NRC Handelsblad, Science5 June 2014
Mind-reading car thinks along with you
By Ellen de Bruin. On the participants who took the wheel of the driving simulator wearing a swimming cap full of EEG electrodes.
← Publications and talks
June 2014
The car that reads your mind.
On 5 June 2014 I defended my thesis on driver support that adapts to the driver. One experiment caught the imagination: a cruise control that responds to brain activity. Over the following weeks the research appeared in newspapers, on the radio and on television.
nrc.next6 June 2014
'Careful, you're very tired now,' says the car
A day later in nrc.next, under the heading Smart technology: "Forget the Google Car, it isn't reliable yet // The alternative: a car that responds to your state of mind."
University of Groningen28 May 2014
Brain-controlled cruise control works in the driving simulator
The university's press release, picked up by Hersenen & Cognitie and Automatisering Gids.
"The idea was that a brain-controlled cruise control like this would raise the speed when driving became boring and lower it when the driving task became too demanding."Read the release in the web archive ↗
The driving simulator at the University of Groningen. This photo ran with the article in NRC.
NRC Handelsblad5 June 2014
On the front page
On the day of the defence, NRC pointed readers from its front page to the piece in the science section.
"The metaphor is a horse with a mind of its own, but you're the one in charge."
In NRC, 5 June 2014
What the computer sees: EEG signals and the patterns it uses to estimate mental workload.
NRC Q6 June 2014
Steering the car with your brain
In the round-up "What other media are reporting today":
"According to Dijksterhuis, the big advantage of a computer system like this is that drivers keep control over the car and over where they are going."
NOS Radio 1, Met het Oog op Morgen8 June 2014
The mind-reading computer
A six-minute conversation on the late-evening news programme, alongside the writer Remco Campert that night.
"Your car stops automatically when you're tired, if it's up to Chris Dijksterhuis."The page in the web archive ↗
The EEG cap: electrodes that measure the driver's brain activity.
Automatisering Gids10 June 2014
Car keeps an eye on the driver
By Rolf Zaal. On passive brain-computer interfaces, which pick up brain activity without the user consciously controlling anything.
RTV Noord12 June 2014
Falling asleep at the wheel, a thing of the past
A news item on radio and television from the regional broadcaster.
At the driving simulator, for the article in Computer Idee.
Computer Idee26 August 2014
Cruising with your brain
By Jolein de Rooij. Three pages on the smart car of the future, which keeps track of your head movements, your eyes and your brainwaves.
The view in the driving simulator, with the car's dashboard.
The press cuttings are extracts from the original articles, kept as a record. Most of the articles are no longer online; where they still can be found, a link goes to the web archive.