Demand characteristics in assessing motion sickness in a virtual environment: Or does taking a motion sickness questionnaire make you sick?

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 422-428

  Young, Sean D ^a   Adelstein, Bernard D ^b   Ellis, Stephen R ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyber sickness; Demand characteristics; Manual control; Motion sickness; Placebo effect; Three dimensional tracking; User study; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

MANUAL CONTROL; MOTION ESTIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRACKING (POSITION);

CYBER SICKNESS; DEMAND CHARACTERISTICS; MOTION SICKNESS; PLACEBO EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACKING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION SICKNESS; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION SICKNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 85047696397     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.1029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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