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Main Authors: Zielasko, Daniel, Meißner, Alexander, Freitag, Sebastian, Weyers, Benjamin, Kuhlen, Torsten W.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07992
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author Zielasko, Daniel
Meißner, Alexander
Freitag, Sebastian
Weyers, Benjamin
Kuhlen, Torsten W.
author_facet Zielasko, Daniel
Meißner, Alexander
Freitag, Sebastian
Weyers, Benjamin
Kuhlen, Torsten W.
contents Various factors influence the degree of cybersickness a user can suffer in an immersive virtual environment, some of which can be controlled without adapting the virtual environment itself. When using HMDs, one example is the size of the field of view. However, the degree to which factors like this can be manipulated without affecting the user negatively in other ways is limited. Another prominent characteristic of cybersickness is that it affects individuals very differently. Therefore, to account for both the possible disruptive nature of alleviating factors and the high interpersonal variance, a promising approach may be to intervene only in cases where users experience discomfort symptoms, and only as much as necessary. Thus, we conducted a first experiment, where the field of view was decreased when people feel uncomfortable, to evaluate the possible positive impact on sickness and negative influence on presence. While we found no significant evidence for any of these possible effects, interesting further results and observations were made.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Field of View Reduction Related to Subjective Sickness Measures in an HMD-based Data Analysis Task
Zielasko, Daniel
Meißner, Alexander
Freitag, Sebastian
Weyers, Benjamin
Kuhlen, Torsten W.
Human-Computer Interaction
Various factors influence the degree of cybersickness a user can suffer in an immersive virtual environment, some of which can be controlled without adapting the virtual environment itself. When using HMDs, one example is the size of the field of view. However, the degree to which factors like this can be manipulated without affecting the user negatively in other ways is limited. Another prominent characteristic of cybersickness is that it affects individuals very differently. Therefore, to account for both the possible disruptive nature of alleviating factors and the high interpersonal variance, a promising approach may be to intervene only in cases where users experience discomfort symptoms, and only as much as necessary. Thus, we conducted a first experiment, where the field of view was decreased when people feel uncomfortable, to evaluate the possible positive impact on sickness and negative influence on presence. While we found no significant evidence for any of these possible effects, interesting further results and observations were made.
title Dynamic Field of View Reduction Related to Subjective Sickness Measures in an HMD-based Data Analysis Task
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07992