Lessons learned : gastric motility assessment during driving simulation

Popović, Nenad B. (author), Miljković, Nadica (author), Stojmenova Pečečnik, Kristina (author), Jakus, Grega (author), Prodanov, Milana (author), Sodnik, Jaka (author)

In the era of technological advances and innovations in transportation technologies, application of driving simulators for the investigation and assessment of the driving process provides a safe and suitable testing environment. Although driving simulators are crucial for further improvements in transportation, it is important to resolve one of their main disadvantages–simulator sickness. Therefore, suitable methods for the assessment of simulator sickness are required. The main aim of this paper was to present a non-invasive method for assessing simulator sickness by recording gastric myoelectrical activity–electrogastrography. Open-source hardware for electrogastrography together with recordings obtained in 13 healthy volunteers is presented, and the main aspects of signal processing for artifact cancellation and feature extraction were discussed. Based on the obtained results, it was concluded that slow-wave electrical gastric activity can be recorded during driving simulation by following adequate recommendations and that proposed features could be beneficial in describing non-ordinary electrogastrography signals.

• Language: English
• Keywords: electrogastrography, driving simulation, simulator sickness, open-source hardware
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 19, iss. 14, art. 3175
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-132854
• UDC: 004:629.4.072
• ISSN on article: 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s19143175
• COBISS.SI-ID: 12582740
• Publication date in RUL: 05.11.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sensors
• Shortened title: Sensors
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1424-8220
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10176278

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 19.07.2019

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: elektrogastrografija, simulacija vožnje, simulacijska slabost, odprtokodna strojna oprema