How feelings of unpleasantness develop during the progression of motion sickness symptoms.

ABSTRACT: To mitigate motion sickness in self-driving cars and virtual reality, one should be able to quantify its progression unambiguously. Self-report rating scales either focus on general feelings of unpleasantness or specific symptomatology. Although one generally feels worse as symptoms progress, there is anecdotal evidence suggesting a non-monotonic relationship between unpleasantness and symptomatology. This implies that individuals could (temporarily) feel better as symptoms progress, which could trouble an unambiguous measurement of motion sickness progression. Here we explicitly investigated the temporal development of both unpleasantness and symptomatology using subjective reports, as well as their mutual dependence using psychophysical scaling techniques. We found symptoms to manifest i

SUBMITTER: Reuten AJC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8599357 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature