Reduction of Car Sickness Caused by Watching Onboard Display for Rear-Seat Entertainment

Onboard displays are becoming popular as rear-seat entertainment in vehicles. However, watching video displays frequently causes car sickness in the same way as reading books in a moving vehicle. We propose two approaches to reduce car sickness while watching an onboard display. An experimental study showed that car sickness was markedly reduced by applying our proposed approaches.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Morimoto, Akihiro
  • Isu, Naoki
  • Okumura, Tomohiro
  • Araki, Yusuke
  • Kawai, Atsuo
  • Masui, Fumito
• Conference:
  • 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America's 2008 Annual Meeting
  • Location: New York NY, United States
  • Date: 2008-11-16 to 2008-11-20
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 8p
• Monograph Title: ITS Connections: Saving Time. Saving Lives

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Etiology; Motion sickness; Occupant kinetics; Passengers; Rear seat occupants; Video display terminals
• Uncontrolled Terms: Entertainment
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01146680
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 22 2009 9:00AM