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Preliminary Investigation of the Association Between Driving Pleasure and Brain Activity with Mapper-based Topological Data Analysis

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This study explores the factors contributing to driving pleasure by analyzing multimodal data, including physiological, behavioral, and psychological measures. The Mapper method is used to construct shape graphs, capturing the temporal dynamics of brain activity patterns and their association with driving pleasure. Road geometries are manipulated to investigate their impact on driving pleasure. The results revealed that the difference in road geometry correlated with subjective driving pleasure and was also reflected in the structure of the shape graph. Besides, there were challenges in estimating emotions from facial expressions. The study highlighted the potential of Mapper-based analysis in understanding driving pleasure.

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Abbreviations

fNIRS:

Functional Near-infrared spectroscopy

PPG:

Photoplethysmogram

HR:

Heartrate

SDD:

Short-distance detector

SSR:

Short separation regression

TDA:

Topological data analysis

TCM:

Temporal connectivity matrix

DyNeuSR:

Dynamical neuroimaging spatiotemporal representations

DBSCAN:

Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise

DLPFC:

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

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    Kensuke Tanioka, Tomoyuki Hiroyasu & Satoru Hiwa

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SI and SH designed and performed experiments, analyzed data, and wrote the manuscript. KT and TH discussed the results. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Isojima, S., Tanioka, K., Hiroyasu, T. et al. Preliminary Investigation of the Association Between Driving Pleasure and Brain Activity with Mapper-based Topological Data Analysis. Int. J. ITS Res. 21, 424–436 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13177-023-00371-3

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