To pre-process or not to pre-process? On the role of EEG enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation features
Virtual Reality (VR) has expanded beyond the entertainment field and has become a valuable tool across different verticals, including healthcare, education, and professional training, just to name a few. Despite these advancements, widespread usage of VR systems is still limited, mostly due to motio...
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| author | Olivier Rosanne Danielle Benesch Gregory Kratzig Simon Paré Nicole Bolt Tiago H. Falk |
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| description | Virtual Reality (VR) has expanded beyond the entertainment field and has become a valuable tool across different verticals, including healthcare, education, and professional training, just to name a few. Despite these advancements, widespread usage of VR systems is still limited, mostly due to motion sickness symptoms, such as dizziness, nausea, and headaches, which are collectively termed “cybersickness”. In this paper, we explore the use of electroencephalography (EEG) as a tool for real-time characterization of cybersickness. In particular, we aim to answer three research questions: (1) what neural patterns are indicative of cybersickness levels, (2) do EEG amplitude modulation features convey more important and explainable patterns, and (3) what role does EEG pre-processing play in overall cybersickness characterization. Experimental results show that minimal pre-processing retains artifacts that may be useful for cybersickness detection (e.g., head and eye movements), while more advanced methods enable the extraction of more interpretable neural patterns that may help the research community gain additional insights on the neural underpinnings of cybersickness. Our experiments show that the proposed amplitude modulation features comprise roughly 60% of the top-selected features for EEG-based cybersickness detection. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4ef2f73daef943d2954ad16bca55f98a2025-01-30T06:23:02ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Virtual Reality2673-41922025-01-01610.3389/frvir.2025.14689711468971To pre-process or not to pre-process? On the role of EEG enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation featuresOlivier Rosanne0Danielle Benesch1Gregory Kratzig2Simon Paré3Nicole Bolt4Tiago H. Falk5Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Québec, Montreal, QC, CanadaThales Research and Technology Canada, Québec City, QC, CanadaDepartment of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, SK, CanadaPublic Safety Canada, Ottawa, ON, CanadaDepartment of Psychology and Health Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, CanadaInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Québec, Montreal, QC, CanadaVirtual Reality (VR) has expanded beyond the entertainment field and has become a valuable tool across different verticals, including healthcare, education, and professional training, just to name a few. Despite these advancements, widespread usage of VR systems is still limited, mostly due to motion sickness symptoms, such as dizziness, nausea, and headaches, which are collectively termed “cybersickness”. In this paper, we explore the use of electroencephalography (EEG) as a tool for real-time characterization of cybersickness. In particular, we aim to answer three research questions: (1) what neural patterns are indicative of cybersickness levels, (2) do EEG amplitude modulation features convey more important and explainable patterns, and (3) what role does EEG pre-processing play in overall cybersickness characterization. Experimental results show that minimal pre-processing retains artifacts that may be useful for cybersickness detection (e.g., head and eye movements), while more advanced methods enable the extraction of more interpretable neural patterns that may help the research community gain additional insights on the neural underpinnings of cybersickness. Our experiments show that the proposed amplitude modulation features comprise roughly 60% of the top-selected features for EEG-based cybersickness detection.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2025.1468971/fullcybersicknessvirtual realityelectroencephalographyamplitude modulationartifact removal |
| spellingShingle | Olivier Rosanne Danielle Benesch Gregory Kratzig Simon Paré Nicole Bolt Tiago H. Falk To pre-process or not to pre-process? On the role of EEG enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation features Frontiers in Virtual Reality cybersickness virtual reality electroencephalography amplitude modulation artifact removal |
| title | To pre-process or not to pre-process? On the role of EEG enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation features |
| title_full | To pre-process or not to pre-process? On the role of EEG enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation features |
| title_fullStr | To pre-process or not to pre-process? On the role of EEG enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation features |
| title_full_unstemmed | To pre-process or not to pre-process? On the role of EEG enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation features |
| title_short | To pre-process or not to pre-process? On the role of EEG enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation features |
| title_sort | to pre process or not to pre process on the role of eeg enhancement for cybersickness characterization and the importance of amplitude modulation features |
| topic | cybersickness virtual reality electroencephalography amplitude modulation artifact removal |
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