Study on Simulator Sickness and Its Symptoms During Personnel Training in Slow-moving Virtual Reality Tools

In the Polish railway sector is a visible increasing dynamics of employee turnover. It is a challenge in the current management of railroad personnel. Due to that, new tools are introduced in the teaching process of the employees, also in the railway sector. Such tools are mainly virtual ones, and specifically the immersive virtual reality is interesting. A disadvantage of these tools is the possibility of simulator sickness (SS) occurrence. The paper shows a briefly introduction into this problem combined with a literature review and ended with questions relevant for the research. Then, the methodology of performed research is presented describing the developed virtual reality tool, the actions to be done in the tool, and questions asked to the participants about symptoms of the SS. Noteworthy is that the analysed tool is a slow moving one. The next paragraphs show results of the experiment as well as the conclusions. One of the interesting results was to find the part of people who can or cannot be trained by the VR tool. Interesting is, that for the used slow-motion tool the part of participants unable to finish the training is only about 4%.