Investigation of visually induced motion sickness: a comparison of mitigation techniques in real and virtual environments

Curtis, Michael K.

doi:10.31274/etd-180810-3639

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“…In RND, participants sat quietly in a room with their eyes open or shut, so there may have been fewer visual stimuli to focus on compared to the VND environment. Because there is extremely limited research on VND (e.g., Curtis, 2014), these findings bolster credibility for the benefits of VND. It remains unclear if virtual natural decay requires prolonged recovery periods, like the real-world version, in order to be fully effective.…”

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confidence: 67%

“…After 1 h in a virtual environment, participants who completed the hand-eye coordination task had a significant reduction in VIMS. A more recent study also found that the real hand-eye task significantly mitigated VIMS (Curtis, 2014). It is possible that hand-eye coordination tasks require ocular focus and proprioception to accomplish their respective tasks, thus reconciling sensory systems and reestablishing depth perception.…”

Section: Real Hand-eye Coordination Taskmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…The virtual hand-eye task successfully reduced VIMS following VR exposure (Curtis et al, 2015) and may be an alternative for the real-world version of the technique. Curtis (2014) also investigated virtual natural decay, which did not perform significantly different from the real natural decay. While these mitigation techniques have shown evidence of VIMS mitigation, it is unclear how all four perform relative to one another.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Visually Induced Motion Sickness Susceptibility and Recovery Based on Four Mitigation Techniques

Jasper¹,

Cone²,

Meusel³

et al. 2020

Front. Virtual Real.

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Virtual reality (VR) usage continues to grow, but visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) can decrease VR effectiveness for some users. This study seeks to compare methods of VIMS mitigation and explore sickness among gender and video game experience groups. Participant discomfort and early dropout are problems for studies that involve virtual environment (VE) exposure, but previous research has demonstrated that natural decay and physical, real-world hand-eye coordination tasks can serve as effective mitigation strategies. In this study, 57 participants wore a head-mounted display (HMD) and navigated a maze VE designed to induce cybersickness. Participants then experienced one of four mitigation techniques: real natural decay (HMD off), virtual natural decay (HMD on with idyllic VE and no locomotion), real hand-eye coordination task (HMD off), and virtual hand-eye coordination task (HMD on). Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ) measures were taken periodically throughout maze and mitigation tasks. Results demonstrated that peak sickness during the maze VE occurred after approximately 10 min. Analyses of mitigation techniques showed that real natural decay resulted in significantly more sickness recovery when compared with the virtual hand-eye coordination task for SSQ total score, nausea, and oculomotor constructs, but not disorientation. The real natural decay technique was the most effective at bringing participants' final sickness measure back to their initial baseline measure; however, other mitigation techniques yielded effectiveness, but at a lower rate. This study extends previous research about hand-eye mitigation approaches by demonstrating that natural decay and hand-eye tasks in a virtual and real-world setting were effective in reducing VIMS. Real-world natural decay was the most effective at mitigating VIMS, and the virtual hand-eye task was not as effective as the other three tasks. Women experienced more VIMS than men did but also recovered than men did during mitigation. Video gamers experienced less VIMS than non-gamers. These findings bolster extant knowledge about VIMS mitigation techniques and can inform future development of virtual mitigation techniques.

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Visually Induced Motion Sickness Susceptibility and Recovery Based on Four Mitigation Techniques

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Cone²,

Meusel³

et al. 2020

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…However, the real hand-eye task resulted in lower VIMS than the virtual hand-eye task. It is also worth noting that Curtis (2014) did not find significant VIMS mitigation differences between the real natural decay and the virtual natural decay conditions, but no other research could be found regarding virtual natural decay. These findings suggest that a virtual hand-eye coordination task could be a potential solution for reducing VIMS symptoms while remaining in a virtual environment.…”

Section: Virtual Mitigationmentioning

confidence: 77%

Cybersickness in virtual reality as a function of individual differences and scalable task workload

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Investigation of visually induced motion sickness: a comparison of mitigation techniques in real and virtual environments

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Visually Induced Motion Sickness Susceptibility and Recovery Based on Four Mitigation Techniques

Visually Induced Motion Sickness Susceptibility and Recovery Based on Four Mitigation Techniques

Cybersickness in virtual reality as a function of individual differences and scalable task workload

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