Citation

Gálvez-García G, Aldunate N, Bascour-Sandoval C, Barramuño M, Fonseca F, Gómez-Milán E. Appl. Ergon. 2019; 82: e102931.

Affiliation

Mind, Brain And Behavior Research Center, University of Granada, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.apergo.2019.102931

PMID

31445459

Abstract

We investigated the effectiveness of galvanic cutaneous stimulation (GCS) and auditory stimulation (AS) together and separately in mitigating motion sickness (MS). Forty-eight drivers (twenty-two men; mean age = 21.58 years) participated in a driving simulation experiment. We compared the total scores of the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ) across four different stimulation conditions (GCS, AS, Mixed GCS-AS and no stimulation as a baseline condition). We provided evidence that mixing techniques mitigates MS owing to an improvement in body balance; furthermore, mixing techniques improves driving behavior more effectively than GCS and AS in isolation. We encourage the use of the two techniques together to decrease MS.

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Language: en

Keywords

Galvanic cutaneous stimulation; Mixing techniques; Motion sickness