Predicting cognitive load in immersive driving scenarios with a hybrid CNN-RNN model

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Main Authors: Khan, Mehshan Ahmed, Asadi, Houshyar, Qazani, Mohammad Reza Chalak, Arogbonlo, Adetokunbo, Nahavandi, Saeid, Lim, Chee Peng
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author Khan, Mehshan Ahmed
Asadi, Houshyar
Qazani, Mohammad Reza Chalak
Arogbonlo, Adetokunbo
Nahavandi, Saeid
Lim, Chee Peng
author_facet Khan, Mehshan Ahmed
Asadi, Houshyar
Qazani, Mohammad Reza Chalak
Arogbonlo, Adetokunbo
Nahavandi, Saeid
Lim, Chee Peng
contents One debatable issue in traffic safety research is that cognitive load from sec-ondary tasks reduces primary task performance, such as driving. Although physiological signals have been extensively used in driving-related research to assess cognitive load, only a few studies have specifically focused on high cognitive load scenarios. Most existing studies tend to examine moderate or low levels of cognitive load In this study, we adopted an auditory version of the n-back task of three levels as a cognitively loading secondary task while driving in a driving simulator. During the simultaneous execution of driving and the n-back task, we recorded fNIRS, eye-tracking, and driving behavior data to predict cognitive load at three different levels. To the best of our knowledge, this combination of data sources has never been used before. Un-like most previous studies that utilize binary classification of cognitive load and driving in conditions without traffic, our study involved three levels of cognitive load, with drivers operating in normal traffic conditions under low visibility, specifically during nighttime and rainy weather. We proposed a hybrid neural network combining a 1D Convolutional Neural Network and a Recurrent Neural Network to predict cognitive load. Our experimental re-sults demonstrate that the proposed model, with fewer parameters, increases accuracy from 99.82% to 99.99% using physiological data, and from 87.26% to 92.02% using driving behavior data alone. This significant improvement highlights the effectiveness of our hybrid neural network in accurately pre-dicting cognitive load during driving under challenging conditions.
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spellingShingle Predicting cognitive load in immersive driving scenarios with a hybrid CNN-RNN model
Khan, Mehshan Ahmed
Asadi, Houshyar
Qazani, Mohammad Reza Chalak
Arogbonlo, Adetokunbo
Nahavandi, Saeid
Lim, Chee Peng
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
One debatable issue in traffic safety research is that cognitive load from sec-ondary tasks reduces primary task performance, such as driving. Although physiological signals have been extensively used in driving-related research to assess cognitive load, only a few studies have specifically focused on high cognitive load scenarios. Most existing studies tend to examine moderate or low levels of cognitive load In this study, we adopted an auditory version of the n-back task of three levels as a cognitively loading secondary task while driving in a driving simulator. During the simultaneous execution of driving and the n-back task, we recorded fNIRS, eye-tracking, and driving behavior data to predict cognitive load at three different levels. To the best of our knowledge, this combination of data sources has never been used before. Un-like most previous studies that utilize binary classification of cognitive load and driving in conditions without traffic, our study involved three levels of cognitive load, with drivers operating in normal traffic conditions under low visibility, specifically during nighttime and rainy weather. We proposed a hybrid neural network combining a 1D Convolutional Neural Network and a Recurrent Neural Network to predict cognitive load. Our experimental re-sults demonstrate that the proposed model, with fewer parameters, increases accuracy from 99.82% to 99.99% using physiological data, and from 87.26% to 92.02% using driving behavior data alone. This significant improvement highlights the effectiveness of our hybrid neural network in accurately pre-dicting cognitive load during driving under challenging conditions.
title Predicting cognitive load in immersive driving scenarios with a hybrid CNN-RNN model
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06350