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Inducing Emotional Response in Interactive Media: A Pilot Study

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Video games, entertainment, education, and training media have been developed for many years, and eliciting emotional experiences is an integral part of that process. Production and editing of the media in order to produce the desired emotional experiences can be expensive and cumbersome to media designers. This paper presents a pilot study intended to show that such experiences can be induced with after-the-fact audio-visual effects. As subjects of the user study, players are given the same virtual environment with two emotional states: fear, and peace. Over 70 % of players report feeling the proper emotional response in both environmental states, revealing that it is indeed possible to induce emotional response with after-the-fact audio-visual effects, hinting at future possibilities for drag-and-drop emotional experience filters.

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    Unity. https://unity3d.com/unity.

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    Unity Gallery. https://unity3d.com/showcase/gallery.

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    Unity Standard Assets. https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/32351.

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    Interactive Audio. https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/18354.

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  1. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93407, USA

    Keenan M. Reimer & Foaad Khosmood

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  1. University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

    Colin Allison

  2. INESC TEC and Universidade Aberta, Coimbra, Portugal

    Leonel Morgado

  3. Inst. for Info. System & Comp. System, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Johanna Pirker

  4. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA

    Dennis Beck

  5. Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana, USA

    Jonathon Richter

  6. Inst. for Info. System & Comp. System, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Christian Gütl

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Reimer, K.M., Khosmood, F. (2016). Inducing Emotional Response in Interactive Media: A Pilot Study. In: Allison, C., Morgado, L., Pirker, J., Beck, D., Richter, J., Gütl, C. (eds) Immersive Learning Research Network. iLRN 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 621. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41769-1_10

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