Psychologically motivated techniques for emotional sound in computer games

Proceedings of the Audio Mostly Conference - A Conference on Interaction with Sound

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 20-26

  Ekman, Inger ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO-VISUAL MEDIA; CURRENT THEORIES; EMOTIONAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; MUSIC PERCEPTION; SOUND DESIGNS; SOUND PERCEPTION;

ANIMATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DESIGN;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 77951030445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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