Motion Sickness Prevention System (MSPS)

Travel sickness, which is a special kind of motion sickness or kinetosis, is unpleasant for many people while traveling. It is often caused by a mismatch between the perceived movement of the eyes and the movement sensed by the vestibular system. In a car, this condition is often caused by reading or staring at a mobile phone for a longer period of time. Looking outside the window at the trajectory of the vehicle helps most of those affected by kinetosis. But what if you want to read a book while traveling? In this paper, we present the Motion Sickness Prevention System (MSPS) --an approach that allows reading while driving easing the symptoms of kinetosis. It simply uses the live video stream of the road ahead as a background for reading. A preliminary study (N=12) shows that the MSPS, while not able to eliminate the symptoms of kinetosis, can still significantly decrease it.