The Correlation Analysis Between Cybersickness and Postural Behavior in Immersive VR Experience
Ying Zhong, Ke-Ao Zhao, Leping Zhang, Fangming Zhao, Wentao Wei, Feilin Han · 2024
Cybersickness detection is one of the primary tasks in Virtual Reality (VR) content production. The existing subjective and objective studies on cybersickness give few guiding implications to VR content creators. To do experimental verification on previous hypotheses and propose design guidelines, this paper investigates the relationship between cybersickness and postural behavior, by analyzing the surface electromyography (sEMG) signals and hand movement videos. We conducted a user study to build the sEMG-video Cybersickness Benchmark Dataset (sEMG-CBD) and employed statistical analysis to summarize the regular pattern of participants’ dizziness status under VR experiences. The results indicate that the fluctuations of cybersickness correlate positively with the extent of forearm sEMG signals and hand movements. The preliminary analysis implies the potentiality of sEMG-based cybersickness detection being used as one of the significant representations of VR viewing experience, which could contribute to VR content production.