I-Corps: Motion Sickness Mitigation in Vehicles

I-Corps：减轻车辆晕动症

• 批准号: 2306606
• 负责人: Bernard Martin
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-02-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306606&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Motion; Sickness; Mitigation; Vehicles

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of a motion sickness mitigation technology for passengers in moving vehicles. Any passenger in a moving vehicle is subject to inertial forces associated with accelerations (e.g., speeding up, braking, turning, etc.). These inertial forces cause the passenger’s head and body to sway, which along with visual inputs, may lead to motion sickness and discomfort. One in three adults in the US is prone to motion sickness in moving vehicles. The goal of this project is to validate the need and commercial potential of a new motion sickness mitigation technology for the automotive and trucking industries that makes use of predictive algorithms to anticipate impending actions of a moving vehicle and their impact on the passenger.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a novel technology that makes use of predictive algorithms that employ real-time and historical data to predict the actions of moving vehicles, specifically those actions that lead to passenger discomfort and motion sickness. These predictions may be used to provide preemptive cues to the passenger via auditory, visual, and/or haptic stimuli to make them aware of the impending motion events. The goal of this research is to determine which combination of these cues and what time horizon of preemption is ideally suited to provide the passenger sufficient forewarning that can lower motion sickness. Preliminary results have shown the efficacy of such preemptive cues under specific conditions. This project may enable the development and testing of key hypotheses related to commercialization of this motion sickness mitigation technology in the automotive and trucking industries.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为移动车辆中的乘客开发减轻晕动病的技术。移动车辆中的任何乘客都受到与加速度相关联的惯性力（例如，加速、制动、转弯等）。这些惯性力导致乘客的头部和身体摇摆，这沿着视觉输入可能导致晕动病和不适。在美国，每三个成年人中就有一个在行驶的车辆中容易晕车。该项目的目标是验证汽车和卡车运输行业新的运动病缓解技术的需求和商业潜力，该技术利用预测算法来预测移动车辆的即将发生的动作及其对乘客的影响。该I-Corps项目基于开发一种新技术，该技术利用预测算法，该预测算法采用真实的-时间和历史数据来预测移动车辆的动作，特别是那些导致乘客不适和晕动病的动作。这些预测可以用于经由听觉、视觉和/或触觉刺激向乘客提供抢先提示，以使他们意识到即将发生的运动事件。本研究的目的是确定这些线索的组合和什么样的时间范围的抢占是理想的适合提供乘客足够的预警，可以降低晕动病。初步的结果显示了在特定条件下这种先发制人的暗示的有效性。该项目可能使开发和测试的关键假设有关的商业化运动病缓解技术在汽车和卡车industry.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。