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.
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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.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | As light as your footsteps: altering walking sounds to change perceived body weight, emotional state and gait |
| Event: | CHI'15, 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 18 - 23, 2015 |
| Location: | Seoul |
| Dates: | 2015-04-20 - 2015-04-23 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781450331456 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/2702123.2702374 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702374 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Auditory body perception; multimodal interfaces; sonification; interaction styles; emotion; evaluation method. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1464800 |
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