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Sensory effects for ambient experiences in the World Wide Web

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More and more content in various formats becomes available via the World Wide Web (WWW). Currently available Web browsers are able to access and interpret these contents (i.e., Web videos, text, image, and audio). These contents stimulate only senses like audition or vision. Recently, it has been proposed to stimulate also other senses while consuming multimedia content, through so-called sensory effects. These sensory effects aim to enhance the ambient experience by providing effects such as light, wind, vibration, etc. The effects are represented as Sensory Effect Metadata (SEM) description which is associated to multimedia content and is rendered on devices like fans, vibration chairs, or lamps. In this paper we present two subjective quality assessments which comprise sensory effects, such as light, in the area of the WWW and their results achieved. The first assessment evaluates the influence of light effects on the Quality of Experience (QoE). The second assessment measures the impact of different settings for the color calculation on the viewing experience. Furthermore, we describe a Web browser plug-in for Mozilla Firefox which is able to render such sensory effects that are provided via the WWW.

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This work was supported in part by the EC in the context of the ALICANTE (FP7-ICT-248652) and SocialSensor (FP7-ICT-287975), and QUALINET (COST IC 1003) projects.

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    Markus Waltl, Christian Timmerer, Benjamin Rainer & Hermann Hellwagner

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Waltl, M., Timmerer, C., Rainer, B. et al. Sensory effects for ambient experiences in the World Wide Web. Multimed Tools Appl 70, 1141–1160 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1099-8

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