HappyRouting: Learning Emotion-Aware Route Trajectories for Scalable In-The-Wild Navigation

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Main Authors: Bethge, David, Bulanda, Daniel, Kozlowski, Adam, Kosch, Thomas, Schmidt, Albrecht, Grosse-Puppendahl, Tobias
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Published: 2024
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author Bethge, David
Bulanda, Daniel
Kozlowski, Adam
Kosch, Thomas
Schmidt, Albrecht
Grosse-Puppendahl, Tobias
author_facet Bethge, David
Bulanda, Daniel
Kozlowski, Adam
Kosch, Thomas
Schmidt, Albrecht
Grosse-Puppendahl, Tobias
contents Routes represent an integral part of triggering emotions in drivers. Navigation systems allow users to choose a navigation strategy, such as the fastest or shortest route. However, they do not consider the driver's emotional well-being. We present HappyRouting, a novel navigation-based empathic car interface guiding drivers through real-world traffic while evoking positive emotions. We propose design considerations, derive a technical architecture, and implement a routing optimization framework. Our contribution is a machine learning-based generated emotion map layer, predicting emotions along routes based on static and dynamic contextual data. We evaluated HappyRouting in a real-world driving study (N=13), finding that happy routes increase subjectively perceived valence by 11% (p=.007). Although happy routes take 1.25 times longer on average, participants perceived the happy route as shorter, presenting an emotion-enhanced alternative to today's fastest routing mechanisms. We discuss how emotion-based routing can be integrated into navigation apps, promoting emotional well-being for mobility use.
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spellingShingle HappyRouting: Learning Emotion-Aware Route Trajectories for Scalable In-The-Wild Navigation
Bethge, David
Bulanda, Daniel
Kozlowski, Adam
Kosch, Thomas
Schmidt, Albrecht
Grosse-Puppendahl, Tobias
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Routes represent an integral part of triggering emotions in drivers. Navigation systems allow users to choose a navigation strategy, such as the fastest or shortest route. However, they do not consider the driver's emotional well-being. We present HappyRouting, a novel navigation-based empathic car interface guiding drivers through real-world traffic while evoking positive emotions. We propose design considerations, derive a technical architecture, and implement a routing optimization framework. Our contribution is a machine learning-based generated emotion map layer, predicting emotions along routes based on static and dynamic contextual data. We evaluated HappyRouting in a real-world driving study (N=13), finding that happy routes increase subjectively perceived valence by 11% (p=.007). Although happy routes take 1.25 times longer on average, participants perceived the happy route as shorter, presenting an emotion-enhanced alternative to today's fastest routing mechanisms. We discuss how emotion-based routing can be integrated into navigation apps, promoting emotional well-being for mobility use.
title HappyRouting: Learning Emotion-Aware Route Trajectories for Scalable In-The-Wild Navigation
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15695