How visual discomfort affects 3DTV viewers' emotional arousal

Miguel Barreda-Angeles (1) , Romuald Pépion (2) , Emilie Bosc (2) , Patrick Le Callet (2) , Alexandre Pereda-Banos (1)

1 BM - Barcelona Media [Barcelona]
2 irccyn-ivc

We present the results of a research on the effects of image distor-tions known to induce visual discomfort (namely, the introduction of Gaussian blur on one visual field) on the emotional reactions of 3DTV viewers. Emotional reactions were explored by means of self-reported as well as psychophysiological methods. The re-sults showed that, despite visual discomfort not having an effect on self-reported emotions, the level of electrodermal activity (a physiological correlate of emotional arousal) was clearly affected, suggesting the existence of seemingly complex effects of visual discomfort over viewers' emotional arousal.

Mots clés: 3DTV; 3DTV viewer emotional arousal; Data models; electrodermal activity; emotional reactions; emotions; en-tertainment; Entertainment industry; image distortions; Physiology; Psychology; psychophysiological methods; psychophysiology; Quality of Experience; Quality of service; Semantics; three-dimensional television; visual discomfort; Visualization

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Miguel Barreda-Angeles, Romuald Pépion, Emilie Bosc, Patrick Le Callet, Alexandre Pereda-Banos. How visual discomfort affects 3DTV viewers' emotional arousal. 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), 2014, Jul 2014, Budapest, Bulgaria. pp.1--4, ⟨10.1109/3DTV.2014.6874718⟩. ⟨hal-01059975⟩