TY - GEN
T1 - Subjective evaluation of an olfaction enhanced immersive virtual reality environment
AU - Egan, Darragh
AU - Keighrey, Conor
AU - Barrett, John
AU - Qiao, Yuansong
AU - Brennan, Sean
AU - Timmerer, Christian
AU - Murray, Niall
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/10/27
Y1 - 2017/10/27
N2 - Recent1 research efforts have reported findings on user Quality of Experience (QoE) of immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences. Truly immersive multimedia experiences also include multisensory components such as olfaction, tactile etc., in addition to audiovisual stimuli. In this context, this paper reports the results of a user QoE study of an olfaction-enhanced immersive VR environment. The results presented compare the user QoE between two groups (VR vs VR + Olfaction) and consider how the addition of olfaction affected user QoE levels (considering sense of enjoyment, immersion and discomfort). Self-reported measures via post-test questionnaire (10 questions) only revealed one statistically significant difference between the groups; in terms of how users felt with respect to their senses being stimulated. The presence of olfaction in the VR environment did not have a statistically significant effect in terms of user levels of enjoyment, immersion and discomfort.
AB - Recent1 research efforts have reported findings on user Quality of Experience (QoE) of immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences. Truly immersive multimedia experiences also include multisensory components such as olfaction, tactile etc., in addition to audiovisual stimuli. In this context, this paper reports the results of a user QoE study of an olfaction-enhanced immersive VR environment. The results presented compare the user QoE between two groups (VR vs VR + Olfaction) and consider how the addition of olfaction affected user QoE levels (considering sense of enjoyment, immersion and discomfort). Self-reported measures via post-test questionnaire (10 questions) only revealed one statistically significant difference between the groups; in terms of how users felt with respect to their senses being stimulated. The presence of olfaction in the VR environment did not have a statistically significant effect in terms of user levels of enjoyment, immersion and discomfort.
KW - Multisensory experiences
KW - Olfaction
KW - Quality of experience
KW - Subjective evaluations
KW - Virtual reality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85036657899&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3132361.3132363
DO - 10.1145/3132361.3132363
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85036657899
T3 - AltMM 2017 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities, co-located with MM 2017
SP - 15
EP - 18
BT - AltMM 2017 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities, co-located with MM 2017
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities, AltMM 2017
Y2 - 27 October 2017
ER -