Authors:
Takumi Shirokura
;
Nagisa Munekata
and
Tetsuo Ono
Affiliation:
Hokkaido University, Japan
Keyword(s):
Video Player, Virtual Reality, Physiological Computing, Entertainment Computing, User Experience.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Assistive Technology
;
Augmentative Communication
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Interactive Physiological Systems
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
We can share non-verbal emotional experiences, such as excitement and pleasure, by watching movies and sports events with others, like our friends and family. These shared experiences are thought to enhance excitement and pleasure compared to when watching videos alone. Our research provides this shared experience on the internet by sharing the viewer's excitement with others while watching videos that are on the web. We studied the relationship between users’ excitement while watching videos on the web and their impressions of those videos. Here, we introduce a video player called ExciTube that allows users to share their excitement and view other users’ excitement as visual information alongside the video they are watching. The user’s excitement is expressed and shared by using avatars. We carried out user-involved demonstrations of ExciTube at our laboratory and at a Japanese domestic Computer Entertainment Developers Conference, and confirmed that people did enjoy using the syste
m and felt other people’s sense of excitement.
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