«Guidelines for Mitigating Cybersickness in Virtual Reality Systems»
(2019-2021)

In November 2019, the NATO Scientific and Technical Organization Research Team HFM-MSG-323 has been established to implement the project “Guidelines for Mitigating Cybersickness in Virtual Reality Systems” (2019-2021). Oleksandr Burov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher, was invited to join the project. The project partners were 15 leading experts representing the following countries: Great Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the USA, Ukraine, Cyprus, Singapore. The project coordinator is a leading NATO specialist in this field from Italy.

Project goal: To collect all the best practice and design techniques and measures that may reduce the occurrence of cybersickness. A thorough understanding of the problem allows for general awareness of potential adverse effects, as well as possible measures that can be taken to avoid or minimise them.

The scientific activities of the project was aimed to:

• Making reference to the literature on the topic.
• Explaining the different findings related to cybersickness and the technology which elicits cybersickness.
• Addressing cybersickness in terms of symptoms and how they can be measured.
• Giving an overview of all the individual, technological, and operational factors known to affect cybersickness.
• Providing an overview of scientifically proven countermeasures (and some noted as conjectural), from design, behavioural and neurophysiological points of view.

The goal and areas of activity correspond to the official project description.