DRIVING SUPPORT CONTROL DEVICE AND DRIVING SUPPORT CONTROL METHOD

To appropriately support driving according to emotion of a driver.SOLUTION: A driving support control device comprises: a biological information acquiring unit that acquires biological information of a driver of a vehicle in current and past predetermined periods; an emotion determination unit that determines an emotional level indicating a degree of emotion of the driver in the current and past predetermined periods based on the biological information acquired by the biological information acquisition unit; a driving condition prediction unit that predicts a driving condition of the vehicle based on the emotional levels of the driver in the current and past predetermined periods when the current emotional level of the driver is determined to be equal to or higher than a first threshold; a driving support determination unit that determines whether or not a driving support of the vehicle is required based on the result of prediction of the driving condition of the vehicle by the driving condition prediction unit, and determines the content of the driving support of the vehicle when the driving support of the vehicle is required; and a driving support execution unit that executes the driving support determined by the driving support determination unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】運転者の感情に応じて運転を適切に支援すること。【解決手段】運転支援制御装置は、車両の運転者の現在及び過去の所定期間の生体情報を取得する生体情報取得部と、生体情報取得部が取得した生体情報に基づいて、現在及び過去の所定期間における運転者の感情の度合いを示す感情レベルを判定する感情判定部と、運転者の現在の感情レベルが第１閾値以上と判定された場合、運転者の現在及び過去の所定期間における感情レベルに基づいて、車両の運転状況を予測する運転状況予測部と、運転状況予測部による車両の運転状況の予測結果に基づいて、車両の運転支援が必要であるか否かを判定し、車両の運転支援が必要である場合に車両の運転支援の内容を決定する運転支援決定部と、運転支援決定部が決定した運転支援を実行する運転支援実行部と、を備える。【選択図】図１