The central question in this document is whether sound quality degradation affects the perception of emotion. Based on this short review of literature I believe that it is safe to assume that as long as the contents of speech is intelligible, emotions can be heard.Note: This document one of the 'darlings' that I had to kill to keep my thesis focussed. I've invested little effort in making this a great piece for reading… (This document was written as an early summary of my literature review that was part of my graduation project. As a result of this investigation I decided not to dive into this matter any further)"Sound quality" has been analyzed systematically in emotion perception research in the form of inference studies (Scherer, 2003) which have been employed to investigate which properties of a sound are most important for the communication of emotions. One methodology for analyzing the respective contribution In one of these studies, of each parame…
Short update: I defended my thesis successfully, just have to await my diploma before I can call myself officially Master of Science in Human-Technology Interaction (or something along these lines) ;)I'm about to defend my thesis, if you are in the neighbourhood, you are welcome to visit it.Titel: The Influence of the Auditory Environment on the Emotional Perception of Speech Location: Eindhoven University of Technology, IPO building, room 1.18 Date: 16 May Start: 14:00 Supervisors: Armin Kohlrausch (TU/e & Philips Research), Harm Belt (Philips Research), Dik Hermes (TU/e) It is generally assumed that speech conveys information about how a person feels (see for an overview Scherer, 2003). Most communication, however, does not take place in isolation, in general there is context available as well. That context can play a role in the perception of emotion has been demonstrated before, e.g. by presenting expressive anchor faces next to a target face (Russel …
Communication between far away friends, or between family, can become (emotionally) intense from time to time. Although developments like internet based video telephony seem to be an improvement over regular, voice only, telephony, little is known about what is exactly important in these type of communication settings. If optimal communication quality is the main goal, it is of importance to know what to optimize, record, and what to play back, and how and when.Research conducted so far in this area is sparse and mainly focused on matching face-to-face communication as closely as possible, a situation where both are being situated at the same location; a feeling of being there (Hollan & Stornetta, 1992). Since video telephony communicates a visual image of the person, one may assume that it is better than voice only telephony considering this feeling of being there. Hollan and Stornetta (1992) found, however, that social presence and information rich…
Note to English readers: This was my Bachelor Thesis (Interaction Design) on auditory interfaces. Since this text on auditory human technology interaction is in Dutch, you might be interested in my other text on this matter written in english (and more up to date too), it's title is context sonifier.InleidingDoelstellingMet dit document tracht ik zo'n breed mogelijk licht te werpen op de ontwikkelingen en mogelijkheden omtrent auditieve ondersteuning van een mens-machine interface. Het primaire doel is om een beter inzicht te krijgen in hoe een visuele interface uitgebreid kan worden met auditieve elementen. Mogelijk vloeien hier nieuwe ideen uit.Uniforme auditieve vormgevingWanneer men kijkt naar de bestaande richtlijnen voor dergelijke interfaces, als Microsoft Windows, Apple OS-X, KDE, dan valt het op dat er weinig tot geen aandacht wordt geschonken aan voorschriften die leiden tot een meer uniforme auditieve vormgeving van het systeem.ToepassingsgebiedDe toevoe…
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