Alleviating Simulator Sickness with Galvanic Cutaneous Stimulation

Gálvez‐García, Germán; Hay, Marion; Gabaude, Catherine

doi:10.1177/0018720814554948

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“…The technique has found additional support in a study by Reed-Jones and colleagues [ 33 ], where simulator sickness was reduced by using GVS in a driving simulator. This is also supported by additional evidence, showing a preventive effect of galvanic stimulation on simulator sickness in a driving task, regardless of whether stimulation is applied during curve maneuvers or intermittently throughout the task [ 34 ].…”

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Influence of bone-conducted vibration on simulator sickness in virtual reality

2018

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Use of virtual reality (VR) technology is often accompanied by a series of unwanted symptoms, including nausea and headache, which are characterised as ‘simulator sickness’. Sensory mismatch has been thought to lie at the heart of the problem and recent studies have shown that reducing cue mismatch in VR can have a therapeutic effect. Specifically, electrical stimulation of vestibular afferent nerves (galvanic vestibular stimulation; GVS) can reduce simulator sickness in VR. However, GVS poses a risk to certain populations and can also result in negative symptoms in normal, healthy individuals. Here, we tested whether noisy vestibular stimulation through bone-vibration can also reduce symptoms of simulator sickness. We carried out two experiments in which participants performed a spatial navigation task in VR and completed the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire over a series of trials. Experiment 1 was conducted using a high-end projection-based VR display, whereas Experiment 2 involved the use of a consumer head mounted display. During each trial, vestibular stimulation was either: 1) absent; 2) coupled with large angular accelerations of the projection camera; or 3) applied randomly throughout each trial. In half of the trials, participants actively navigated using a motion controller, and in the other half they were moved passively through the environment along pre-recorded motion trajectories. In both experiments we obtained lower simulator sickness scores when vestibular stimulation was coupled with angular accelerations of the camera. This effect was obtained for both active and passive movement control conditions, which did not differ. The results suggest that noisy vestibular stimulation can reduce simulator sickness, and that this effect appears to generalize across VR conditions. We propose further examination of this stimulation technique.

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Influence of bone-conducted vibration on simulator sickness in virtual reality

2018

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“…Vestibular Stimulation applied during turns in a driving simulator was suggested to reduce scores in motion sickness questionnaires and improve performance (Reed-Jones et al 2007). In addition, Galvez-Garcia et al (2015) found that applying Galvanic Cutaneous Stimulation either continuously or intermittently while participants used a driving simulator reduced sickness scores relative to a condition with no stimulation. These results suggest that the use of artificial stimulation may be a potential method for preventing cybersickness in VR.…”

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“…First, if the vestibular system plays a fundamental role in cybersickness, one might predict that synchronised passive movements or artificial vestibular stimulation may reduce the conflict between visual and vestibular cues, preventing sickness and forgoing the need for sensory re-weighting function in order to adapt to the VR environment. Indeed, recent reports (Reed-Jones et al 2007;Cevette et al 2012;Galvez-Garcia et al 2015) have demonstrated that both galvanic vestibular stimulation and galvanic cutaneous stimulation can reduce sickness in simulators.…”

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Cybersickness: a Multisensory Integration Perspective

Gallagher

Ferrè

2018

Multisens. Res.

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In the past decade, there has been a rapid advance in Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Key to the user’s VR experience are multimodal interactions involving all senses. The human brain must integrate real-time vision, hearing, vestibular and proprioceptive inputs to produce the compelling and captivating feeling of immersion in a VR environment. A serious problem with VR is that users may develop symptoms similar to motion sickness, a malady called cybersickness. At present the underlying cause of cybersickness is not yet fully understood. Cybersickness may be due to a discrepancy between the sensory signals which provide information about the body’s orientation and motion: in many VR applications, optic flow elicits an illusory sensation of motion which tells users that they are moving in a certain direction with certain acceleration. However, since users are not actually moving, their proprioceptive and vestibular organs provide no cues of self-motion. These conflicting signals may lead to sensory discrepancies and eventually cybersickness. Here we review the current literature to develop a conceptual scheme for understanding the neural mechanisms of cybersickness. We discuss an approach to cybersickness based on sensory cue integration, focusing on the dynamic re-weighting of visual and vestibular signals for self-motion.

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“…For instance, Diamond and Markham (1991) found differences in spontaneous ocular torsion between astronauts who experienced sickness during space-flight compared to those who did not. Recent efforts to reduce visual-vestibular cue mismatch in VR support a partial vestibular basis for CS: Both galvanic vestibular stimulation (Cevette et al, 2012;Gálvez-García et al, 2015;Reed-Jones et al, 2007) and bone vibration applied near the vestibular organs (Weech et al, 2018) reduce the level of CS experienced during VR use. There is also a striking similarity between CS symptoms and the symptoms of vestibular labyrinthectomy-although the former are less severe than the latterwith the effects of labyrinthectomy including "nausea and vomiting… excessive perspiration……”

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Estimating the sensorimotor components of cybersickness

Weech

Varghese

Barnett‐Cowan

2018

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The user base of the virtual reality (VR) medium is growing, and many of these users will experience cybersickness. Accounting for the vast inter-individual variability in cybersickness forms a pivotal step in solving the issue. Most studies of cybersickness focus on a single factor (e.g., balance, sex, vection), while other contributors are overlooked. Here, we characterize the complex relationship between cybersickness and several indices of sensorimotor processing. In a single session, we conducted a battery of tests of balance control, vection responses, and vestibular sensitivity to self-motion. A principal components regression model, primarily composed of balance control measures during vection, significantly predicted 37% of the variability in cybersickness measures. We observed strong, inverse associations between measures of sway and cybersickness. The results reiterate that the relationship between balance control and cybersickness is anything but straightforward. We discuss other factors that may account for the remaining variance in cybersickness.

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Alleviating Simulator Sickness with Galvanic Cutaneous Stimulation

Cited by 42 publications

References 31 publications

Influence of bone-conducted vibration on simulator sickness in virtual reality

Influence of bone-conducted vibration on simulator sickness in virtual reality

Cybersickness: a Multisensory Integration Perspective

Estimating the sensorimotor components of cybersickness

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