Bergstrom, I;
Azevedo, S;
Papiotis, P;
Saldanha, N;
Slater, M;
(2017)
The Plausibility of a String Quartet Performance in Virtual Reality.
In: Steinicke, Frank and Mohler, Betty and Babu, Sabarish V. and Interrante, Victoria, (eds.)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics - IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Proceedings 2017.
(pp. pp. 1332-1339).
IEEE: Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Abstract
We describe an experiment that explores the contribution of auditory and other features to the illusion of plausibility in a virtual environment that depicts the performance of a string quartet. ‘Plausibility’ refers to the component of presence that is the illusion that the perceived events in the virtual environment are really happening. The features studied were: Gaze (the musicians ignored the participant, the musicians sometimes looked towards and followed the participant’s movements), Sound Spatialization (Mono, Stereo, Spatial), Auralization (no sound reflections, reflections corresponding to a room larger than the one perceived, reflections that exactly matched the virtual room), and Environment (no sound from outside of the room, birdsong and wind corresponding to the outside scene). We adopted the methodology based on color matching theory, where 20 participants were first able to assess their feeling of plausibility in the environment with each of the four features at their highest setting. Then five times participants started from a low setting on all features and were able to make transitions from one system configuration to another until they matched their original feeling of plausibility. From these transitions a Markov transition matrix was constructed, and also probabilities of a match conditional on feature configuration. The results show that Environment and Gaze were individually the most important factors influencing the level of plausibility. The highest probability transitions were to improve Environment and Gaze, and then Auralization and Spatialization. We present this work as both a contribution to the methodology of assessing presence without questionnaires, and showing how various aspects of a musical performance can influence plausibility.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Plausibility of a String Quartet Performance in Virtual Reality |
| Event: | IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR) - 2017 |
| Location: | Los Angeles, CA |
| Dates: | 18 March 2017 - 22 March 2017 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2657138 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2017.2657138 |
| 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: | presence, plausibility, place illusion, user studies, experimental methods, multimodal interaction, entertainment |
| UCL classification: | UCL 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/1550431 |
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