eprintid: 1464800
rev_number: 34
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datestamp: 2015-04-06 18:49:36
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creators_name: Tajadura Jimenez, A
creators_name: Basia, M
creators_name: Deroy, O
creators_name: Fairhurst, M
creators_name: Marquardt, N
creators_name: Berthouze, N
title: As light as your footsteps: altering walking sounds to change perceived body weight, emotional state and gait
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D05
divisions: F70
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F48
keywords: Auditory body perception; multimodal interfaces; sonification; interaction styles; emotion; evaluation method.
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: An ever more sedentary lifestyle is a serious problem in our society. Enhancing people’s exercise adherence through technology remains an important research challenge. We propose a novel approach for a system supporting walking that draws from basic findings in neuroscience research.
Our shoe-based prototype senses a person’s footsteps and
alters in real-time the frequency spectra of the sound they produce while walking. The resulting sounds are consistent with those produced by either a lighter or heavier body. Our user study showed that modified walking sounds change one’s own perceived body weight and lead to a related gait pattern. In particular, augmenting the high frequencies of the sound leads to the perception of having a thinner body and enhances the motivation for physical activity inducing a more dynamic swing and a shorter heel strike. We here discuss the opportunities and the questions our findings open.
date: 2015-04-23
publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702374
vfaculties: VFBRS
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_source: Manually entered
elements_id: 1024782
doi: 10.1145/2702123.2702374
isbn_13: 9781450331456
lyricists_name: Berthouze, Nadia
lyricists_name: Marquardt, Nicolai
lyricists_name: Tajadura-Jimenez, Ana
lyricists_id: NBERT19
lyricists_id: NMARQ26
lyricists_id: ATAJA50
full_text_status: public
series: Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
volume: 33
place_of_pub: Seoul, Republic of Korea
pagerange: 2943-2952
event_title: CHI'15, 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 18 - 23, 2015
event_location: Seoul
event_dates: 2015-04-20 - 2015-04-23
book_title: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
editors_name: Begole, B
editors_name: Kim, J
editors_name: Woo, W
editors_name: Inkpen, K
citation:        Tajadura Jimenez, A;    Basia, M;    Deroy, O;    Fairhurst, M;    Marquardt, N;    Berthouze, N;      (2015)    As light as your footsteps: altering walking sounds to change perceived body weight, emotional state and gait.                     In: Begole, B and Kim, J and Woo, W and Inkpen, K, (eds.) Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.  (pp. pp. 2943-2952).  Association for Computing Machinery: Seoul, Republic of Korea.       Green open access   
 
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