Investigation of factors influencing simulator sickness and the sense of presence in flight simulator

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Simulator may cause unintended motion sickness because of the discrepancy between visual and motor cue. This study investigated the effect of visual display type and task complexity on the sense of presence and the simulator sickness during flight simulator training. Human subject experiment with 18 participants (average age 22.6) showed that the head-mount display provides high level of sense of presence on sensory and realism factor, but it also generates higher simulator sickness on nausea, oculomotor, disorientation, and motion sickness. The effect of task complexity is not significant on both simulator sickness and sense of presence. The result implies that wide visual angle and binocular depth perception are positively influencing the sense of presence while also increasing simulator sickness. Thus the importance of providing proper motion cue would become more important as the visual reality increases. © 2020, ICIC International. All rights reserved.

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