In-Car Information Output Adaptation for Driver Workload Peaks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for outputting information to drivers in vehicles often lead to driver overload, increasing the risk of accidents due to excessive demands on the driver's attention, which can result in degraded performance and safety.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and apparatus that determine a driver's workload by analyzing various data sources, including map, traffic, navigation, sensor, and communication status data, to control the output of information, such as delaying or suppressing notifications, modifying prominence, or transforming modalities, to prevent overload and enhance safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If information is continuously output to the driver through in-car systems, then the driver receives comprehensive assistance and information, but the driver's workload increases and safety deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the output of information based on real-time driver workload assessment. When workload is high, the system reduces or suppresses information output; when workload is low, it provides more comprehensive information. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the information system flexible rather than static, ensuring safety while maintaining comprehensiveness when appropriate.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameters of information output (volume, frequency, type of information) based on driver state. By monitoring driver workload and adjusting information delivery parameters accordingly, the system maintains safety while providing necessary assistance, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive information delivery and driver overload.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple in-car systems output information simultaneously, then the driver receives diverse assistance, but the attention demand exceeds driver capacity
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and prioritizes only the most critical information for output to the driver at any given moment. By filtering out non-essential information when driver capacity is limited, the system maintains information diversity where needed while reducing attention demand to manageable levels, resolving the contradiction between versatility and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from driver monitoring to adjust information output. By continuously assessing driver state and adjusting information delivery accordingly, the system ensures that information diversity is provided adaptively without overwhelming the driver's attention capacity, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and ease of operation.
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AI summary
Certain examples of the present disclosure relate to a computer implemented method (100) for controlling an output of information to a driver of a vehicle, the method comprising: determining (101) workload data (204) indicative of a workload of the driver, and generating (102) control data (205) for controlling the output of information (206, 207) to the driver based at least in part on the workload data.