Field-of-View Restriction to Reduce VR Sickness Does Not Impede Spatial Learning in Women
Field-of-View Restriction to Reduce VR Sickness Does Not Impede Spatial Learning in Women
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DOI：
10.1145/3448304
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发表时间：
2021-06-01
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1.6
通讯作者：
Folmer, Eelke
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作者：
Adhanom, Isayas Berhe;Al-Zayer, Majed;Folmer, Eelke
女性比男性更有可能经历虚拟现实（VR）疾病，这可能对VR的大众市场成功构成重大挑战。由于VR疾病通常由视觉前庭冲突引起，因此缓解冲突的有效策略是在运动期间限制用户的视野（FOV）。空间认知的性别差异已经得到了很好的研究，有几项研究报告说，男性在桌面三维环境中表现出比女性更好的空间导航性能。然而，其他研究表明，这种性别差异可以通过提供更大的FOV来缓解，因为这增加了地标的可用性，女性往往比男性更依赖地标。虽然FOV限制已经是VR头盔广泛使用的策略，以最大限度地减少VR疾病，但由于地标的可用性减少，目前还不清楚它是否会阻碍女性的空间学习。我们的研究（n = 28，14名男性和14名女性）发现，动态FOV限制器在减少VR病在两种性别中同样有效，并且没有发现VR病发病率的性别差异，我们的研究确实发现了空间学习能力的性别差异，但是FOV限制器并没有阻碍任何性别的空间学习。
Women are more likely to experience virtual reality (VR) sickness than men, which could pose a major challenge to the mass market success of VR. Because VR sickness often results from a visual-vestibular conflict, an effective strategy to mitigate conflict is to restrict the user's field-of-view (FOV) during locomotion. Sex differences in spatial cognition have been well researched, with several studies reporting that men exhibit better spatial navigation performance in desktop three-dimensional environments than women. However, additional research suggests that this sex difference can be mitigated by providing a larger FOV as this increases the availability of landmarks, which women tend to rely on more than men. Though FOV restriction is already a widely used strategy for VR headsets to minimize VR sickness, it is currently not well understood if it impedes spatial learning in women due to decreased availability of landmarks. Our study (n = 28, 14 men and 14 women) found that a dynamic FOV restrictor was equally effective in reducing VR sickness in both sexes, and no sex differences in VR sickness incidence were found. Our study did find a sex difference in spatial learning ability, but an FOV restrictor did not impede spatial learning in either sex.