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Vestibular Science
How does multidimensional motion interact with vestibular processing and adaptation?
Scientific Collaboration
Help Us Answer the Questions the Literature Has Left Open
SeaKing Solace is developing a research program around a deceptively simple scientific problem:
Humans have been exposed to motion in therapeutic and experimental settings for decades, yet the physical stimulus itself is often incompletely characterized.
We are building the next layer of research. And we want thoughtful scientists, clinicians, engineers, and institutions involved in shaping it.
Why collaborate
A Research Question That Crosses Traditional Boundaries
The SeaKing research program sits at the intersection of several disciplines that are usually studied separately.
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Autonomic Physiology
How do heart rate, HRV, pupillary behavior, and other physiological measures change during natural motion exposure?
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Neuroplasticity
What repeated-exposure patterns produce adaptation, retention, or state-dependent changes?
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Dysautonomia & POTS
Can natural multidimensional motion produce measurable physiological responses in a population for which controlled motion-rich treatment evidence remains sparse?
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Autism
How should motion-rich intervention questions be tested rigorously in populations where adjacent intervention evidence already exists?
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Biomechanics & Motion Science
How should natural vessel motion be characterized quantitatively across six degrees of freedom?
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Data Science
How should synchronized motion, physiological, environmental, and participant-response data be modeled?
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Biostatistics & Trial Design
How should repeated measures, within-person response, heterogeneity, retention, and clinically meaningful effects be evaluated?
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Human Factors & Tolerability
How should motion intolerance, participant state, safety, and dose boundaries be measured prospectively?
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Marine & Mechanical Engineering
How can real-world motion be measured accurately and later reproduced under controlled conditions?
Why now
The Literature Has Brought Us to a Testable Question
SeaKing's scientific review program has examined:
- 01Vestibular stimulation and motion
- 02Vestibular-autonomic interactions
- 03Autonomic and vagal regulation
- 04Vestibular stimulation and neuroplasticity
- 05Motion-rich human interventions
The emerging question
What multidimensional physical motion is actually delivered to a person, what physiological response follows, and which response patterns persist?
This is no longer merely a theoretical question. It is an experimental design problem.
Scientific advisors
Help Shape the Research Before the Answers Exist
We are inviting qualified experts to participate early, when thoughtful criticism and methodological insight can have the greatest value.
Potential contribution areas
- Study design
- Endpoint selection
- Motion characterization
- Autonomic measurement
- Vestibular measurement
- Pupillometry
- Wearable physiology
- Signal processing
- Statistical analysis
- Clinically meaningful effect thresholds
- Tolerability and safety design
- ASD outcome selection
- POTS outcome selection
- Retention and follow-up methodology
- Simulator translation
- Publication strategy
- Replication planning
- Future grant development
Advisory involvement can vary in intensity. Not every advisor must become an investigator or institutional PI.
What collaborators receive
A Seat at the Beginning of the Scientific Conversation
- Early involvement in research design discussions
- Access to interdisciplinary collaborators
- Participation in protocol development
- Opportunities to identify testable subquestions
- Opportunities for future institutional collaboration
- Potential participation in manuscripts where standard authorship criteria are met
- Access to novel motion and physiology research questions
- Opportunity to help define measurement standards in an under-characterized research area
- Potential future grant and multi-institutional research opportunities
- Public recognition as a Scientific Research Advisor or collaborator when mutually appropriate
- Participation in scientific meetings, working groups, and research briefings
Authorship, investigator status, access to research data, and institutional roles depend on actual contribution, applicable research agreements, IRB requirements, data governance, and standard scientific authorship criteria.
Who we want to hear from
You Do Not Need to Work in ‘Motion Therapy’
Some of the most useful collaborators may come from disciplines that would not normally describe themselves as motion researchers.
Areas of expertise
- Vestibular neuroscience
- Autonomic medicine
- Dysautonomia and POTS
- Autism research
- Neurology
- Cardiology
- Rehabilitation science
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Neuroscience
- Neuroplasticity
- Biomedical engineering
- Biomechanics
- Marine engineering
- Human factors
- Signal processing
- Wearable physiology
- Pupillometry
- Statistics
- Clinical trial methodology
- Machine learning and multimodal data
- Outcomes research
Scientific advisory role
Become a SeaKing Scientific Research Advisor
Scientific Research Advisors help challenge assumptions, identify methodological weaknesses, refine questions, and ensure the program develops with the rigor required for meaningful human research.
We are interested in advisors who will disagree when disagreement improves the science.
The role is not ceremonial. We want people willing to ask difficult questions before participants are enrolled and before conclusions are drawn.
This invitation does not describe employment and does not promise compensation. Any formal role would be defined through an appropriate agreement.
Potential activities
- Periodic research calls
- Review of study concepts
- Methodological feedback
- Endpoint discussions
- Review of scientific materials
- Introductions to potential institutional collaborators
- Participation in specialized working groups
Institutional collaboration
For Universities, Hospitals, Labs, and Research Centers
SeaKing is interested in institutional relationships that could support future research development and translation.
- Principal investigator involvement
- Multi-site research
- Protocol development
- Participant recruitment
- Specialized measurement
- Statistical collaboration
- Simulator research
- Clinical translation
- Replication
- Grant applications
- Subsequent efficacy studies
Scientific independence
The Goal Is Not to Prove SeaKing Right
The purpose of scientific collaboration is to determine what the evidence actually shows. Positive, null, conditional, and adverse findings are all scientifically valuable.
SeaKing collaborators should be free to challenge the hypothesis, question the design, identify confounders, and recommend better methods.
That independence is a feature of the program, not a problem to overcome.
Begin a conversation
Bring Your Expertise Into the Room
If this research intersects with your work, we would like to hear from you. You do not need to arrive with a proposal. A conversation is enough to begin.