Highly automated platooning: Effects on mental workload, stress, and fatigue

Daniël Heikoop; Joost de Winter; Bart van Arem; Neville A. Stanton

Abstract

Automatically driving platoons of vehicles are a likely candidate for solving many existing issues of road safety and congestion. However, the psychological effects of such technology are yet to be understood. Therefore, by means of a driving simulator experiment, we aimed to assess the psychological effects of driving in a highly automated platoon. The results showed that the type of task had no substantial effect on heart rate and self-reported stress, fatigue, and workload. However, time-on-task substantially reduced participants’ heart rate.

Original language	English
Number of pages	2
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	EHF 2016: Ergonomics and Human Factors - Northamptonshire, United Kingdom Duration: 19 Apr 2016 → 21 Apr 2016

Conference

Conference	EHF 2016: Ergonomics and Human Factors
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Northamptonshire
Period	19/04/16 → 21/04/16

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Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Platooning
Mental Workload
Stress
Fatique

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