title: Heart rate variability and motion sickness during forklift simulator driving.
abstract: The goal of the study was to determine the effect of a 1-h hour long forklift truck virtual simulator driving on the mechanism of autonomic heart rate (HR) regulation in operators. The participants were divided into 2 subgroups: subjects with no definite inclination to motion sickness (group A) and subjects with a definite inclination to motion sickness (group B). Holter monitoring of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal was carried out in all subjects during the virtual simulator driving. For 12 consecutive epochs of ECG signal, HR variability analysis was conducted in time and frequency domains. In subjects with a definite inclination to motion sickness after ~30 min of the driving, changes in parameter values were found indicating an increase in sympathetic and parasympathetic activity with parasympathetic dominance.
authors.affiliation: Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute (CIOP-PIB), Poland. krzuz@ciop.pl
authors.forename: Krystyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zużewicz
authors.forename: Antoni
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saulewicz
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Konarska
authors.forename: Zbigniew
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kaczorowski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009041:Motion Sickness / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D018986:Motor Vehicles; D010275:Parasympathetic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D055815:Young Adult