Emotional effects of dynamic textures

Emotional effects of dynamic textures

Toet, A.
Henselmans, M.
Lucassen, M.P.
Gevers, T.

2011

This study explores the effects of various spatiotemporal dynamic texture characteristics on human emotions. The emotional experience of auditory (eg, music) and haptic repetitive patterns has been studied extensively. In contrast, the emotional experience of visual dynamic textures is still largely unknown, despite their natural ubiquity and increasing use in digital media. Participants watched a set of dynamic textures, representing either water or various different media, and selfreported their emotional experience. Motion complexity was found to have mildly relaxing and nondominant effects. In contrast, motion change complexity was found to be arousing and dominant. The speed of dynamics had arousing, dominant, and unpleasant effects. The amplitude of dynamics was also regarded as unpleasant. The regularity of the dynamics over the textures’ area was found to be uninteresting, nondominant, mildly relaxing, and mildly pleasant. The spatial scale of the dynamics had an unpleasant, arousing, and dominant effect, which was larger for textures with diverse content than for water textures. For water textures, the effects of spatial contrast were arousing, dominant, interesting, and mildly unpleasant. None of these effects were observed for textures of diverse content. The current findings are relevant for the design and synthesis of affective multimedia content and for affective scene indexing and retrieval.

Emotion
Dynamic textures
Pleasure
Arousal
Dominance
Human
PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
BSS - Behavioural and Societal Sciences

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:642b5567-ed2c-4e84-b6ce-4bd158f6aaf9

https://doi.org/10.1068/i0477

443179

i-Perception, 2 (2), 969-991

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