2023-07-05 ヒューストン大学(UH)
The study included 77 hours of driving and 915 hours of non-driving observations.
◆これらのストレス反応は交通量が少なく天候が良い状況で観察されたものであり、より悪化した条件下ではさらに大きなストレス効果が予想される。この研究結果は、長期的な健康や安全、保険に関わる重要な意義を持つ可能性がある。
<関連情報>
- https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2023/july-2023/07052023-driving-stress-study.php
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10169887
若者の日常運転における心血管系の活性化を調査する Investigating Cardiovascular Activation of Young Adults in Routine Driving
Tanim Hasan,Huda Alghamdi,Salah Taamneh,Mike Manser,Robert Wunderlich,Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis,Ioannis Pavlidis
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Published:30 June 2023
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2023.3291330
Abstract
We report on a naturalistic study investigating the effects of routine driving on cardiovascular activation. We recruited 21 healthy young adults from a broad geographic area in the Southwestern United States. Using the participants’ own smartphones and smartwatches, we monitored for a week both their driving and non-driving activities. Monitoring included the continuous recording of a) heart rate throughout the day, b) hand motion during driving as a proxy of persistent texting, and c) contextualized driving data, complete with traffic and weather information. These high temporal resolution variables were complemented with the drivers’ biographic and psychometric profiles. Our analysis suggests that anxiety predisposition and high speeds are associated with significant cardiovascular activation on drivers, likely linked to sympathetic arousal. Surprisingly, these associations hold true under good weather, normal traffic, and with experienced drivers behind the wheel. The said findings call for attention to insidious effects of apparently benign drives even for people in their prime. Accordingly, our research contributes to intriguing new discourses on driving affect and personal health informatics.
