Development of Evaluation Indicators for Visually Induced Motion Sickness by Staring at Drone Videos Displayed on LCD

ABSTRACT

Remote control and tele‐operation are employed across a wide range of applications. However, one challenge with these technologies is the lack of an established method for evaluating the workload they impose. Visually Induced Motion Sickness (VIMS) is an issue that can occur during remote control and tele‐operation. Although both objective physiological indicators and subjective assessments are used to evaluate VIMS, each approach requires improvement. One issue that needs to be addressed in terms of objective evaluation criteria for VIMS is the burden associated with measurement. The use of gaze data is being considered as an objective evaluation index for VIMS with low burden. This study aims to develop evaluation indicators for VIMS by remote control and tele‐operation. The result, the effectiveness of quantitative indicators such as total locus length, area of gaze and sparse density calculated from gaze data was demonstrated in the evaluation of VIMS associated with remote control and tele‐operation. It was suggested that gaze data while staring videos could be used as an evaluation indicator. Future works include the development of evaluation indicators for video staring, the need to examine the relationship between VIMS and extraocular muscles, as well as exploring new analytical methods.