User discomfort while using a virtual reality headset as a personal viewing system for text-intensive office tasks.
Ergonomics issues while using virtual reality (VR) headsets for text-intensive applications have not been studied. Measures of neck and shoulder discomfort and simulator sickness symptoms were quantified while participants were performing a document creation task for 60 min using a VR headset and a...
| Publicado en: | Ergonomics Vol. 64; no. 7; pp. 891 - 900 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2021
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