Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to report the gender differences in motion sickness susceptibility and reported sickness levels experienced during a study to determine how latency in a head-mounted display affects human performance. This experiment used a camera feeding an image of the room to an HMD to examine performance on a point and shoot task with added latency in a HMD. Twenty-nine participants completed a repeated measures study in which they performed a simple object location targeting task in base and varying latency conditions. Results showed a significant difference between genders in the pre-trial susceptibility rating using the MSSQ-S. Results also indicated that the participants’ sickness levels increased during their exposure to the HMD latency stimulus based on their SSQ scores. Further, when the sickness levels were examined, there were no differences found between male and female participants. As a result, gender should not be used as an exclusion factor in determining whether or not to use HMD and VR devices.