AUTHOR=Curry Christopher , Peterson Nicolette , Li Ruixuan , Stoffregen Thomas A. TITLE=Postural Activity During Use of a Head-Mounted Display: Sex Differences in the “Driver–Passenger” Effect JOURNAL=Frontiers in Virtual Reality VOLUME=1 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/virtual-reality/articles/10.3389/frvir.2020.581132 DOI=10.3389/frvir.2020.581132 ISSN=2673-4192 ABSTRACT=
Motion sickness is common in virtual environments. The risk of motion sickness varies widely between individuals and across situations. The subjective experience of motion sickness often is preceded by distinctive patterns of movement in the control of head and body posture. Previous research has documented reliable sex differences in the kinematics of postural activity, as well as reliable differences in postural activity between participants who were in control of a virtual vehicle and participants who were not. We asked whether postural precursors of motion sickness would simultaneously be influenced by individual and situational factors. We analyzed movement of the head and torso while seated participants were exposed to a driving video game presented through a head-mounted display. Half of the participants were women, and half were men. Using a yoked-control design, half of the participants controlled the virtual vehicle (