There are factors concerning the trip and the driver that are crucial when describing the emotional and cognitive state of the passenger. This can be divided into two categories: Profile-passenger factors and trip-passenger factors.
1. PROFILE-PASSENGER FACTORS
The characteristics of the passenger could affect their perception of the driving experience. As a first approach, the category “Profile-Passenger factors” includes these factors:
- Gender.
- Age.
- Origin.
- Culture.
- Experience in driving.
- Driving predisposition.
- Personality.
- Past experiences.
- Physical and cognitive characteristics.
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2. TRIP-PASSENGER FACTORS
In addition to the elements that constitute the environment of the trip, there are some trip characteristics that are also of great relevance for the cognitive and emotional description of the passenger. Those characteristics are the ones related with the link between the passenger and the trajectory. These can be classified as follows:
- Time to complete the trip: From ample time, to very short time, to irrelevant.
- Importance of get in time: From very important, to irrelevant.
- Purpose of the trip: Work, hospitalization, holidays, etc.
- Pre-journey and post-journey activity.
- Familiarity with the trip // with the environment: prompt, regular // very familiar, completely new.
As an example of the previous factors, the driving experience and how the passenger perceives it, can be crucially different according to the purpose of its trip. For instance, if the purpose of the trip is holidays, the dense traffic could not get on his/her nerves in the same way, as if the trip is to get to work being short in time.
During the development of the emotional and cognitive models in SUaaVE, these factors will be identified and defined according with their relevance regarding the passenger’s state. For more information about other factors that can influence the passenger’s state, please see Deliverable 3.1. Framework of the emphatic module and preliminary relationship among automotive factors with cognitive and emotional passenger state.
http://www.suaave.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2019/11/SUaaVE_WP3_D3.1_20191031_V100.pdf
