Respiratory impact on motion sickness induced by linear motion

Motion sickness incidence (MSI) for vertical sinusoidal motion reaches a maximum at 0.167 Hz. Normal breathing frequency is close to this frequency. There is some evidence for synchronization of breathing with this stimulus frequency. If this enforced breathing takes place over a larger frequency range (0.05-0.8 Hz) and whether this contributes...

Motion sickness symptoms in a ship motion simulator: Effects of inside, outside, and no view

Vehicle motion characteristics differ between air, road, and sea environments, both vestibularly and visually. Effects of vision on motion sickness have been studied before, though less systematically in a naval setting. It is hypothesized that appropriate visual information on self-motion is beneficial in a naval setting and that task...

Motion fidelity during a simulated takeoff

In this psychophysical study, seven airline pilots reported on their perceived self-motion in response to variations of motion filter gains during a simulated takeoff. Each pilot participated both as pilot flying and pilot non-flying. In order to vary the gains of the simulated linear acceleration and the rotation independently, a "direct pitch"...

Eye movements to yaw, pitch, and roll about vertical and horizontal axes: adaptation, and motion sickness

Background: In the search for parameters to predict motion sickness that can be measured in the laboratory, we performed a longitudinal investigation in aviators. Since the vestibular system is involved in the generation of motion sickness as well as eye movements, vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) parameters seemed relevant. We investigated three...

Saccular impact on ocular torsion

When someone is tilted laterally the sheer force on the maculae of the utriculus and the sacculus is described by the sine and the cosine of the angle of tilt, respectively. So both the sacculus and the utriculus are stimulated, but in the litera-ture ocular torsion is normally attributed to utricular function alone (and thus seen as a response...