Control of a Virtual Vehicle Influences Postural Activity and Motion Sickness

Autor/inn/en	Dong, Xiao; Yoshida, Ken; Stoffregen, Thomas A.
Titel	Control of a Virtual Vehicle Influences Postural Activity and Motion Sickness
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 17 (2011) 2, S.128-138 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1076-898X
DOI	10.1037/a0024097
Schlagwörter	Video Games; Diseases; Motion; Visual Perception; Etiology; Research; Virtual Classrooms; Human Body; Computer Simulation; Visual Stimuli; Correlation; College Students; Laboratories; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Disease; Krankheit; Bewegungsablauf; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Ätiologie; Forschung; Menschlicher Körper; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Korrelation; Collegestudent; Laboratory; Laboratorium
Abstract	Everyday experience suggests that drivers are less susceptible to motion sickness than passengers. In the context of inertial motion (i.e., physical displacement), this effect has been confirmed in laboratory research using whole body motion devices. We asked whether a similar effect would occur in the context of simulated vehicles in a visual virtual environment. We used a yoked control design in which one member of each pair of participants played a driving video game (i.e., drove a virtual automobile). A recording of that performance was viewed (in a separate session) by the other member of the pair. Thus, the two members of each pair were exposed to identical visual motion stimuli, but the risk of behavioral contagion was minimized. Participants who drove the virtual vehicle (drivers) were less likely to report motion sickness than participants who viewed game recordings (passengers). Data on head and torso movement revealed that drivers tended to move more than passengers, and that the movements of drivers were more predictable than the movements of passengers. Before the onset of subjective symptoms of motion sickness movement differed between participants who (later) reported motion sickness and those who did not, consistent with a prediction of the postural instability theory of motion sickness. The results confirm that control is an important factor in the etiology of motion sickness and extend this finding to the control of noninertial virtual vehicles. (Contains 3 figures and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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