Identifying Cybersickness When Wearing a Head-Mounted Display through Heart Rate Variability Data. Issue 1 (July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Setiowati, N O; Wijayanto, T; Trapsilawati, F
• Is Part Of: IOP conference series. Volume 885:Issue 1(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-07
• Subjects: Materials science -- Periodicals; 620.1105
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/885/1/012069
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-8981

Abstract

Abstract: Cybersickness is one of the common problems related to Virtual Reality (VR). The symptoms are classified into three categories: nausea, oculomotor, and disorientation. The purpose of this study is to identify cybersickness symptoms based on simulator sickness questionnaire (SSQ) and physiological signal using heart rate variability (HRV) when wearing a head-mounted display. Fifteen participants performed a 15-min driving simulation task using head-mounted display. From the SSQ results, the most dominant category of cybersickness symptoms induced by participants are nausea and disorientation. The results showed a correlation between the nausea score and the high frequency (HF)/component of HRV (r=0.618, p=0.032) as well as the ratio of low and high frequency component (LF/HF) (r=-0.718, p=0.009). These findings confirm that the occurrence of nausea when wearing a head-mounted display is influenced by the activation of sympathetic nervous system.