Toward Haptic Cinematography: Enhancing Movie Experiences with Camera-Based Haptic Effects

Abstract

Haptics, the technology which brings tactile or force-feedback to users, has a great potential for enhancing movies and could lead to new immersive experiences. In this paper we introduce Haptic Cinematography which presents haptics as a new component of the filmmaker's toolkit. We propose a taxonomy of haptic effects and we introduce novel effects coupled with classical cinematographic motions to enhance video viewing experience. More precisely we propose two models to render haptic effects based on camera motions: the first model makes the audience feel the motion of the camera and the second provides haptic metaphors related to the semantics of the camera effect. Results from a user study suggest that these new effects improve the quality of experience. Filmmakers may use this new way of creating haptic effects to propose new immersive audiovisual experiences.

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“…Danieau et al (2013) discussed integrating haptic feedback with audiovisual systems to create haptic-audiovisual (HAV) content, allowing incorporation of tactile elements into creative works and providing enriched sensory experiences. Haptic cinematography was also introduced to leverage tactile effects for more immersive cinematic experiences (Danieau et al, 2014).…”

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“…Several studies have attempted to present tactile information synchronized with video to enhance multimedia experiences. Systems proposed in these studies present haptic stimuli that express the impact forces received by characters appearing in movies or haptic stimuli considered appropriate for user experience in a video from the first-person perspective (Ablart, Velasco, & Obrist, 2017;Danieau et al, 2012Danieau et al, , 2014Lemmens, Crompvoets, Brokken, van der Eerenbeemd, & de Vries, 2009). These studies additionally presented first-person tactile stimuli with fixed stories presented in videos to make the viewing experience more immersive.…”