2022/09/09
Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, Nagoya University
Keio University
Highlights of this research
Using a simulator that allows users to experience flying cars overhead, we compared stress levels related to "noise," a significant factor, using conscious questionnaire surveys and an unconscious Kansei analyzer based on simple electroencephalography (EEG) measurements.
The comparison revealed that after initial exposure to loud noise, reducing the volume tended to show stress relief in the questionnaires, whereas the Kansei analyzer indicated that unconscious stress was not easily alleviated.
This is expected to provide important insights for developing guidelines for the deployment of aerial infrastructure and for creating innovative aircraft that are friendly to society on the ground.
A research group led by Professor Susumu Hara of the Graduate School of Engineering and Specially Appointed Associate Professor Hiroko Kamide of the Institute of Innovation for Future Society at Nagoya University, Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, in a joint study with Professor Yasue Mitsukura of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University, has made a new discovery concerning the relationship between noise and stress. This is a crucial factor for the sound social acceptance of the "aerial industrial revolution," where large numbers of drones and passenger-carrying flying cars will become widespread.
In this study, we prepared a simulator that allows users to experience flying cars overhead and compared stress levels related to "noise," a significant factor, using conscious questionnaire surveys and an unconscious Kansei analyzer based on simple electroencephalography (EEG) measurements.
The comparison revealed that after initial exposure to loud noise, reducing the volume tended to show stress relief in the questionnaires, whereas the Kansei analyzer indicated that unconscious stress was not easily alleviated.
This is expected to provide important insights for developing guidelines for the deployment of aerial infrastructure and for creating innovative aircraft that are friendly to society on the ground.
The results of this research were published on September 7, 2022, in the "Technical Journal of Advanced Mobility" ( Technical Support Activities | JUIDA ), a collection of technical papers issued by the Japan UAS Industrial Development Association (JUIDA).
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