Techniques for automatically reducing annoyance levels of drivers when using driver monitoring systems

One or more non-transitory computer readable media including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate personalized in-vehicle alerts by performing the steps of:

• estimating an increase in a negative emotion associated with an occupant of a vehicle based on at least one characteristic of the occupant;
• determining that the increase is associated with a negative reaction to a first in-vehicle alert that has a first alert characteristic;
• in response, determining that the first alert characteristic should be replaced with a second alert characteristic;
• and
• causing at least a second in-vehicle alert to be generated that has the second alert characteristic instead of the first alert characteristic.

A system, comprising

• at least one memory storing instructions;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory that, when executing the instructions, perform the steps of:
• estimating an increase in a negative emotion associated with an occupant of a vehicle based on at least one characteristic of the occupant;
• determining that the increase is associated with a negative reaction to a first in-vehicle alert that has a first alert characteristic;
• in response, determining that the first alert characteristic should be replaced with a second alert characteristic;
• and
• causing at least a second in-vehicle alert to be generated that has the second alert characteristic instead of the first alert characteristic.