TY - GEN
T1 - EEG effects of motion sickness induced in a dynamic virtual reality environment
AU - Lin, Chin Teng
AU - Chuang, Shang Wen
AU - Chen, Yu Chieh
AU - Ko, Li Wei
AU - Liang, Sheng Fu
AU - Jung, Tzyy Ping
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The Electroencephalogram (EEG) dynamics which relate to motion sickness are studied in this paper. Instead of providing visual or motion stimuli to the subjects to induce motion sickness, we employed a dynamic virtual-reality (VR) environment in our research. The environment consisted of a 3D surrounding VR scene and a motion platform providing a realistic situation. This environment provided the advantages of safety, low cost, and the realistic stimuli to induce motion sickness. The Motion Sickness Questionnaire (MSQ) was used to assess the sickness level, and the EEG effects on the subjects with high sickness levels were investigated using the independent component analysis (ICA). The fake-epoch extraction was then applied to the nausea-related independent components. Finally we employed the Event-Related Spectral Perturbation (ERSP) technology on the fake-epochs in order to determine the EEG dynamics during motion sickness. The experimental results show that most subjects experienced an 8-10 Hz power increase to their motion sickness-related phenomena in the parietal and motor areas. Moreover, some subjects experienced an EEG power increase of 18-20 Hz in their synchronized responses recorded in the same areas. The motion sickness-related effects and regions can be successfully obtained from our experimental results.
AB - The Electroencephalogram (EEG) dynamics which relate to motion sickness are studied in this paper. Instead of providing visual or motion stimuli to the subjects to induce motion sickness, we employed a dynamic virtual-reality (VR) environment in our research. The environment consisted of a 3D surrounding VR scene and a motion platform providing a realistic situation. This environment provided the advantages of safety, low cost, and the realistic stimuli to induce motion sickness. The Motion Sickness Questionnaire (MSQ) was used to assess the sickness level, and the EEG effects on the subjects with high sickness levels were investigated using the independent component analysis (ICA). The fake-epoch extraction was then applied to the nausea-related independent components. Finally we employed the Event-Related Spectral Perturbation (ERSP) technology on the fake-epochs in order to determine the EEG dynamics during motion sickness. The experimental results show that most subjects experienced an 8-10 Hz power increase to their motion sickness-related phenomena in the parietal and motor areas. Moreover, some subjects experienced an EEG power increase of 18-20 Hz in their synchronized responses recorded in the same areas. The motion sickness-related effects and regions can be successfully obtained from our experimental results.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353178
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353178
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 18002844
AN - SCOPUS:57649211652
SN - 1424407885
SN - 9781424407880
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
SP - 3872
EP - 3875
BT - 29th Annual International Conference of IEEE-EMBS, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'07
T2 - 29th Annual International Conference of IEEE-EMBS, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'07
Y2 - 23 August 2007 through 26 August 2007
ER -