Presentation
Mitigating Visually Induced Motion Sickness: A Virtual Hand-Eye Coordination Task
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
(2015)
Abstract
Virtual reality has grown rapidly over the past decade, yet visually induced motion sickness (VIMS),
continues to affect the usability of this technology. Aside from medicine, physical hand-eye-coordination
tasks have been found to be effective in mitigating symptoms of VIMS, however the need for equipment
outside of virtual reality limits the usefulness of these mitigation techniques. In this study, 21 participants
were sickened via a virtual obstacle course and used one of two mitigation techniques. The first, natural
decay, is simply waiting outside the virtual environment (VE) for symptoms to subside; the other was a
virtual peg-in-hole task, performed in the VE with a gamepad. A paired samples t-test confirmed that the
virtual obstacle course induced VIMS. Both mitigation techniques significantly lessened the symptoms of
VIMS, but there were no significant differences in the effectiveness of mitigation between the two
techniques. A virtual mitigation method allowing continued immersion in a VE would pave the way for
long-term immersion virtual reality studies, involving topics such as vigilance or training.
Disciplines
Publication Date
December 20, 2015
Location
Los Angeles, CA
DOI
10.1177/1541931215591397
Comments
Copyright 2015 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Posted with permission.
Citation Information
Michael K. Curtis, Kayla Dawson, Kelli Jackson, Liat Litwin, et al.. "Mitigating Visually Induced Motion Sickness: A Virtual Hand-Eye Coordination Task" Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jonathan_kelly/14/