| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N37032/01 |
| Title: |
HABITATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Howarth, Dr P |
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| Department: |
Ergonomics (Human Sciences) |
| Organisation: |
Loughborough University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 December 2000 |
Ends: |
30 November 2002 |
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98,452
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human-Computer Interactions |
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| Creative Industries |
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The users of Virtual Reality systems often experience side-effects during and after immersion, particularly on their initial exposure. Real motion has long been known to produce feelings of discomfort and nausea in certain circumstances (e.g. sea-sickness), and a visual stimulus that evokes vection (the feeling of movement) can similarly lead to reports of nausea,The symptoms of both real motion sickness and vection-induced motion sickness are reduced, for most people, by repeated exposure. There is evidence that people also habituate to VR immersion, and this project aims to quantify these changes in order to provide designers and developers with basic human factors information about the effects of VR use.In addition, the project will investigate whether the side-effects of immersion can be beneficial. If habituation can be transferred, partly or fully, from virtual environment to a real one, then exposure to virtual environments can be used as a means of reducing, or preventing, motion sickness.
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http://www.lboro.ac.uk |