Evaluating the Influence of Mulsemedia Content in Reading
Natália Vieira, Anderson Pinto, Felipe Silva, Helder Yukio Okuno, Iury Amorim, Taymison Ramos, Diego B. Haddad, Glauco Fiorott Amorim, Gustavo Paiva Guedes, Joel André Ferreira dos Santos · 2018
Augmented e-books provide the reader with a better quality of experience (QoE) by enriching the e-books with multimedia content and interactive elements. In the multimedia field, an improve in QoE has been performed by the use of sensory effects, creating the so-called mulsemedia applications. In this paper, it is considered that e-books augmented with mulsemedia content influence the reader perception of the history environment, besides improving its QoE. It is presented a mulsemedia setup with light, wind and audio effects, which are synchronized with a written history. Among other discoveries, the collected data suggest that such elements have a more significant influence on the reader when the environment description tend to be vague, whereas in scenes whose details are precisely described this influence is rather minored.