This dataset was generated on 20140506 by Wei-Jhong Zend and Chih-Hui Chang 

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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1. Title of Dataset
   Effects of decades of physical driving on body movement and motion sickness during virtual driving

2. Author Information

Principal Investigator Contact Information
Name:Thomas A. Stoffregen
  Institution: School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota, USA
  Address: 224A Cooke Hall, 1900 University Ave. SE Minneapolis, 55455
  Email: tas@umn.edu

Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
Name: Chih-Hui Chang
  Institution: Department of Physical Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
  Address: No. 116 Heping 1st Rd., Lingya District, Kaohsiung City 80201, Taiwan. 
  Email: chihui@nknu.edu.tw

Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
Name: Fu-Chen Chen
  Institution: Department of Physical Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
  Address: No. 116 Heping 1st Rd., Lingya District, Kaohsiung City 80201, Taiwan. 
  Email: fcchen@mail.nknu.edu.tw

Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
Name: Wei-Jhong Zeng
  Institution: Department of Physical Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
  Address: No. 116 Heping 1st Rd., Lingya District, Kaohsiung City 80201, Taiwan. 
  Email: a1990790130@yahoo.com.tw

3. Date of data collection
   20140506-20140622

4. Geograhic location of data collection: 

   (1)Department of Physical Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
   (2)Qishan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.   

5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data

   Taiwan National Science Council, NSC: 101-2918-I-017-001.


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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data
   Open Data

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:
   
   http://journals.plos.org/plosone/

3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:
   None. 

4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets:
   None.
     
5. Was data derived from another source?
   No. 

6. Recommended citation for the data
   Stoffregen, T. A., Chang, C.-H., Chen, F.-C., & Zeng, W.-J. (Accepted). 
   Effects of decades of physical driving on body movement and motion sickness during virtual driving.
   Plos One.
 

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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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1. File List
   A. .txt files        
      There are 40 .txt files.  
        
   B. SSQ raw data                    
 

2. Relationship between files:        
   .txt files are original movement data files. 
   SSQ raw data is the raw data of Simultor Sickness Questionnaire. 


3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package
   Game perofrmance data.

4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? yes/no
   No.

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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
   Please refer to the following article,    
   Stoffregen, T. A., Chang, C.-H., Chen, F.-C., & Zeng, W.-J. (Accepted). 
   Effects of decades of physical driving on body movement and motion sickness during virtual driving.
   Plos One.

2. Methods for processing the data: 
   Please refer to the following article,    
   Stoffregen, T. A., Chang, C.-H., Chen, F.-C., & Zeng, W.-J. (Accepted). 
   Effects of decades of physical driving on body movement and motion sickness during virtual driving.
   Plos One.

3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
   SPSS.

4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate:
   None.

5. Environmental/experimental conditions:
   In-door and quiet lab. 

6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:
   Please refer to the method section of the following article,    
   Stoffregen, T. A., Chang, C.-H., Chen, F.-C., & Zeng, W.-J. (Accepted). 
   Effects of decades of physical driving on body movement and motion sickness during virtual driving.
   Plos One.

7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: 
   Thomas A. Stoffregen, Chih-Hui Chang, Fu-Chen Chen, and Wei-Jhong Zeng.


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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [.TXT FILES]
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1.Coding in File name
  XXXX-Y-ZN
  XXXX (MMDD) represents date of data collectionm 
  Y represents drivers or non-drivers(Y = drivers, N = non-drivers).
  Z represents gender (F= female, M = male).
  N represents participant's number.   

2.Variables and its correspondent axis
   2X= Head AP; 2Y = Head ML; 3X = Torso AP; 3Y = Torso ML
   
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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [.XLSX FILES]
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1.Variables list
  No.= Participant's group and number
     YY-ZN
     YY represents drivers or non-drivers(E = drivers, NE = non-drivers).
     Z represents gender (F= female, M = male).
     N represents participant's number.   
  Sick or Well 
     sick represents sick group. 
     well represents well group. 
  Pre presents pre-exposure SSQ scores.
  Post presents post-exposure SSQ scores.