Print Email Facebook Twitter Cybersickness and anxiety in virtual environments Title Cybersickness and anxiety in virtual environments Author Ling, Y. Brinkman, W.P. Nefs, H.T. Qu, C. Heynderickx, I.E.J.R. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Mediamatics Date 2011-12-31 Abstract The question whether feelings of anxiety are confounded with cybersickness in studies on virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) was raised since the questionnaires used to measure them contain overlapping items. In the experiment, 88 participants were asked to talk in front of a virtual audience. Previous research has shown that this task may induce feelings of anxiety (Slater, Pertaub, & Steed, 1999). A significant correlation between levels of experienced anxiety and the nausea subscale of the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire was found for people who reported no cybersickness in a virtual neutral world. Therefore it must be concluded that when cybersickness is measured in VRET experiments, the results may partly be explained by feel-ings of anxiety rather than cybersickness per se. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1f5fff10-ce0d-4fef-9c74-896f169535e9 Publisher s.n. ISBN 978-951-38-7602-9 Source Joint Virtual Reality Conference, Sept. 20-21, Nottingham, 2011, 1-2 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2011 Ling, Y., Brinkman, W.P., Nefs, H.T., Qu, C., Heynderickx, I.E.J.R. Files PDF 279065.pdf 93.73 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1f5fff10-ce0d-4fef-9c74-896f169535e9/datastream/OBJ/view