Influence of full-body vibration adapted to foreground components on high-level perception of reality

Shota Abe, Zhenglie Cui, Shuichi Sakamoto, Yôiti Suzuki, Jiro Gyoba

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Abstract

To develop advanced multimedia communications systems, understanding how humans perceive reality from the media presented by the systems is important. Various indexes can be used to evaluate the sense of reality. While the sense of presence is an evaluation index that includes background information, the sense of verisimilitude focuses on foreground information. By adding appropriate sensory information related to the foreground or background components, these perceptual realities can be enhanced. Based on this concept, we investigated the effect of vibration information added to audio-visual content. In this study, vibration information was generated from a sound that included rich information about the content. We generated nine vibration types by adjusting the cutoff frequency and the carrier frequency of the sound. The results showed that higher verisimilitude was observed when vibration closely connected to foreground components was added to a scene. Moreover, under this condition, the sense of presence was hardly affected even when the vibration was added to the content. These results suggest that enhancing realism is possible by artificially generating vibrations from sound if the auditory signal is appropriately processed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics
Subtitle of host publicationIntegrating 4th EAA Euroregio 2019
EditorsMartin Ochmann, Vorlander Michael, Janina Fels
PublisherInternational Commission for Acoustics (ICA)
Pages5869-5876
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9783939296157
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event23rd International Congress on Acoustics: Integrating 4th EAA Euroregio, ICA 2019 - Aachen, Germany
Duration: 2019 Sept 92019 Sept 23

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics
Volume2019-September
ISSN (Print)2226-7808
ISSN (Electronic)2415-1599

Conference

Conference23rd International Congress on Acoustics: Integrating 4th EAA Euroregio, ICA 2019
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityAachen
Period19/9/919/9/23

Keywords

  • Full-body vibration
  • Multimodal perception
  • Perceived reality
  • Sense of presence
  • Sense of verisimilitude

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