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Main Authors: Metzulat, Myriam, Metz, Barbara, Edelmann, Aaron, Neukum, Alexandra, Kunde, Wilfried
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04210
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author Metzulat, Myriam
Metz, Barbara
Edelmann, Aaron
Neukum, Alexandra
Kunde, Wilfried
author_facet Metzulat, Myriam
Metz, Barbara
Edelmann, Aaron
Neukum, Alexandra
Kunde, Wilfried
contents As in automated driving the driver becomes a passenger, carsickness might reduce comfort for susceptible individuals. Insights in the prevalence of carsickness and its modulating factors are considered useful for the development of automated vehicles to mitigate or prevent its occurrence. An online survey was conducted with N = 3999 participants in Spain, Sweden, Poland, and Germany. 30% of participants reported to have already experienced carsickness as adult. The frequency of carsickness was modulated not only by demographic factors (country, gender, age), but also by frequency of being a passenger, type of non-driving related task, road type, and the seating position in car. Furthermore, the efficiency of applied countermeasures, temporal aspects of carsickness development, as well as the relation of carsickness with the acceptability of automated driving and the effect on subjective fitness to drive was investigated. The results are discussed with focus on automated driving.
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spellingShingle Sick of being driven? -- Prevalence and modulating factors of carsickness in the European population in context of automated driving
Metzulat, Myriam
Metz, Barbara
Edelmann, Aaron
Neukum, Alexandra
Kunde, Wilfried
Human-Computer Interaction
As in automated driving the driver becomes a passenger, carsickness might reduce comfort for susceptible individuals. Insights in the prevalence of carsickness and its modulating factors are considered useful for the development of automated vehicles to mitigate or prevent its occurrence. An online survey was conducted with N = 3999 participants in Spain, Sweden, Poland, and Germany. 30% of participants reported to have already experienced carsickness as adult. The frequency of carsickness was modulated not only by demographic factors (country, gender, age), but also by frequency of being a passenger, type of non-driving related task, road type, and the seating position in car. Furthermore, the efficiency of applied countermeasures, temporal aspects of carsickness development, as well as the relation of carsickness with the acceptability of automated driving and the effect on subjective fitness to drive was investigated. The results are discussed with focus on automated driving.
title Sick of being driven? -- Prevalence and modulating factors of carsickness in the European population in context of automated driving
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04210