Predictors of visually induced motion sickness in women

Hemmerich, Wanja; Shahal, Avner; Hecht, Heiko

doi:10.1016/j.displa.2018.11.005

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“…We found no effect of social desirability on vection, which also has previously been shown not to affect susceptibility to motion sickness (Hemmerich, Shahal, & Hecht, 2019). In fact, this is a promising finding for vection research in general, as it suggests that the level of vection reported during experimental research is likely not affected by reporting biases due to social desirability.…”

Section: Exploration Of Personality Trait Effects and Sex On Vectionsupporting

confidence: 73%

The role of cognitive factors and personality traits in the perception of illusory self-motion (vection)

D’Amour

Harris

Berti

et al. 2021

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Vection is a perceptual phenomenon that describes the visually induced subjective sensation of self-motion in the absence of physical motion. Previous research has discussed the potential involvement of top-down cognitive mechanisms on vection. Here, we quantified how cognitive manipulations such as contextual information (i.e., expectation) and plausibility (i.e., chair configuration) alter vection. We also explored how individual traits such as field dependence, depersonalization, anxiety, and social desirability might be related to vection. Fifty-one healthy adults were exposed to an optic flow stimulus that consisted of horizontally moving black-and-white bars presented on three adjacent monitors to generate circular vection. Participants were divided into three groups and given experimental instructions designed to induce either strong, weak, or no expectation with regard to the intensity of vection. In addition, the configuration of the chair (rotatable or fixed) was modified during the experiment. Vection onset time, duration, and intensity were recorded. Results showed that expectation altered vection intensity, but only when the chair was in the rotatable configuration. Positive correlations for vection measures with field dependence and depersonalization, but no sex-related effects were found. Our results show that vection can be altered by cognitive factors and that individual traits can affect the perception of vection, suggesting that vection is not a purely perceptual phenomenon, but can also be affected by top-down mechanisms.

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Section: Exploration Of Personality Trait Effects and Sex On Vectionsupporting

confidence: 73%

The role of cognitive factors and personality traits in the perception of illusory self-motion (vection)

D’Amour

Harris

Berti

et al. 2021

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…We did not find a significant main effect of gender, probably due to the small number of male subjects. The positive correlation of FMS and gender indicates that women tended to experience higher FMS scores than men, which is often the case in larger samples (but see Hemmerich et al, 2019).…”

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“…Although a strong relationship between heart-rate/heartrate variability and VIMS could not be established in the past (Mullen et al, 1998), we added these measures to gather further insights into the physiological changes associated with VIMS. Perceptual measures (vection, immersion, realism) regarding the stimulus were collected following stimulus presentation and are analyzed in relationship to FMS ratings (Fast Motion Sickness Scale; Keshavarz et al, 2014Keshavarz et al, , 2015 and gender (Hemmerich et al, 2019). While the relationship between vection and VIMS is not yet fully understood, the probability of experiencing VIMS increases with the occurrence of vection, making it a potential prerequisite for VIMS, given that other factors are also in place (Keshavarz et al, 2015).…”

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Visually Induced Motion Sickness on the Horizon

Hemmerich

Keshavarz

Hecht

2020

Front. Virtual Real.

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Visually induced motion sickness is an unpleasant but common side-effect of many simulations and VR-applications. We investigated whether an earth-fixed reference frame provided in the simulation is able to reduce motion sickness. To do so, we created a moving starfield that did not contain any indicators of the spatial orientation of the observer. As the observer was simulated to move through the randomly oscillating starfield, a time-to-contact task had to be carried out. Two colored stars on collision course with each other had to be spotted, then they disappeared and the time of their collision had to be judged. Eye-movements, task performance, and motion sickness were recorded. This condition without visual reference to the observer's upright was supplemented with three conditions containing either an earth-fixed fixation cross, an earth-fixed horizon line, or a line that was yoked to the head. Results show that only the earth-fixed horizon was able to significantly reduce visually induced motion sickness. Thus, a mere earth-stationary anchor does not suffice, a clear indication of earth horizontal seems necessary to reap a modest benefit.

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“…In a study that examined the effects of the a HMD system, 56% of participants reported feeling sick and 77% of them were women (Munafo et al, 2017). Although there has not been a clear rationale for explaining sex differences related to motion sickness, it has been discussed that the hormonal differences between sexes can play a role (Hemmerich et al, 2019).…”

Section: Simulator Sicknessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has also been discussed that female hormone levels are correlated to the susceptibility of motion sickness among women (Hemmerich et al, 2019;Meissner et al, 2009). Women with high menstrual pain scored higher on the motion sickness scale compared to women with low menstrual pain and men (Hemmerich et al, 2019). Severity of menstrual pain varies across women depending on their menstrual cycle and hormone levels.…”

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A Pilot Study: Energy Expenditure, Enjoyment, and Simulator Sickness During Virtual Reality Cycle Gaming

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Predictors of visually induced motion sickness in women

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

The role of cognitive factors and personality traits in the perception of illusory self-motion (vection)

The role of cognitive factors and personality traits in the perception of illusory self-motion (vection)

Visually Induced Motion Sickness on the Horizon

A Pilot Study: Energy Expenditure, Enjoyment, and Simulator Sickness During Virtual Reality Cycle Gaming

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