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A Pilot Study on Electroencephalogram-based Evaluation of Visually Induced Motion Sickness
  DOI :  10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2020.64.2.020501  Published OnlineMarch 2020
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The most prominent problem in virtual reality (VR) technology is that users may experience motion-sickness-like symptoms when they immerse into a VR environment. These symptoms are recognized as visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) or virtual reality motion sickness. The objectives of this study were to investigate the association between the electroencephalogram (EEG) and subjectively rated VIMS level (VIMSL) and find EEG markers for VIMS evaluation. A VR-based vehicle-driving simulator was used to induce VIMS symptoms, and a wearable EEG device with four electrodes (the Muse) was used to collect EEG data. The results suggest that individual tolerance, susceptibility, and recoverability to VIMS varied largely among subjects; the following markers were shown to be significantly different from no-VIMS and VIMS states (P < 0.05): (1) means of gravity frequency (GF) for theta@FP1, alpha@TP9, alpha@FP2, alpha@TP10, and beta@FP1; (2) standard deviation of GF for alpha@TP9, alpha@FP1, alpha@FP2, alpha@TP10, and alpha@(FP2–FP1); (3) standard deviation of power spectral entropy for FP1; (4) means of Kolmogorov complexity (KC) for TP9, FP1, and FP2. These results also demonstrate that it is feasible to perform VIMS evaluation using an EEG device with a few electrodes.

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Ran Liu, Miao Xu, Yanzhen Zhang, Eli Peli, Alex D. Hwang, "A Pilot Study on Electroencephalogram-based Evaluation of Visually Induced Motion Sicknessin Journal of Imaging Science and Technology,  2020,  pp 020501-1 - 020501-10,  https://doi.org/10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2020.64.2.020501

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  • received March 2019
  • accepted November 2019
  • PublishedMarch 2020

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