Abstract
Driver distraction is a major challenge in road traffic and major cause of accidents. Vehicle industry dedicates increasing amounts of resources to better quantify the various activities of drivers resulting in distraction. Literature has shown that significant causes for driver distraction are tasks performed by drivers which are not related to driving, like using multimedia interfaces or glancing at co-drivers. One key aspect of the successful implementation of distraction prevention mechanisms is to know when the driver performs such auxiliary tasks. Therefore, capturing these tasks with appropriate measurement equipment is crucial. Especially novel quantification approaches combining data from different sensors and devices are necessary for comprehensively determining causes of driver distraction. However, as a literature review has revealed, there is currently a lack of lightweight frameworks for multi-device integration and multi-sensor fusion to enable cost-effective and minimally obtrusive driver monitoring with respect to scalability and extendibility. This paper presents such a lightweight framework which has been implemented in a demonstrator and applied in a small real-world study involving ten drivers performing simple distraction tasks. Preliminary results of our analysis have indicated a high accuracy of distraction detection for individual distraction tasks and thus the framework’s usefulness. The gained knowledge can be used to develop improved mechanisms for detecting driver distraction through better quantification of distracting tasks.
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Parts of this study were funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) under project number 866781 (FFG FEMTech Project GENDrive). The authors would further like to acknowledge the financial support of the COMET K2 – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies Programme of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit), the Federal Ministry for Digital, Business and Enterprise (bmdw), the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the Province of Styria and the Styrian Business Promotion Agency (SFG).
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Lechner, G. et al. (2019). A Lightweight Framework for Multi-device Integration and Multi-sensor Fusion to Explore Driver Distraction. In: Giorgini, P., Weber, B. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11483. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21290-2_6
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