Previous studies have shown that uncoupled motion can affect a person's performance on a task as well as induce motion sickness. This study seeks to determine whether human exposure to vehicle motion specifically affects performance on a similar, yet uncorrelated, driving task and to observe the motion/simulator sickness symptoms that were associated with the real vehicle motion and the driving task. Ten participants completed an uncorrelated driving task while seated in a stationary real vehicle and a moving real vehicle. The results show participants took longer to complete the motion condition and were less accurate. Scores for the Motion Sickness Assessment Questionnaire and the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire were significantly higher during the motion condition. These findings indicate that performance on the task was degraded and motion sickness heightened during the motion condition. The findings from this study have implications for drivers interacting with a moving map navigation system while driving.
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