Sound Design for Affective Interaction

Dewitt, Anna; Bresin, Roberto

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74889-2_46

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“…In this section we present the main results of a recent study in which a model for the synthesis of natural footstep sounds was developed (DeWitt and Bresin, 2007), and preliminarily assessed. The starting point was the model of natural walking and running footstep sounds on aggregate materials that presented in Section 3.3.…”

Section: Affective Footstep Soundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sound design and perception in walking interactions

Visell

Fontana

Giordano

et al. 2009

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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Section: Affective Footstep Soundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sound design and perception in walking interactions

Visell

Fontana

Giordano

et al. 2009

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…Affective Diary recorded the physiological state of the user using a wearable device, and the number of Bluetooth devices connected to the diary. DeWitt and Bresin [16] has shown that sonification can be used to enhance the visual representation of affective states of the user recorded by the diary throughout the day, but it is unclear from their work how sonification can be used to create or alter the mood of the user.…”

Section: A) Sonificationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…to create mood and hopefully to have a positive affects on people who are isolated and lonely due to illness or old age. Sonification has been used to display affective state of a user using software called Affective Diary as illustrated by DeWitt and Bresin [16]. Affective Diary recorded the physiological state of the user using a wearable device, and the number of Bluetooth devices connected to the diary.…”

Section: A) Sonificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hearing but not listening: Auditory icons and presence

Baharin

Muhlberger

2010

2010 International Conference on User Science and Engineering (I-USEr)

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This paper explores the usage of auditory icons in creating the feeling of presence of a remote person in a virtual simulation of domestic life. Auditory icons are the representation of processes or activities using everyday sounds. Presence is defined in this research as 'the feeling of being with others'. In this research, domestic life is simulated using the game called The Sims. Participants were asked to play the game while being able to hear auditory icons that represent another player who were playing the game in a remote place. In actuality the auditory icons is just a sound loop. A presence questionnaire given to 49 users participating in 2 research trials shows that auditory icons can easily be ignored and thus do not induce a high level of social presence, but when the auditory icons are given attention to, social presence is significantly increased. The results from the trials are also discussed from the perspective of Acoustic Communication Theory, which shows that as the auditory environment becomes saturated with sound objects, people tend to be 'distracted listeners'. At the time of writing more experiments are being done to study the effects of auditory icons on presence.

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“…2). The techniques adopted to render them at auditory level are illustrated in Sections 4,5,6. For the purpose of these experiments, two types of surfaces, one solid (wood) and one aggregate (gravel), were chosen. The reason for choosing two materials was to assess whether the surface type affected the quality of the results.…”

Section: Synthesis Of Footstep Soundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, footstep sounds of a person walking on a wooden floor provide information about the gender, age, size, and emotional intention of the person, and hardness and material of both shoes and floor [3]. Other studies demonstrated the possibility of recognizing simulated surfaces subjects are walking upon [4], as well as emotional intentions of the walker [5,6].…”

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Temporal and amplitude aspects in sonically simulating walking over bumps, holes and flat surfaces

Turchet

Serafin

2012

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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This paper describes an experiment whose goal is to assess the role of temporal and amplitude variations in sonically simulating the act of walking over a bump or a hole. In particular, it has been investigated whether the timing between heel and toe and the timing between footsteps, as well as variations in the amplitude of heel and toe affect the perception of walking on unflat surfaces. Forty five subjects participated to three between-subjects experiments where they were asked to interact with a desktop system simulating bumps, holes and flat surfaces by means of auditory cues. Results show that it is possible to simulate a bump or a hole by only using temporal information in the auditory modality. Furthermore results show that the proposed amplitude variations are not sufficient to provide the information concerning uneven surfaces.

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Sound Design for Affective Interaction

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Sound design and perception in walking interactions

Sound design and perception in walking interactions

Hearing but not listening: Auditory icons and presence

Temporal and amplitude aspects in sonically simulating walking over bumps, holes and flat surfaces

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