Motion sickness. Part II: experimental verification on the railways of a model for predicting motion sickness incidence. (1st January 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Braccesi, Claudio; Cianetti, Filippo; Elia, Alessandro
• Is Part Of: International journal of human factors modelling and simulation. Volume 2:Number 3(2011)
• Page Start: 188
• Page End: 203
• Publication Date: 2011-01-01
• Subjects: motion sickness -- subjective vertical conflict theory -- railway -- Slovenia; Human-computer interaction -- Periodicals; Human-machine systems -- Periodicals; 004.019
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-5549

Abstract

This is the second part of a two-part paper in which a new theoretical approach for predicting motion sickness is experimentally validated by field measurements. In this paper, an extended research activity aimed at the validation of a theoretical model (developed by the authors to evaluate the MSI index) is illustrated. The motion sickness incidence ( MSI ) index represents the percentage of people that vomit within a certain time interval and was defined to evaluate the passengers' response to low frequency motions. The activity was aimed to a rail scenario and it was conducted together with a well-known company in the railway industry. The rail tests were performed in Slovenia during 2005 (European research project 'FACT: Fast and Comfortable Trains'). In the paper, a comparison is made between the results, expressed in terms of MSI values and time histories, obtained from experimental results ( subjective measures acquired using questionnaires) and by the authors' theoretical model (starting from experimental objective measures acquired in the form of acceleration time histories).