Stomach ache, vomiting, dizziness: do you scroll (scroll) your phone screen and feel bad? Imagine that this has a name. An article from Psychology Today, signed by the American researcher Cynthia M. Bulik explains this modern phenomenon of virtual nausea.
“Cybersickness is real” is titled the study published by the specialist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She recounts having been a victim herself during a conference in 2010. A colleague demonstrates her new iPad to her, after which she hurries out to avoid vomiting.
Sensory imbalance
His feelings at that time particularly question him: it looks strangely like the nausea she has on a plane, in a car that she would not drive, in a train that would change direction … By scrolling her screen herself, she has never experienced it. Likewise, when she drives her car, she is not sick.
This virtual nausea is more familiar to gamers. Virtual reality can quickly make your heart ache, in full immersion. The principle is the same with the smartphone: it is the contrast in mobility between your body and your eyes that creates an imbalance. When you scroll, you see images scrolling, you read text, a video comes to life: your visual stimulation is very intense. But your body is still, recaps the Huffington Post which takes the results of a study published in Science Daily in 2018.
To counter it, there is no need to increase your physical activity to align it with your visual activity … Instead, think about reducing your screen time, scrolling less quickly, taking breaks.
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