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Summary

See Table 6.1.


  
Table 6.1: Experiment AIIIE1: Independent Visual Background I (Low-End)
Background Motion sickness may arise from conflicting rest frames, rather than from conflicting motion cues per se. The visual rest frame is heavily influenced by the visual background.
Hypothesis A visual background in agreement with inertial cues should reduce simulator side-effects, even if the visual foreground is not in agreement with inertial cues.
Methods A circular vection stimuli was provided both with and without a stationary visual background. Measures included per-exposure postural instability and post-exposure reported simulator sickness.
Results Both postural instability (p < .03) and SSQ (p < .05) were significantly lower with a stationary visual background.
Conclusions The results support the hypothesis.



Jerrold Prothero
1998-05-14


Human Interface Technology Lab