Exploring Blink-Rate Behaviors for Cybersickness Detection in VR

Lopes, Phil; Tian, Nana; Boulic, Ronan

doi:10.1109/vrw50115.2020.00248

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“…Results are observed between two diverging groups, where one group consists solely of sessions where individuals reported to be cybersick while the other consists of sessions where individuals reported no cybersickness influence. This paper is an extension study of previous work by the authors [Lopes et al 2020].…”

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Eye Thought You Were Sick! Exploring Eye Behaviors for Cybersickness Detection in VR

Lopes

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Boulic

2020

Motion, Interaction and Games

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Cybersickness induced through Virtual Reality (VR) applications is still one of its main barriers as it can induce unwanted sideeffects in players, significantly hindering the overall experience. Despite the wealth of research available on this topic, it is still an unsolved problem. Although previous studies have explored methods of cybersickness mitigation in addition to correlating physiological factors, there has been little research on the potential correlation of eye behavior and cybersickness. Thanks to advances in eye-tracking technology within HMDs, detecting eye behavior has become a much easier process. This paper explores the differences of pupil position and blink rate in relation to cybersickness intensity. The latter is measured through the standard and a customized version of the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ). A total of 34 participant data was collected from two separate playing sessions of a VR maze game, where each session presented a unique control scheme.

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Eye Thought You Were Sick! Exploring Eye Behaviors for Cybersickness Detection in VR

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Tian

Boulic

2020

Motion, Interaction and Games

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“…The results suggest that the supine pose triggers more severe symptoms than the seated pose, even in the experienced VR user case. Tian et al (2020a) evaluated the factors of virtual vertical axis orientation and game types on cybersickness in supine posture. Results reveal that aligning the virtual and the real-world coordinate systems is effective in mitigating VR sickness in the supine posture, especially for games with acceleration.…”

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A review of cybersickness in head-mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility

2022

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Cybersickness still poses a significant challenge to the widespread usage of virtual reality, leading to different levels of discomfort and potentially breaking the immersive experience. Researchers have attempted to discover the possible fundamental causes of cybersickness for years. Despite the longstanding interest in the research field, inconsistent results have been drawn on the contributing factors and solutions to combating cybersickness. Moreover, little attention has been paid to individual susceptibility. A consolidated explanation remains under development, requiring more empirical studies with robust and reproducible methodologies. This review presents an integrated survey connecting the findings from previous review papers and the state of the art involving empirical studies and participants. A literature review is then presented, focusing on the practical studies of different contributing factors, the pros and cons of measurements, profiles of cybersickness, and solutions to reduce this phenomenon. Our findings suggest a lack of considerations regarding user susceptibility and gender balance in between groups studies. In addition, incongruities among empirical findings raised concerns. We conclude by suggesting points of insights for future empirical investigations.

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“…According to Gallagher and Ferrè, cybersickness influences psycho-physiological variables that can be measured with ECG (Electrocardiography, heart), EDA (Electrodermal activity, skin), or EEG (Electroencephalography, brain). Blink rate increase with exposure time and cybersickness (Lopes et al 2020). Therefore, we can also add to Gallagher and Ferrè's (2018) list the incidences on the visual system.…”

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A narrative review of immersive virtual reality’s ergonomics and risks at the workplace: cybersickness, visual fatigue, muscular fatigue, acute stress, and mental overload

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This narrative review synthesizes and introduces 386 previous works about virtual reality-induced symptoms and effects by focusing on cybersickness, visual fatigue, muscle fatigue, acute stress, and mental overload. Usually, these VRISE are treated independently in the literature, although virtual reality is increasingly considered an option to replace PCs at the workplace, which encourages us to consider them all at once. We emphasize the context of office-like tasks in VR, gathering 57 articles meeting our inclusion/exclusion criteria. Cybersickness symptoms, influenced by fifty factors, could prevent workers from using VR. It is studied but requires more research to reach a theoretical consensus. VR can lead to more visual fatigue than other screen uses, influenced by fifteen factors, mainly due to vergence-accommodation conflicts. This side effect requires more testing and clarification on how it differs from cybersickness. VR can provoke muscle fatigue and musculoskeletal discomfort, influenced by fifteen factors, depending on tasks and interactions. VR could lead to acute stress due to technostress, task difficulty, time pressure, and public speaking. VR also potentially leads to mental overload, mainly due to task load, time pressure, and intrinsically due interaction and interface of the virtual environment. We propose a research agenda to tackle VR ergonomics and risks issues at the workplace.

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Exploring Blink-Rate Behaviors for Cybersickness Detection in VR

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Eye Thought You Were Sick! Exploring Eye Behaviors for Cybersickness Detection in VR

Eye Thought You Were Sick! Exploring Eye Behaviors for Cybersickness Detection in VR

A review of cybersickness in head-mounted displays: raising attention to individual susceptibility

A narrative review of immersive virtual reality’s ergonomics and risks at the workplace: cybersickness, visual fatigue, muscular fatigue, acute stress, and mental overload

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