Negative Effects Associated with HMDs in Augmented and Virtual Reality

Descheneaux, Charles R.; Reinerman-Jones, Lauren; Moss, Jason D.; Krum, David M.; Hudson, Irwin

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49695-1_27

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“…The following symptoms characterize cybersickness: visual fatigue, headache, pallor, sweating, dry mouth, full stomach, disorientation, dizziness, ataxia (movements coordination), nausea, and tiredness (Lawson 2014;Davis et al 2014;Rebenitsch and Owen 2016;Bockelman and Lingum 2017;Nesbitt and Nalivaiko 2018;Descheneaux et al 2020;Chang et al 2020). During the first popularization phase of HMDs in the 90 s, there was optimism about the ability to "cure" cybersickness (Biocca 1992).…”

Section: Cybersickness Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the exact psycho-physiological causes and the most parsimonious theories are not sufficient to explain cybersickness (Davis et al 2014;Nesbitt and Nalivaiko 2018;Weech et al 2018;Descheneaux et al 2020;Stanney et al 2020b;Howard and Van Zandt 2021). Therefore, the actual models describing and explaining cybersickness remain under debate.…”

Section: Cybersickness Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on the latest reviews and systematic reviews (Koohestani et al 2019;Descheneaux et al 2020;Kemeny et al 2020;Saredakis et al 2020;Stanney et al 2020b), we can infer that contributions regarding cybersickness concentrate on the visual-vestibular-proprioceptive conflicts (like motion sickness) issue. Contributions rarely focus on visual fatigue, i.e., vergence-accommodation conflict (Fuchs 2017;Souchet 2020;Chang et al 2020;Souchet et al 2021a).…”

Section: Cybersickness and Working In Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Vi sual fatigue is listed as one of cybersickness's symptoms (Lawson 2014;Davis et al 2014;Rebenitsch and Owen 2016;Bockelman and Lingum 2017;Nesbitt and Nalivaiko 2018;Descheneaux et al 2020;Chang et al 2020). However, visual fatigue and visually induced motion sickness seem different but with a small relation (Bando et al 2012;Yuan et al 2018;Wang et al 2019).…”

Section: Disambiguation Of Cybersickness and Visual Fatiguementioning

confidence: 99%

“…3.1.1, the theory most widely employed is the sensory conflict theory of motion sickness. Vergence-accommodation conflict is usually listed in cybersickness descriptions (Nesbitt and Nalivaiko 2018;Descheneaux et al 2020;Chang et al 2020;Stanney et al 2020b; Rebenitsch and Owen 2021) but without clearly demonstrating if it is predicted by the sensory conflict theory of motion sickness. Like visual fatigue in VR, cybersickness relies on the concept of conflicts between "sensorimotor" systems (Weech et al 2018;Stanney et al 2020b).…”

Section: Visual Fatigue and Cybersickness Intersect Theoretically But...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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