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Virtual Reality Self Induced Cybersickness: An Exploratory Study

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Advances in Ergonomics in Design (AHFE 2017)

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Virtual reality (VR) has been used successfully in several studies, namely in the area of safety warnings design. However, regarding cybersickness, this technology it is not innocuous. We report results concerning cybersickness related with awareness of the secondary effects of VR before doing an experiment. Two groups of participant were found. A group that read the consent form (CF) with attention and a group that did not pay attention to the CF and just signed it. The consent contained information about the experiment and also an alert on the secondary effects of VR. In the VR experiment, participants were asked to accomplish a task in a virtual environment (VE) related with other study. Findings suggest that for those who read the consent form carefully, thus, were more aware about VR side effects, there were more symptoms of cybersickness and more withdraws. These reported results rise some practical and also ethical issues related with VR experiments that are discussed in this paper.

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This work was supported by grants BEX 0660-13/2 to Ana Almeida from CAPES Foundation Ministry of Education of Brazil.

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  1. CIAUD, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Sá Nogueira, Pólo Universitário, Alto da Ajuda, 1349-063, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Almeida, Francisco Rebelo, Paulo Noriega & Elisângela Vilar

  2. Ergonomics Laboratory, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Estrada da Costa, 1499-002, Cruz Quebrada, Portugal

    Ana Almeida, Francisco Rebelo, Paulo Noriega & Elisângela Vilar

  3. CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brasília, DF, 70040-020, Brazil

    Ana Almeida

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Almeida, A., Rebelo, F., Noriega, P., Vilar, E. (2018). Virtual Reality Self Induced Cybersickness: An Exploratory Study. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 588. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60582-1_3

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