Rule-based Adaptations to Control Cybersickness in Social Virtual Reality Learning Environments
This addresses cybersickness for users in critical VRLE domains like military training and manufacturing, but it is incremental as it builds on existing adaptation methods.
The paper tackles cybersickness in social virtual reality learning environments (VRLEs) by proposing a rule-based 3QS-adaptation framework that monitors performance and security anomalies to trigger adaptations, resulting in reduced cybersickness levels while maintaining application functionality.
Social virtual reality learning environments (VRLEs) provide immersive experience to users with increased accessibility to remote learning. Lack of maintaining high-performance and secured data delivery in critical VRLE application domains (e.g., military training, manufacturing) can disrupt application functionality and induce cybersickness. In this paper, we present a novel rule-based 3QS-adaptation framework that performs risk and cost aware trade-off analysis to control cybersickness due to performance/security anomaly events during a VRLE session. Our framework implementation in a social VRLE viz., vSocial monitors performance/security anomaly events in network/session data. In the event of an anomaly, the framework features rule-based adaptations that are triggered by using various decision metrics. Based on our experimental results, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our rule-based 3QS-adaptation framework in reducing cybersickness levels, while maintaining application functionality. Using our key findings, we enlist suitable practices for addressing performance and security issues towards a more high-performing and robust social VRLE.