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We have proposed a system that superimposes auxiliary figures on a VR scene according to viewer’s physiological signals that are responses to the viewer’s VR sickness, in order to reduce VR sickness but not interfere with viewer's sense of immersion. We conducted an experiment to find a type of physiological signals that correlated strongly with VR sickness. The results showed that sweating on a viewer’s hand was strongly correlated, and that the amount of sweating tended to increase as the VR sickness worsened. Then, we designed and developed the proposed system that controlled degree of alpha blending of color of Dots as an auxiliary figure that reduces VR sickness according to amount of the sweating and conducted an experiment to evaluate it. The results showed that the effect of the system to reduce VR sickness was found to be effective for the participants with less VR experience although there was no statistically significant difference among the experimental conditions. Additionally, the results also showed that the controlled presentation of the system was less distracting on immersion of a VR scene than the constant presentation as a previous system.
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Omata, M., Suzuki, M. (2023). Auxiliary Figure Presentation Associated with Sweating on a Viewer’s Hand in Order to Reduce VR Sickness. In: Nakamatsu, K., Patnaik, S., Kountchev, R., Li, R., Aharari, A. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Virtual Reality Technologies. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 330. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7742-8_8
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