PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE GUIDANCE DEVICE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE GUIDANCE METHOD

• Main Author: NODA SAORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 18.12.2023
• Subjects: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE

To allow a driver to more easily predict timing of switching between expiration and aspiration when guiding timing of respiration of the driver with the consecutive stimulation change.SOLUTION: A psychological state guidance device comprises: a rhythm decision unit 205 which decides a target respiration rhythm for changing the psychological state of a driver to the target state; and a respiration guidance control unit 206 which performs control of stimulation for guiding the driver to perform respiration according to the decided target respiration rhythm. The rhythm decision unit 205 decides an expiration period and an aspiration period as the target respiration rhythm. The respiration guidance control unit 206 causes second stimulation being the intermittent stimulation with a fixed interval in addition to first stimulation that is caused by allocating the consecutive stimulation changes in two patterns with different types of directivity for the same type of stimulation to the expiration period and the aspiration period.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】連続的な刺激の変化によって運転者の呼吸のタイミングを誘導する場合に、呼気と吸気との切り替えのタイミングを、運転者がより予測しやすくなる。【解決手段】運転者の心理状態を目標状態に変化させるための目標呼吸リズムを決定するリズム決定部２０５と、決定される目標呼吸リズムに合わせて運転者が呼吸を行うように誘導するための刺激の制御を行う呼吸誘導制御部２０６とを備え、リズム決定部２０５は、目標呼吸リズムとして、呼気期間と吸気期間とを決定し、呼吸誘導制御部２０６は、同一の種類の刺激についての、方向性が異なる２パターンの連続的な刺激の変化を、呼気期間と吸気期間とにそれぞれ割り当てて行わせる第１刺激に加え、一定間隔の断続的な刺激である第２刺激も行わせる。【選択図】図２