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Characteristic changes in the physiological components of cybersickness
Author(s) -
Kim Young Youn,
Kim Hyun Ju,
Kim Eun Nam,
Ko Hee Dong,
Kim Hyun Taek
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00349.x
Subject(s) - simulator sickness , psychology , autonomic nervous system , electroencephalography , audiology , motion sickness , virtual reality , correlation , heart rate variability , heart rate , physical medicine and rehabilitation , developmental psychology , neuroscience , medicine , blood pressure , psychiatry , computer science , human–computer interaction , geometry , mathematics
We investigated the characteristic changes in the physiology of cybersickness when subjects were exposed to virtual reality. Sixty‐one participants experienced a virtual navigation for a total of 9.5 min, and were required to detect specific virtual objects. Three questionnaires for sickness susceptibility and immersive tendency were obtained before the navigation. Sixteen electrophysiological signals were recorded before, during, and after the navigation. The severity of cybersickness experienced by participants was reported from a simulator sickness questionnaire after the navigation. The total severity of cybersickness had a significant positive correlation with gastric tachyarrhythmia, eyeblink rate, heart period, and EEG delta wave and a negative correlation with EEG beta wave. These results suggest that cybersickness accompanies the pattern changes in the activities of the central and the autonomic nervous systems.