Please Don’t Puke: Early Detection of Severe Motion Sickness in VR
PubDate: August 2018
Teams: USC Institute for Creative Technologies;Lewis & Clark College;Harvey Mudd College;
Writers: Courtney Hutton; Shelby Ziccardi; Julio Medina; Evan Suma Rosenbarg
PDF: Please Don’t Puke: Early Detection of Severe Motion Sickness in VR
Abstract
Motion sickness is a potentially debilitating side effect experienced by certain users of virtual reality systems. Unexpected results from a user study on redirected walking suggest that there is a need to quickly identify participants who have an extremely low tolerance for virtual motion manipulations and remove them from the experience. In this poster, we investigate the use of a previously introduced “fast motion sickness” measure to identify potential outliers with heightened levels of sensitivity. This work demonstrates a promising experimental methodology and suggests possible shared characteristics among users in this group.