The Effects of False but Stable Heart Rate Feedback on Cybersickness and User Experience in Virtual Reality

Dongyun Joo; Hanseob Kim; Gerard Jounghyun Kim

doi:10.1145/3613904.3642072

The Effects of False but Stable Heart Rate Feedback on Cybersickness and User Experience in Virtual Reality

Dongyun Joo
, Hanseob Kim^*
, Gerard Jounghyun Kim

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Virtual reality (VR) offers a compelling and immersive experience; however, cybersickness (or VR sickness) stands as a significant obstacle to its widespread adoption. When a user experiences cybersickness, one's physical condition deteriorates with various symptoms, often accompanied by an increased and destabilized heart rate and even altered perception of one's state. In this paper, we propose to provide “False but Stable Heart rate (FSH)” feedback through auditory and vibrotactile stimulation to reversely induce a stably perceived heart rate and, thereby, alleviate cybersickness while navigating a sickness-inducing VR content. The validation of the human experiment confirmed the intended effect in a statistically significant way. Furthermore, it was found that the lesser compatible FSH feedback had a more substantial sickness reduction effect but distracted the user with the reduced immersive experience. The compatible FSH feedback still showed moderate sickness reduction with the maintained sense of presence and immersion.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400703300
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642072
Publication status	Published - 2024 May 11
Event	2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024 - Hybrid, Honolulu, United States Duration: 2024 May 11 → 2024 May 16

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024
Country/Territory	United States
City	Hybrid, Honolulu
Period	24/5/11 → 24/5/16

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Keywords

Cognitive Distraction
Cybersickness
False Heart Rate

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Joo, D., Kim, H., & Kim, G. J. (2024). The Effects of False but Stable Heart Rate Feedback on Cybersickness and User Experience in Virtual Reality. In CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems Article 795 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642072

The Effects of False but Stable Heart Rate Feedback on Cybersickness and User Experience in Virtual Reality. / Joo, Dongyun; Kim, Hanseob; Kim, Gerard Jounghyun.
CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. 795 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Joo, D, Kim, H & Kim, GJ 2024, The Effects of False but Stable Heart Rate Feedback on Cybersickness and User Experience in Virtual Reality. in CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems., 795, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024, Hybrid, Honolulu, United States, 24/5/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642072

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