Relations between selected musical parameters and expressed emotions

Berg, Jan; Wingstedt, Johnny

doi:10.1145/1178477.1178499

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“…Further understanding of these aspects is vital for reaching a deeper understanding of how music affects us all, and also for finding new and better ways to employ music as an active and effective means of expression in various forms of computer entertainment [11].…”

Section: The Role Of Background Music In Video Gamesmentioning

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The Influence of Background Music of Video Games on Immersion

Fu¹

2015

J Psychol Psychother

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The background music has been proved to be an indispensable part in every successful video game. At the same time, all the video game designers and players hope video games could be as immersive as possible. Present research aimed to make an investigation about the role of video games background music in the influence of players' subjective immersion. Eighty participants were employed according to their game experience to join the experiment. All of them were assigned in pairs to finish a same video game synchronously with local area network. One was with earphone while the other not. After 20 minutes' gameplay, they needed to complete three missions (questionnaire, task after game and time distortion) with the purpose of detecting their immersion during video game. The results showed that the participants with background music got significant higher scores from questionnaire, performed worse in after-game task and expressed more serious time distortion than those participants without hearing background music. But these changes just happened to low gamers in the questionnaire and time distortion. Besides, correlations were made to find that only the questionnaire scores and time distortion were significantly related. These results of present research showed that background music did increase participants' immersion. But this improvement was likely just happened in low gamers.

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Section: The Role Of Background Music In Video Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Influence of Background Music of Video Games on Immersion

Fu¹

2015

J Psychol Psychother

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“…These show how different factors in musical structure effects the perceived emotional expressions (reviewed by Gabrielsson and Lindström [17]). Recent notable implementations in the area include Berg and Wingstedt's studies with the REMUPP tool [33], showing how musical parameters can contribute to expressing the emotions of 'happiness' and 'sadness' [18]. Taylor, Torres and Boulanger recently presented a real-time system that allow musicians to interact with synthetic virtual characters as they perform [30], and Livingstone and Brown proposed a dynamic music environment where music tracks adjust in real-time to "the emotion of the in-game state" [20].…”

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“…Since the Mind Music plays several tracks simultaneously that in many cases are independent of each other we have narrowed down the number of factors in order to decrease the level of complexity to two factors; harmony and time signature. We have also been inspired by the results of a study by Berg and Wingstedt [18], mode and tempo (among several other factors), are studied in respect to how "happiness" and "sadness" is perceived by the listener.…”

Section: Mind Musicmentioning

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The soundtrack of your mind

Eladhari

Nieuwdorp

Fridenfalk

2006

Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

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In this paper we describe an experimental application for individualized adaptive music for games. Expression of emotion is crucial for increasing believability. Since a fundamental aspect of music is it's ability to express emotions research into the area of believable agents can benefit from exploring how music can be used. In our experiment we use an affective model that can be integrated to player characters. Music is composed to reflect the affective processes of mood, emotion, and sentiment. The composition takes results of empirical studies regarding the influence of different factors in musical structure on perceived musical expression into account. The musical output from the test application varies in harmony and time signature along a matrix of moods, moods that change depending on what emotions are activated during game play.

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“…However, they are not sufficient enough to deliver their feelings vividly. A fundamental aspect of music is its ability to express emotions [2]. Music is widely used to enhance the emotional impact of movies.…”

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Sound design for emotion and intention expression of socially interactive robots

Jee¹,

Jeong

Kim

et al. 2010

Intel Serv Robotics

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The current concept of robots has been greatly influenced by the image of robots from science fiction. Since robots were introduced into human society as partners the importance of human-robot interaction has grown. In this paper, we have designed seven musical sounds, five of which express intention and two that express emotion for the English teacher robot, Silbot. To identify the sound design considerations, we analyzed the sounds of robots, R2-D2 and Wall-E, from two popular movies, Star Wars and Wall-E, respectively. From the analysis, we found that intonation, pitch, and timbre are dominant musical parameters to express intention and emotion. To check the validity of these designed sounds for intention and emotion, we performed a recognition rate experiment. The experiment showed that the five designed sounds for intentions and the two for emotions are sufficient to deliver the intended emotions.

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Relations between selected musical parameters and expressed emotions

Cited by 18 publications

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The Influence of Background Music of Video Games on Immersion

The Influence of Background Music of Video Games on Immersion

The soundtrack of your mind

Sound design for emotion and intention expression of socially interactive robots

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