Effectiveness of Acupressure and Acustimulation in Minimizing Driving Simulation Adaptation Syndrome
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We investigated the efficacy of acupressure and acustimulation in alleviating symptoms of Simulation Adaptation Syndrome (SAS). Twenty-five drivers (mean age = 35.6) reporting a history of driving-related sickness, motion sickness, and/or seasickness were recruited for a within subject, repeated-measures crossover study. Of all participants, 16 reported SAS during a placebo condition. These 16 participants drove the Atari research simulator for 15 minutes on 3 separate days (same time each day), wearing: (a) a placebo device, (b) acupressure beads, and (c) an acu-stimulation device. Every 3 minutes during each drive, participants rated their physical discomfort. Overall, the analysis of variance condition effect was significant (p < 0.05). Participants in the acustimulation condition reported significantly less physical discomfort (p < 0.005) compared with the placebo. There were no significant differences between the acupressure and placebo conditions or the acupressure and acustimulation conditions. These data suggest that acustimulation can help to significantly reduce or prevent SAS-related nausea and physical discomfort.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".