Gender differences in cybersickness: Clarifying confusion and identifying paths forward

Kelly, Jonathan; Gilbert, Stephen; Dorneich, Michael; Costabile, Kristi A.

Gender differences in cybersickness: Clarifying confusion and identifying paths forward

File

2023-GilbertStephen-GenderDifferences.pdf (602.88 KB)

Date

2023-01-25

Authors

Kelly, Jonathan

Gilbert, Stephen

Dorneich, Michael

Costabile, Kristi A.

Publisher

PsyArXiv

Abstract

Cybersickness is a barrier to widespread adoption of virtual reality (VR). We summarize the literature and conclude that women experience more cybersickness than do men, but that the size of the gender effect is modest. We present a mediation and moderation framework for organizing existing research and proposing new questions about gender and cybersickness. A mediator causally connects gender and cybersickness, and a moderator changes the magnitude of the gender difference in cybersickness.

Academic or Administrative Unit

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Psychology

Virtual Reality Applications Center

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Type

Preprint

Comments

This is a pre-print of the article Kelly, Jonathan, Stephen B. Gilbert, Michael Dorneich, and Kristi Costabile. 2023. “Gender Differences in Cybersickness: Clarifying Confusion and Identifying Paths Forward.” PsyArXiv. DOI:10.31234/osf.io/qrkdx. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Copyright 2023 The Authors. Posted with permission.