Emotional Responses to Trouble Events on a Train-Driving Simulator

摘要

We explored emotion and error in encounters with trouble events on a railway-driving simulator.Forty train drivers participated in this experiment, carrying out four simulations including a totalof 12 trouble situations (three "troubles" in each course). We measured emotional responses andactions taken for those troubles. It was shown that emotions evoked by trouble encounters couldbe described by three factors and classified into four groups based on factor scores. Furthermore,the error rate of the fourth group, in which emotion was evoked strongly, was higher than in theother groups. These results suggest that in critical situations, emotion is strongly evoked andincreases the chance of error.