Mitigating Motion Sickness in Ground Vehicles

Abstract

Motion sickness (MS) represents a challenge to many warfighters, particularly those in command and control vehicles (C2V). Research by the U.S. Army and NASA suggests that as many as 90% of operators in a C2V experience some performance decrements and MS symptoms. Common solutions to MS emphasize pharmacological interventions, such as promethazine and dimenhydrinate (Dramamine trade mark). The challenge with these approaches is that they often lead to decrements in cognitive performance and drowsiness. The sensory conflict theory suggests that MS arises in conditions where the sensory systems, specifically the visual and vestibular systems, detect different motions. This paper provides evidence for an information technology solution to MS, called Motion Coupled Visual Environment (MOCOVE),2 which attempts to resolve MS by artificially introducing couplings between visual and vestibular motion cues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA517884

Entities

People

  • D. Hunter
  • E. Rovira
  • G. Carter
  • G. Zwick
  • J. T. Coyne
  • J. V. Cohn
  • K. Brendley
  • R. Stripling

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Environment
  • Extreme Environments
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Military Research
  • Motion Sickness
  • Motor Skills
  • Ship Motion
  • Test Vehicles
  • Training
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Medical Imaging.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control