cross-validation is high. AUBADE constitutes the first system which has the feasibility of remote and real time affective assessment in car racing, providing a useful addition to the existing telemetry systems used in the domain.<p />
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0968-090X
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2010.09.004