Absence of Gender Differences in Actual Induced HMD Motion Sickness vs. Pretrial Susceptibility Ratings. (September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wilson, Michael L.; Kinsela, Amelia J.
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society ... Annual Meeting. Volume 61:Part 1(2017)
• Page Start: 1313
• Page End: 1316
• Publication Date: 2017-09
• Subjects: Human engineering -- Congresses; 620.8205
• DOI: 10.1177/1541931213601810
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1541-9312

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report the gender differences in motion sickness susceptibility and reported sickness levels experienced during a study to determine how latency in a head-mounted display affects human performance. This experiment used a camera feeding an image of the room to an HMD to examine performance on a point and shoot task with added latency in a HMD. Twenty-nine participants completed a repeated measures study in which they performed a simple object location targeting task in base and varying latency conditions. Results showed a significant difference between genders in the pre-trial susceptibility rating using the MSSQ-S. Results also indicated that the participants' sickness levels increased during their exposure to the HMD latency stimulus based on their SSQ scores. Further, when the sickness levels were examined, there were no differences found between male and female participants. As a result, gender should not be used as an exclusion factor in determining whether or not to use HMD and VR devices.