Sound and immersion in the first-person shooter: Mixed measurement of the player's sonic experience

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-15

  Grimshaw, Mark ^a   Lindley, Craig A ^a   Nacke, Lennart ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOTIONAL VALENCES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; MIXED MEASUREMENTS; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT;

COMPUTER GAMES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; SURVEYS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84876900397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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