Game audio — an investigation into the effect of audio on player immersion

Gallacher, Nicola

doi:10.1007/bf03392342

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“…The auditory characteristics of the digital world is an important influence on the level of sensory immersion experienced by a player. Previous research has demonstrated increased immersion during /5 gameplay with the addition of sound and music (Gallacher, 2013;Gormanley, 2013;Zhang, Jiulin & Fu, Xiaoquing, 2015). The introduction of music also increases emotional responses to events within a computer game (Abia & Caroux, 2019;Klimmt et al, 2019).…”

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Computer games as distraction from PAIN: Effects of hardware and difficulty on pain tolerance and subjective IMMERSION

Fairclough

Stamp

Dobbins

et al. 2020

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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Computer games as distraction from PAIN: Effects of hardware and difficulty on pain tolerance and subjective IMMERSION

Fairclough

Stamp

Dobbins

et al. 2020

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…By arousing specific emotions, music can affect human time perception indirectly [31]. However, most current researches focus on exploring the influence of music on players' concentration, immersion, and other factors [32]. Their experiment conclusions are generally based on analyzing participant heart rate [33] and EEG data [34], few consider the participant's sense of time.…”

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The Time Perception Control and Regulation in VR Environment

Liu¹,

Shi²,

He³

et al. 2021

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To adapt to different environments, human circadian rhythms will be constantly adjusted as the environment changes, which follows the principle of survival of the fittest. According to this principle, objective factors (such as circadian rhythms, and light intensity) can be utilized to control time perception. The subjective judgment on the estimation of elapsed time is called time perception. In the physical world, factors that can affect time perception, represented by illumination, are called the Zeitgebers. In recent years, with the development of Virtual Reality (VR) technology, effective control of zeitgebers has become possible, which is difficult to achieve in the physical world.

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“…However, providing haptic feedback for appropriate sound effects requires specialized audio engineering techniques to detect target sounds in real-time. Furthermore, numerous considerations, such as when to deliver feedback and eliminate distracting noise-like sounds, must be made [ 4 ]. The most straightforward approach for recognizing target game effects is to obtain the signal directly from the game engine.…”

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BattleSound: A Game Sound Benchmark for the Sound-Specific Feedback Generation in a Battle Game

Shin

Lee

Jun

et al. 2023

Sensors

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A haptic sensor coupled to a gamepad or headset is frequently used to enhance the sense of immersion for game players. However, providing haptic feedback for appropriate sound effects involves specialized audio engineering techniques to identify target sounds that vary according to the game. We propose a deep learning-based method for sound event detection (SED) to determine the optimal timing of haptic feedback in extremely noisy environments. To accomplish this, we introduce the BattleSound dataset, which contains a large volume of game sound recordings of game effects and other distracting sounds, including voice chats from a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) game. Given the highly noisy and distracting nature of war-game environments, we set the annotation interval to 0.5 s, which is significantly shorter than the existing benchmarks for SED, to increase the likelihood that the annotated label contains sound from a single source. As a baseline, we adopt mobile-sized deep learning models to perform two tasks: weapon sound event detection (WSED) and voice chat activity detection (VCAD). The accuracy of the models trained on BattleSound was greater than 90% for both tasks; thus, BattleSound enables real-time game sound recognition in noisy environments via deep learning. In addition, we demonstrated that performance degraded significantly when the annotation interval was greater than 0.5 s, indicating that the BattleSound with short annotation intervals is advantageous for SED applications that demand real-time inferences.

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Game audio — an investigation into the effect of audio on player immersion

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Computer games as distraction from PAIN: Effects of hardware and difficulty on pain tolerance and subjective IMMERSION

Computer games as distraction from PAIN: Effects of hardware and difficulty on pain tolerance and subjective IMMERSION

The Time Perception Control and Regulation in VR Environment

BattleSound: A Game Sound Benchmark for the Sound-Specific Feedback Generation in a Battle Game

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