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Thresholds for Auditory-Tactile Asynchrony

Realistic simulation and perceived “immersion” within a multimodal display for telecommunication and entertainment can be enhanced, or completely mitigated, as a function of inter-modal timing asynchronies between the multimodal rendering systems (system-system asynchrony). Tolerable asynchronies are have been extensively examined for auditory-visual stimuli but less so for auditory-haptic cues. Realistic simulation and perceived “immersion” can be enhanced, or completely mitigated, as a function of inter-modal timing asynchronies between the multimodal rendering systems. Data are presented from two experiments where auditory stimuli are varied in time of arrival (lead-lag) relative to a tactile pulse. Results indicate variability between participants in terms of overall sensitivity. Generally, sensitivity is greater for auditory stimuli leading haptic stimuli, compared to the opposite condition.

Authors: Adelstein, Bernard; Anderson, Mark; BEGAULT, Durand; McClain, Byran
Affiliations: NASA Ames Research Center; QSS Group, Inc.; San Jose State University Foundation(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention:118 (May 2005) Paper Number:6511 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Psychoacoustics, Perception, Listening Tests

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