Impact of Visual and Sound Orchestration on physiological arousal and tension in a horror game

Article Article scientifique Article Impact of Visual and Sound Orchestration on physiological arousal and tension in a horror game eng 2020 author Graja Sarra 837665 author Lopes Phil 872880 author Chanel Guillaume 0000-0002-6184-8924 628534 10.1109/TG.2020.3006053 2475-1510 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9130167/ Horror games represents a very specific genre specifically designed to elicit fear. These games provide a tremendous emotional experience balanced between stress and satisfaction. Yet, over time, the player acquires further insight of the mechanisms of the game, dissipating the creepy climate that reduces the emotional impact intended. This paper hypothesises that exploring existing facets within a game such as visuals and sounds might establish a good approach to renew the gaming experience. To understand the players emotional reactions towards context alteration an adaptation of a published game (P.T. by Konami 2014) was used. This context refers mainly to light effects, sounds and in-game events. To learn which game effects induce the strongest physiological reactions, an experiment was conducted and correlation between the physiological data, collected through the measure of the galvanic skin response (GSR), and that of the perceived emotion provided by participants, was investigated. Results show that the order in which effects are arranged can produce extensive emotional responses. They also suggest that psychological impact can be increased not only by the visual horror itself, but also through the process that slowly builds up to it, in particular the usage of sounds. Gameplay experience Affective computing Human-Computer Interaction Game content orchestration Emotion GSR Player response Dewey 025.063 13 Centre universitaire d'informatique 0D3 32 Département d'informatique 18 false 895 Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory IEEE Transactions on Games 14 8 be1f3159-4767-4160-b7f5-966f7a9e20e1 Article (Accepted version) Public TOG_20200629_Final.pdf 1186082 application/pdf openAccess Centres et instituts / Centre universitaire d'informatique Faculté des sciences / Département d'informatique

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