Why cybersickness?
conference paper
This paper reviews a framework explaining motion sickness in general and cybersickness in particular. It takes the control of body motion as a starting point. An essential problem concerns the ambiguity between gravity and inertia. Although visual information can be used to make the distinction between these two phenomena, the visual system is yet too slow for accurate control of active body motion. The result of the apparent unsolvable ambiguity is a conflict between sensory and expected signals in a number of cases, such as when viewing certain visual motion unaccompanied by congruent physical motion, the conflict being highly correlated with sickness severity.
TNO Identifier
19164
Source title
The 1st International Symposium on Visually Induced Motion Sickness, Fatigue, and Photosensitive Epileptic Seizures, VIMS2007), 10-11 December 2007, Hong Kong, China
Collation
7 p.
Pages
11-17
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