Judging crowds’ size by ear and by eye in virtual reality

Abstract

This research was supported by the EU FP7-ICT-2011-7 project VERVE (http://www.verveconsortium.eu/), grant n°288910. This work was performed within the Labex SMART (ANR-11-LABX-65) supported by French state funds managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche within the Investissements d'Avenir programme under reference ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02. The research leading to these results has also received funding from the program "Investissements d'avenir" ANR-10-IAIHU-06. We thank Thibaut Carpentier and Kévin Perros for their work on the elaboration of the auditory component of the virtual environment. We thank Camille Frey and Cassandra Visconti who contributed to the experimentation.