On the 6th of June, I presented a
co-authored paper entitled "Investigating motion sickness techniques for
immersive virtual environments" at the 12th ACM International Conference
on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments at Rhodes, Greece. Motion
sickness is one of important issues in immersive virtual environments. In some
cases it may last for hours after participation in the virtual experience.
Reducing the amount of motion sickness in healthcare applications is of great
importance.
The paper examined how motion
sickness can be reduced in immersive virtual environments. Two visual methods
were designed to assess how they could help to alleviate motion sickness. The
first method is the presence of a frame of reference and the second method is
the visible path. Four testing groups were formed: two for each individual
method, one combining both methods and one control group (each group consisted
of 15 healthy subjects). Results show that there is a pattern in the data favouring
visual path as a better method against motion sickness.
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