Effect of Timing of Sound Feedback on Operation Performance

Abstract

: This study verified how timing of sound effects affects the user's operation performance with interactive content, such as computer games. We conducted an experiment to test the hypotheses that (1) operation performance is slightly degraded if the sound effects lag behind the visual beat with "good" timing and (2) operation performance is substantially degraded if the sound effects lag behind the visual beat with "bad" timing, where the "visual beat" in interactive content is the repetition of periodic visual accents in visual images. Our findings indicate that a delayed timing of sound effects degrades the operation performance, but the degradation depends not only on the degree of delay of the sound effects, but also on how in tune the sound effects are with the visual beat.

The Implementation of Collaborative Composition System

“…This screen realizes the workspace realization function on Section 5.1 (1). We define a theme as minimum of unit with meaning in the progression of music.…”

“…Both of them are the creative activities of the human. Therefore, there are many researches about music activities in the field of affective computing (Kansei Engineering) [1][2][3][4][5]. However, although most of those researches treat mainly the automatic generation of music using computer or the effects of music to human emotion or affective-cognitive, there are only few researches which deal with music composition as humans' creative activities in the field of affective computing.…”