A study on the effects of the cognitive workload on the driver´s blood pulse wave

Distracted driving has emerged as a factor of road accidents. Hence, the detection increase of drivers´ cognitive workload has been a vital issue for establishing safety support systems. Studies on the estimation of driver´s mental workload have been performed using various devices. However, an applicable and a sensitive device is still vague. One of the promising devices available is using blood pulse wave. The purpose of this study is to develop a driver´s distraction detection method through blood pulse wave analysis. This paper focus on how to determine the threshold of drivers´ distraction. Based on the experiments that were conducted on driving simulator, we did some suggestions regarding the effects of cognitive workload that been imposed to drivers to driver´s blood pulse wave.