Detecting Drunk Driving Using Off-the-Shelf Smartwatches
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| author | Deuber, Robin Yang, Lanlan Bechny, Michal Heck, Christoph Pfäffli, Matthias Bantle, Matthias von Wangenheim, Florian Fleisch, Elgar Weinmann, Wolfgang Günther, Manuel Wortmann, Felix Mishra, Varun |
| author_facet | Deuber, Robin Yang, Lanlan Bechny, Michal Heck, Christoph Pfäffli, Matthias Bantle, Matthias von Wangenheim, Florian Fleisch, Elgar Weinmann, Wolfgang Günther, Manuel Wortmann, Felix Mishra, Varun |
| contents | Alcohol-impaired driving remains a major yet preventable cause of road traffic injury and death, with many drivers underestimating their level of intoxication. Compared to in-vehicle systems, mobile drunk-driving detection using consumer smartwatches offers a scalable way to trigger preventive interventions and increase awareness without additional in-vehicle hardware. We introduce a system that leverages wrist accelerometer data and heart rate variability-derived physiological signals to detect alcohol-related driving impairment. We collected data in a randomized, controlled three-arm test-track study (n=54) and trained both logistic regression models with window-aggregated features and a two-tower 1D convolutional neural network (CNN), to detect alcohol-impaired driving. The CNN achieved a participant-averaged area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) of 0.88 for detecting any alcohol intoxication and 0.86 for detecting driving above the WHO-recommended limit of 0.05 g/dL. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to (1) demonstrate drunk-driving detection using consumer smartwatches, (2) develop and evaluate such a system in a real vehicle on a closed test track, and (3) rigorously assess generalization to unseen participants. Together, these findings highlight the potential of wearable-based sensing to support scalable, measurement-driven prevention of alcohol-related traffic harm. |
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| spellingShingle | Detecting Drunk Driving Using Off-the-Shelf Smartwatches Deuber, Robin Yang, Lanlan Bechny, Michal Heck, Christoph Pfäffli, Matthias Bantle, Matthias von Wangenheim, Florian Fleisch, Elgar Weinmann, Wolfgang Günther, Manuel Wortmann, Felix Mishra, Varun Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning Alcohol-impaired driving remains a major yet preventable cause of road traffic injury and death, with many drivers underestimating their level of intoxication. Compared to in-vehicle systems, mobile drunk-driving detection using consumer smartwatches offers a scalable way to trigger preventive interventions and increase awareness without additional in-vehicle hardware. We introduce a system that leverages wrist accelerometer data and heart rate variability-derived physiological signals to detect alcohol-related driving impairment. We collected data in a randomized, controlled three-arm test-track study (n=54) and trained both logistic regression models with window-aggregated features and a two-tower 1D convolutional neural network (CNN), to detect alcohol-impaired driving. The CNN achieved a participant-averaged area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) of 0.88 for detecting any alcohol intoxication and 0.86 for detecting driving above the WHO-recommended limit of 0.05 g/dL. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to (1) demonstrate drunk-driving detection using consumer smartwatches, (2) develop and evaluate such a system in a real vehicle on a closed test track, and (3) rigorously assess generalization to unseen participants. Together, these findings highlight the potential of wearable-based sensing to support scalable, measurement-driven prevention of alcohol-related traffic harm. |
| title | Detecting Drunk Driving Using Off-the-Shelf Smartwatches |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23663 |