Work in Progress

Can Visual Motion Presented in a VR Headset Reduce Motion Sickness for Vehicle Passengers?

Authors:

Katharina Margareta Theresa Pöhlmann,

Marc Stephan Kurt Auf Der Heyde,

Frans Verstraten,

Stephen Anthony Brewster,

Mark McGillAuthors Info & Claims

AutomotiveUI '22: Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Pages 114 - 118

https://doi.org/10.1145/3544999.3552488

Published: 17 September 2022 Publication History

Abstract

To make the rise of automated vehicles possible and to allow for their mass adoption, one major problem still needs to be solved: Motion sickness. Automated vehicles lead to increased motion sickness partly caused by an occlusion of the outside world (conflict between visual and vestibular system). In this study, we propose the usage of Virtual Reality (VR) headsets for productivity tasks while traveling as well as a motion sickness mitigation strategy. Car motion is simulated using a rotating chair while a reading task is presented in VR with or without visual motion cues being presented in the background. Visual motion cues showed a somewhat beneficial effect on motion sickness in this study without being perceived as too distracting from the primary reading task or affecting reading performance further highlighting the potential of VR usage in transport.

References

[1]

Jelte E Bos. 2015. Less sickness with more motion and/or mental distraction. Journal of Vestibular Research 25, 1 (2015), 23–33.

[2]

Jelte E Bos, Scott N MacKinnon, and Anthony Patterson. 2005. Motion sickness symptoms in a ship motion simulator: effects of inside, outside, and no view. Aviation, space, and environmental medicine 76, 12 (2005), 1111–1118.

[3]

Th Brandt, Johannes Dichgans, and Ellen Koenig. 1973. Differential effects of central versus peripheral vision on egocentric and exocentric motion perception. Experimental brain research 16, 5 (1973), 476–491.

[4]

Hyung-Jun Cho and Gerard J Kim. 2022. RideVR: Reducing Sickness for In-Car Virtual Reality by Mixed-in Presentation of Motion Flow Information. IEEE Access 10(2022), 34003–34011.

[5]

Abhraneil Dam and Myounghoon Jeon. 2021. A Review of Motion Sickness in Automated Vehicles. In 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. 39–48.

Digital Library

[6]

Ksander N de Winkel, Paolo Pretto, Suzanne AE Nooij, Iris Cohen, and Heinrich H Bülthoff. 2021. Efficacy of augmented visual environments for reducing sickness in autonomous vehicles. Applied Ergonomics 90(2021), 103282.

[7]

André Delorme and Christian Martin. 1986. Roles of retinal periphery and depth periphery in linear vection and visual control of standing in humans.Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie 40, 2(1986), 176.

[8]

Cyriel Diels and Jelte E Bos. 2016. Self-driving carsickness. Applied ergonomics 53(2016), 374–382.

[9]

PJ Feenstra, Jelte E Bos, and Ronald NHW van Gent. 2011. A visual display enhancing comfort by counteracting airsickness. Displays 32, 4 (2011), 194–200.

[10]

Sandra G Hart and Lowell E Staveland. 1988. Development of NASA-TLX (Task Load Index): Results of empirical and theoretical research. In Advances in psychology. Vol. 52. Elsevier, 139–183.

[11]

Ian P Howard and Thomas Heckmann. 1989. Circular vection as a function of the relative sizes, distances, and positions of two competing visual displays. Perception 18, 5 (1989), 657–665.

[12]

Julie Iskander, Mohammed Attia, Khaled Saleh, Darius Nahavandi, Ahmed Abobakr, Shady Mohamed, Houshyar Asadi, Abbas Khosravi, Chee Peng Lim, and Mohammed Hossny. 2019. From car sickness to autonomous car sickness: A review. Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour 62 (2019), 716–726.

[13]

Monica LH Jones, Victor C Le, Sheila M Ebert, Kathleen H Sienko, Matthew P Reed, and James R Sayer. 2019. Motion sickness in passenger vehicles during test track operations. Ergonomics 62, 10 (2019), 1357–1371.

[14]

Robert S Kennedy, Norman E Lane, Kevin S Berbaum, and Michael G Lilienthal. 1993. Simulator sickness questionnaire: An enhanced method for quantifying simulator sickness. The international journal of aviation psychology 3, 3 (1993), 203–220.

[15]

Robert S Kennedy, Kay M Stanney, and William P Dunlap. 2000. Duration and exposure to virtual environments: sickness curves during and across sessions. Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments 9, 5(2000), 463–472.

Digital Library

[16]

Ouren X Kuiper, Jelte E Bos, and Cyriel Diels. 2018. Looking forward: In-vehicle auxiliary display positioning affects carsickness. Applied Ergonomics 68(2018), 169–175.

[17]

Mark Mcgill, Aidan Kehoe, Euan Freeman, and Stephen Brewster. 2020. Expanding the bounds of seated virtual workspaces. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 27, 3(2020), 1–40.

Digital Library

[18]

Mark McGill, Gang Li, Alex Ng, Laura Bajorunaite, Julie Williamson, Frank Pollick, and Stephen Brewster. 2022. Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Passenger Experiences. In User Experience Design in the Era of Automated Driving. Springer, 445–475.

[19]

Mark McGill, Alexander Ng, and Stephen Brewster. 2017. I am the passenger: how visual motion cues can influence sickness for in-car VR. In Proceedings of the 2017 chi conference on human factors in computing systems. 5655–5668.

Digital Library

[20]

Mark McGill, Julie Williamson, Alexander Ng, Frank Pollick, and Stephen Brewster. 2020. Challenges in passenger use of mixed reality headsets in cars and other transportation. Virtual Reality 24, 4 (2020), 583–603.

Digital Library

[21]

Shinji Nakamura. 2006. Effects of depth, eccentricity and size of additional static stimulus on visually induced self-motion perception. Vision Research 46, 15 (2006), 2344–2353.

[22]

Shinji Nakamura and Shinsuke Shimojo. 1999. Critical role of foreground stimuli in perceiving visually induced self-motion (vection). Perception 28, 7 (1999), 893–902.

[23]

Katharina Margareta Theresa Pöhlmann, Julia Föcker, Patrick Dickinson, Adrian Parke, and Louise O’Hare. 2021. The effect of motion direction and eccentricity on vection, VR sickness and head movements in virtual reality. Multisensory Research 34, 6 (2021), 623–662.

[24]

James T Reason. 1978. Motion sickness adaptation: a neural mismatch model. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 71, 11 (1978), 819–829.

[25]

James T Reason and Joseph John Brand. 1975. Motion sickness.Academic press.

[26]

Bernhard E Riecke. 2011. Compelling self-motion through virtual environments without actual self-motion: using self-motion illusions (“vection”) to improve user experience in VR. Virtual reality 8, 1 (2011), 149–178.

[27]

Bernhard E Riecke, Jörg Schulte-Pelkum, Marios N Avraamides, Markus Von Der Heyde, and Heinrich H Bülthoff. 2006. Cognitive factors can influence self-motion perception (vection) in virtual reality. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) 3, 3 (2006), 194–216.

Digital Library

[28]

Bernhard E Riecke, Daniel Västfjäll, Pontus Larsson, and Jörg Schulte-Pelkum. 2005. Top-down and multi-modal influences on self-motion perception in virtual reality. In Proceedings of HCI international 2005. 1–10.

[29]

Spencer Salter, Doug Thake, Stratis Kanarachos, and Cyriel Diels. 2019. Motion sickness prediction device for automated vehicles. International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering 7, 2(2019), 68–74.

[30]

Takeharu Seno, Hiroyuki Ito, and Shoji Sunaga. 2009. The object and background hypothesis for vection. Vision research 49, 24 (2009), 2973–2982.

[31]

Graham Wilson, Mark McGill, Matthew Jamieson, Julie R Williamson, and Stephen A Brewster. 2018. Object manipulation in virtual reality under increasing levels of translational gain. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1–13.

Digital Library

[32]

Celina Zhou, Clara Luisa Bryan, Evan Wang, N Sertac Artan, and Ziqian Dong. 2019. Cognitive distraction to improve cybersickness in virtual reality environment. In 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems Workshops (MASSW). IEEE, 72–76.

Cited By

Stampf AColley M(2024)Deriving Non-Driving-Related Activities in Highly Automated Driving via an Autoethnographic Approach by Traveling Canada in a Recreational VehicleProceedings of Mensch und Computer 202410.1145/3670653.3670663(279-287)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3670653.3670663
Sabeti STavakoli AHeydarian AShoghli O(2024)MAD-IVE: Multi-Agent Distributed Immersive Virtual Environments for Vulnerable Road User Research—Potential, Challenges, and RequirementsComputing in Civil Engineering 202310.1061/9780784485248.133(1113-1120)Online publication date: 25-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784485248.133
Jeon HJo TYeo DAn EKang YKim S(2024)The way of water: exploring the role of interaction elements in usability challenges with in-car VR experienceVirtual Reality10.1007/s10055-024-01001-328:3Online publication date: 7-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10055-024-01001-3
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Can Visual Motion Presented in a VR Headset Reduce Motion Sickness for Vehicle Passengers?
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

Recommendations

You spin me right round, baby, right round: Examining the Impact of Multi-Sensory Self-Motion Cues on Motion Sickness During a VR Reading Task
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Motion sickness is a problem for many in everyday travel and will become more prevalent with the rise of automated vehicles. Virtual Reality (VR) headsets have shown significant promise in-transit, enabling passengers to engage in immersive entertainment ...
Display Rotation for Reducing Motion Sickness Caused by Using VR in Vehicles
AutomotiveUI '22: Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Virtual Reality systems have the potential to change the way we interact with digital content in vehicles. However, wearing a VR headset in a vehicle may increase the chances of experiencing motion sickness. There is an open question as to how to convey ...
How Visual Motion Cues Can Influence Sickness For In-Car VR
CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

This video demonstrates our research into the use of VR Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) in-car and in-motion. Immersive HMDs offer new possibilities for entertainment and productivity during travel. However, their use is confounded by motion sickness, ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

AutomotiveUI '22: Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

September 2022

225 pages

ISBN:9781450394284

DOI:10.1145/3544999

General Chairs:
Yong Gu Ji
Yonsei University, South Korea
,
Myounghoon Jeon
Virginia Tech, USA

Copyright © 2022 Owner/Author.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

Sponsors

SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 17 September 2022

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Work in progress
Research
Refereed limited

Funding Sources

European Research Council

Conference

AutomotiveUI '22

Sponsor:

SIGCHI

AutomotiveUI '22: 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

September 17 - 20, 2022

Seoul, Republic of Korea

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 248 of 566 submissions, 44%

Upcoming Conference

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

8
Total Citations
View Citations
378
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)169
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)9

Reflects downloads up to 30 Aug 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Stampf AColley M(2024)Deriving Non-Driving-Related Activities in Highly Automated Driving via an Autoethnographic Approach by Traveling Canada in a Recreational VehicleProceedings of Mensch und Computer 202410.1145/3670653.3670663(279-287)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3670653.3670663
Sabeti STavakoli AHeydarian AShoghli O(2024)MAD-IVE: Multi-Agent Distributed Immersive Virtual Environments for Vulnerable Road User Research—Potential, Challenges, and RequirementsComputing in Civil Engineering 202310.1061/9780784485248.133(1113-1120)Online publication date: 25-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784485248.133
Jeon HJo TYeo DAn EKang YKim S(2024)The way of water: exploring the role of interaction elements in usability challenges with in-car VR experienceVirtual Reality10.1007/s10055-024-01001-328:3Online publication date: 7-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10055-024-01001-3
Sumayli YYe Y(2023)Motion Sickness during Roll Motion: VR HMD View versus Monitor ViewVibration10.3390/vibration60100046:1(45-56)Online publication date: 6-Jan-2023
https://doi.org/10.3390/vibration6010004
Al-Taie APöhlmann KGoodge TMatviienko APollick FBrewster SWard JMcGill MMarky K(2023)Cyborgs on the Road: Workshop on Augmenting Road Users to Quantify their BehaviourProceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 202310.1145/3582700.3582730(374-378)Online publication date: 12-Mar-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582700.3582730
Qiu ZMcgill MPöhlmann KBrewster S(2023)Manipulating the Orientation of Planar 2D Content in VR as an Implicit Visual Cue for Mitigating Passenger Motion SicknessProceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications10.1145/3580585.3607157(1-10)Online publication date: 18-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3580585.3607157
Emond WBohrmann DZare M(2023)Will visual cues help alleviating motion sickness in automated cars? A review articleErgonomics10.1080/00140139.2023.228618767:6(772-800)Online publication date: 24-Nov-2023
https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2023.2286187
Xie WHe DWu G(2023)Inducers of motion sickness in vehicles: A systematic review of experimental evidence and meta-analysisTransportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour10.1016/j.trf.2023.10.01399(167-188)Online publication date: Nov-2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.10.013

View Options

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

HTML Format

View this article in HTML Format.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents