Augmented Reality is on the rise with consumer-grade smart glasses becoming available in recent years. Those interested in deploying these head-mounted displays need to understand better the effect technology has on the end user. One key aspect potentially hindering the use is motion sickness, a known problem inherited from virtual reality, which so far remains under-explored. In this paper we address this problem by conducting an experiment with 142 subjects in three different industries: aviation, medical, and space. We evaluate whether the Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality head-mounted display, causes simulator sickness and how different symptom groups contribute to it (nausea, oculomotor and disorientation). Our findings suggest that the Microsoft HoloLens causes across all participants only negligible symptoms of simulator sickness. Most consumers who use it will face no symptoms while only few experience minimal discomfort in the training environments we tested it in.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Vovk:2018:SSA:3173574.3173783
%A Vovk, Alla
%A Wild, Fridolin
%A Guest, Will
%A Kuula, Timo
%B Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2018
%I ACM
%K ar interaction motion_sickness
%P 209:1--209:9
%R 10.1145/3173574.3173783
%T Simulator Sickness in Augmented Reality Training Using the Microsoft HoloLens
%U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3173574.3173783
%X Augmented Reality is on the rise with consumer-grade smart glasses becoming available in recent years. Those interested in deploying these head-mounted displays need to understand better the effect technology has on the end user. One key aspect potentially hindering the use is motion sickness, a known problem inherited from virtual reality, which so far remains under-explored. In this paper we address this problem by conducting an experiment with 142 subjects in three different industries: aviation, medical, and space. We evaluate whether the Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality head-mounted display, causes simulator sickness and how different symptom groups contribute to it (nausea, oculomotor and disorientation). Our findings suggest that the Microsoft HoloLens causes across all participants only negligible symptoms of simulator sickness. Most consumers who use it will face no symptoms while only few experience minimal discomfort in the training environments we tested it in.
%@ 978-1-4503-5620-6
@inproceedings{Vovk:2018:SSA:3173574.3173783,
abstract = {Augmented Reality is on the rise with consumer-grade smart glasses becoming available in recent years. Those interested in deploying these head-mounted displays need to understand better the effect technology has on the end user. One key aspect potentially hindering the use is motion sickness, a known problem inherited from virtual reality, which so far remains under-explored. In this paper we address this problem by conducting an experiment with 142 subjects in three different industries: aviation, medical, and space. We evaluate whether the Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality head-mounted display, causes simulator sickness and how different symptom groups contribute to it (nausea, oculomotor and disorientation). Our findings suggest that the Microsoft HoloLens causes across all participants only negligible symptoms of simulator sickness. Most consumers who use it will face no symptoms while only few experience minimal discomfort in the training environments we tested it in.},
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author = {Vovk, Alla and Wild, Fridolin and Guest, Will and Kuula, Timo},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
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location = {Montreal QC, Canada},
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pages = {209:1--209:9},
publisher = {ACM},
series = {CHI '18},
timestamp = {2018-05-01T00:46:05.000+0200},
title = {Simulator Sickness in Augmented Reality Training Using the Microsoft HoloLens},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3173574.3173783},
year = 2018
}