Eugenia Garza, a first-year undergraduate student and kinesiology major, has been awarded a University Research Scholarship (URS) for her project, “Head tilt and cybersickness in head-mounted displays.” Work that investigates whether head tilt is a precursor for cybersickness is largely under-researched. Across three experiments, this project intends to examine the effect of head tilt on cybersickness incidents by analyzing various conditions in a driving simulator.

The research will be conducted in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL), with the help of APAL doctoral students George Bailey and Danilo Arruda. Garza’s URS supervisor is Thomas Stoffregen, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the APAL. Garza’s project is part of the broader research effort supported by Stoffregen’s current National Science Foundation (NSF) award, “CHS: Medium: Prediction, Early Detection, and Mitigation of Virtual Reality Simulator Sickness.”