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Enhancing the User Experience with the Sensory Effect Media Player and AmbientLib

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Advances in Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2012)

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Multimedia content is increasingly used in every area of our life. Still, each type of content only stimulates the visual and/or the hearing system. Thus, the user experience depends only on those two stimuli. In this paper we introduce a standard which offers the possibility to add additional effects to multimedia content. Furthermore, we present a multimedia player and a Web browser plug-in which uses this standard to stimulate further senses by using additional sensory effects (i.e., wind, vibration, and light) to enhance the user experience resulting in a unique, worthwhile sensory experience.

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  1. Inst. of Information Technology, Multimedia Communication Group, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstraße 65-67, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Markus Waltl, Benjamin Rainer, Christian Timmerer & Hermann Hellwagner

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  1. Institute of Information Technology, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstr. 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Klaus Schoeffmann

  2. EURECOM, 2229 Rout des Crêtes, BP 193, 06904, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

    Bernard Merialdo

  3. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, 15213-3890, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Alexander G. Hauptmann

  4. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Ave, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Chong-Wah Ngo

  5. Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Roberts Building, Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE, London, UK

    Yiannis Andreopoulos

  6. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrasse 9-11 188/2, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Christian Breiteneder

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Waltl, M., Rainer, B., Timmerer, C., Hellwagner, H. (2012). Enhancing the User Experience with the Sensory Effect Media Player and AmbientLib. In: Schoeffmann, K., Merialdo, B., Hauptmann, A.G., Ngo, CW., Andreopoulos, Y., Breiteneder, C. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Modeling. MMM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27355-1_58

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