TY - GEN
T1 - The perceived emotion of isolated synthetic audio
T2 - 2018 International Audio Mostly Conference - A Conference on Interaction with Sound: Sound in Immersion and Emotion, AM 2018
AU - Baird, Alice
AU - Parada-Cabaleiro, Emilia
AU - Fraser, Cameron
AU - Hantke, Simone
AU - Schuller, Björn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/9/12
Y1 - 2018/9/12
N2 - The ability of sound to enhance human wellbeing has been known since ancient civilisations, and methods can be found today across domains of health and within a variety of cultures. There are an abundance of sound-based methods which show benefits for both physical and mental-states of wellbeing. Current methods vary from low frequency vibrations to high frequency distractions, and from drone-like sustain to rhythmical pulsing, with limited knowledge of a listeners psycho-physical perception of this. In this regard, for the presented study 40 listeners were asked to evaluate the perceived emotional dimensions of Valence and Arousal from a dataset of 144 isolated synthetic periodic waveforms. Results show that Arousal does correlate moderately to fundamental frequency, and that the sine waveform is perceived as significantly different to square and sawtooth waveforms when evaluating perceived Arousal. The general results suggest that isolated synthetic audio can be modelled as a means of evoking affective states of emotion.
AB - The ability of sound to enhance human wellbeing has been known since ancient civilisations, and methods can be found today across domains of health and within a variety of cultures. There are an abundance of sound-based methods which show benefits for both physical and mental-states of wellbeing. Current methods vary from low frequency vibrations to high frequency distractions, and from drone-like sustain to rhythmical pulsing, with limited knowledge of a listeners psycho-physical perception of this. In this regard, for the presented study 40 listeners were asked to evaluate the perceived emotional dimensions of Valence and Arousal from a dataset of 144 isolated synthetic periodic waveforms. Results show that Arousal does correlate moderately to fundamental frequency, and that the sine waveform is perceived as significantly different to square and sawtooth waveforms when evaluating perceived Arousal. The general results suggest that isolated synthetic audio can be modelled as a means of evoking affective states of emotion.
KW - Affective computing
KW - Perception
KW - Sound healing
KW - Synthetic audio
KW - Wellbeing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060910210&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3243274.3243277
DO - 10.1145/3243274.3243277
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060910210
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Audio Mostly - A Conference on Interaction with Sound - 2018 Sound in Immersion and Emotion, AM 2018 - Conference Proceedings
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 12 September 2018 through 14 September 2018
ER -
