Music as a Trigger for Peak Experiences Among a College Staff Population

Lowis, Michael J.

doi:10.1207/s15326934crj1434_6

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“…Hay [15] conducted three surveys in England during the 1970s and found that 36-65% of his respondents had had these kind of experiences. Similar results have been found in other studies [16,17].…”

Section: B Transcendent Experiencesupporting

confidence: 93%

Modeling positive experiences in human-computer interaction

Saari

2009

2009 2nd Conference on Human System Interactions

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Transcendence, peak experience, peak performance and flow are some of the most fundamental positive human experiences. This article explores how these experiences could be understood in humancomputer interaction. A mediating concept used in the article is presence, the perceptual illusion of nonmediation in media and human-computer interaction. Positive human experiences are related to presence and implications to modeling positive experiences in humancomputer interaction are discussed.

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Section: B Transcendent Experiencesupporting

confidence: 93%

Modeling positive experiences in human-computer interaction

Saari

2009

2009 2nd Conference on Human System Interactions

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“…This idea is supported by the work of Kreutz and colleagues [9] who collected trait absorption data and emotion ratings induced by 25 excerpts of music. Participants high in trait absorption had more intense emotional reactions in response to the music than those with low trait absorption [16]. Moreover, trait absorption was positively correlated with arousal induced by the music, with the highest correlation for music that induced sadness.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Trait and State Absorption in the Enjoyment of Music

2016

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Little is known about the role of state versus trait characteristics on our enjoyment of music. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of state and trait absorption upon preference for music, particularly preference for music that evokes negative emotions. The sample consisted of 128 participants who were asked to listen to two pieces of self-selected music and rate the music on variables including preference and felt and expressed emotions. Participants completed a brief measure of state absorption after listening to each piece, and a trait absorption inventory. State absorption was strongly positively correlated with music preference, whereas trait absorption was not. Trait absorption was related to preference for negative emotions in music, with chi-square analyses demonstrating greater enjoyment of negative emotions in music among individuals with high trait absorption. This is the first study to show that state and trait absorption have separable and distinct effects on a listener’s music experience, with state characteristics impacting music enjoyment in the moment, and trait characteristics influencing music preference based on its emotional content.

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“…If an appropriate sound is played back at an appropriate time, the actual wildlife might respond to the initial call. In this chorus-like experience, intraspecies communication in mixed reality between the user and the frogs could then possibly give the users a sense of belonging to nature in an experience similar to the peak experience in music therapy, which is triggered by choral singing [12]. The Wearable Forest system was exhibited and evaluated over five days during ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles, USA, and over six days during ACM Multimedia 2008 in Science World British Colombia in Vancouver, Canada.…”

Section: Human-computer-biosphere Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tele echo tube

Kobayashi

Hirose

Fujiwara

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia

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Currently, human-computer interaction (HCI) is primarily focused on human-centric interactions; however, people experience many nonhuman-centric interactions during the course of a day. Interactions with nature, such as experiencing the sounds of birds or trickling water, can imprint the beauty of nature in our memories. In this context, this paper presents an interface of such nonhuman interactions to observe people's reaction to the interactions through an imaginable interaction with a mythological creature. Tele Echo Tube (TET) is a speaking tube interface that acoustically interacts with a deep mountain echo through the slightly vibrating lampshade-like interface. TET allows users to interact with the mountain echo in real time through an augmented echo-sounding experience with the vibration over a satellite data network. This novel interactive system can create an imaginable presence of the mythological creature in the undeveloped natural locations beyond our cultural and imaginable boundaries. The results indicate that users take the reflection of the sound as a cue that triggers the nonlinguistic believability in the form of the mythological metaphor of the mountain echo. This echo-like experience of believable interaction in an augmented reality between a human and nature gave the users an imaginable presence of the mountain echo with a high degree of excitement. This paper describes the development and integration of nonhuman-centric design protocols, requirements, methods, and context evaluation.

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Music as a Trigger for Peak Experiences Among a College Staff Population

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

Modeling positive experiences in human-computer interaction

Modeling positive experiences in human-computer interaction

The Role of Trait and State Absorption in the Enjoyment of Music

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