Testing a commercial BCI device for in-vehicle interfaces evaluation: A simulator and real-world driving study
Authors
N. Louveton, K. Sengupta, R.C. McCall, R. Frank, and T. Engel
Reference
International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1-13, 2017
Description
This study is assessing the sensitivity of an affordable BCI device in the context of driver distraction in both low-fidelity simulator and real-world driving environments. Twenty-three participants performed a car following task while using a smartphone application involving a range of generic smartphone widgets. On the first hand, the results demonstrated that secondary task completion time is a fairly robust metric as it is sensitive to user-interfaces style while being consistent between the two driving environments. On the second hand, while the BCI attention level metric was not sensitive to the different user-interfaces, we found it to be significantly higher in the real-driving environment than in the simulated one, which reproduces findings obtained with medical-grade sensors.
