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A Systematic Review of Cybersickness

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Eugene NalivaikoAuthors Info & Claims

IE2014: Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Interactive Entertainment

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2677758.2677780

Published: 02 December 2014 Publication History

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The uptake of new interface technologies, such as the Oculus Rift have generated renewed interest in virtual reality especially for private entertainment use. However, long standing issues with unwanted side effects, such as nausea from cybersickness, continue to impact on the general use of devices such as head mounted displays. This in turn has slowed the uptake of more immersive interfaces for computer gaming and indeed more serious applications in training and health. In this paper we report a systematic review in the area of cybersickness with a focus on measuring the diverse symptoms experienced. Indeed the related conditions of simulator sickness and motion sickness have previously been well studied and yet many of the issues are unresolved. Here we report on these issues along with a number of measures, both subjective and objective in nature, using either questionnaires or psychophysiological measures that have been used to study cybersickness. We also report on the factors, individual, device related and task dependent that impact on the condition. We conclude that there remains a need to develop more cost-effective and objective physiological measures of both the impact of cybersickness and a person's susceptibility to the condition.

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A Systematic Review of Cybersickness
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
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