TY - GEN
T1 - I think I don't feel sick
T2 - 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
AU - Pöhlmann, Katharina Margareta
AU - Maior, Horia A.
AU - Föcker, Julia
AU - O'Hare, Louise
AU - Parke, Adrian
AU - Ladowska, Aleksandra
AU - Dickinson, Patrick
N1 - Funding Information:
Data Access Statement Data sets for behavioural and fNIRS data are available for researchers upon request. This research received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (#835197, ViAjeRo) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/T022493/1].
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PY - 2023/4/19
Y1 - 2023/4/19
N2 - Virtual Reality (VR) applications commonly use the illusion of self-motion (vection) to simulate experiences such as running, driving, or flying. However, this can lead to cybersickness, which diminishes the experience of users, and can even lead to disengagement with this platform. In this paper we present a study in which we show that users performing a cognitive task while experiencing a VR rollercoaster reported reduced symptoms of cybersickness. Furthermore, we collected and analysed brain activity data from our participants during their experience using functional near infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS): preliminary analysis suggests the possibility that this technology may be able to detect the experience of cybersickness. Together, these results can assist the creators of VR experiences, both through mitigation of cybersickness in the design process, and by better understanding the experiences of their users.
AB - Virtual Reality (VR) applications commonly use the illusion of self-motion (vection) to simulate experiences such as running, driving, or flying. However, this can lead to cybersickness, which diminishes the experience of users, and can even lead to disengagement with this platform. In this paper we present a study in which we show that users performing a cognitive task while experiencing a VR rollercoaster reported reduced symptoms of cybersickness. Furthermore, we collected and analysed brain activity data from our participants during their experience using functional near infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS): preliminary analysis suggests the possibility that this technology may be able to detect the experience of cybersickness. Together, these results can assist the creators of VR experiences, both through mitigation of cybersickness in the design process, and by better understanding the experiences of their users.
KW - cognitive demand
KW - cybersickness
KW - fNIRS
KW - HMD
KW - virtual reality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85160018184&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3544548.3581063
DO - 10.1145/3544548.3581063
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85160018184
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2023
A2 - Schmidt, Albrecht
A2 - Väänänen, Kaisa
A2 - Goyal, Tesh
A2 - Kristensson, Per Ola
A2 - Peters, Anicia
A2 - Mueller, Stefanie
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 23 April 2023 through 28 April 2023
ER -