“Motion control, motion sickness, and the postural dynamics of mobile devices” by Professor Thomas A. Stoffregen, director of the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), Yi-Chou Chen, and Frank Koslucher, was accepted for publication in Experimental Brain Research. Chen and Koslucher are both graduate students in the School of Kinesiology and work in APAL under Dr. Stoffregen’s supervision.

The study is the first, anywhere, to document under controlled experimental conditions that mobile devices (in this case, iPads) give rise to motion sickness. The research also showed that the risk of motion sickness is greatly reduced when the device is used in “tilt control” mode, that is, when users control the app by manually tilting the device, rather than controlling the app exclusively through the touchscreen interface.