Adaptive Driving Coaching System for Emotional State Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional driving coaching systems fail to provide appropriate support and guidance tailored to a driver's emotional and physical state, leading to ineffective coaching and potential discomfort or anxiety.

Innovation Solution

An information providing system that acquires and estimates a driver's emotion, driving skill, and physical condition, adjusting coaching information and instructor dialogue dynamically based on these factors, including reducing coaching frequency when emotions turn negative and suspending coaching during poor physical conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If driving coaching is provided continuously and frequently to improve driving skill, then driving skill improvement is enhanced, but driver anxiety and discomfort increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriving skill improvementVSAvoiddriver anxiety and discomfort
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts the coaching frequency and intensity based on real-time detection of driver emotion and physical condition. When positive emotions are detected, coaching frequency increases to maximize skill improvement. When negative emotions or poor physical condition are detected, coaching frequency decreases or pauses to prevent driver anxiety and discomfort.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors driver emotion and physical condition through sensors and provides feedback by adjusting coaching frequency accordingly. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures that coaching is adaptive to driver state, optimizing skill improvement while preventing excessive coaching-induced anxiety.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If driving coaching is provided without considering driver emotion and physical condition, then coaching coverage is maximized, but coaching appropriateness and effectiveness decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecoaching coverageVSAvoidcoaching appropriateness
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system transitions from static coaching schedules to dynamic coaching delivery by continuously adapting to driver emotion and physical condition. This enables the system to maintain high coaching coverage while ensuring each coaching instance is appropriate to the driver's current state.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes key parameters of coaching delivery (frequency, intensity, timing) based on detected driver emotion and physical condition parameters. This allows the system to maximize coaching coverage while maintaining appropriateness through parameter adaptation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Speed

If coaching frequency is increased to accelerate skill development, then learning speed improves, but driver comfort and acceptance decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelearning speedVSAvoiddriver comfort
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically balances learning speed and driver comfort by adjusting coaching frequency in real-time. When drivers are in positive emotional states, the system increases coaching frequency to accelerate learning. When negative emotions are detected, the system reduces frequency to maintain driver comfort and acceptance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the frequency parameter of coaching delivery based on detected driver state parameters, enabling acceleration of learning speed during favorable conditions while maintaining comfort during unfavorable conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10937334B2Information providing system
Publication Date: 2021.03.02 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

Enabling information provision of appropriate driving coaching and so forth in line with a user as a driver. A terminal device includes a driving information acquiring unit and a biological information acquiring unit functioning as an information acquiring unit that acquires information relating to the emotion, the driving skill, and the physical condition of a rider (user). Furthermore, an arithmetic unit of a server functions as an estimating unit that estimates the emotion, the driving skill, and the physical condition according to acquired information and functions as an information processing unit that carries out information provision to a rider according to the combination of the emotion, the driving skill, and the physical condition that are estimated.