This thesis evaluates the influence of audience engagement as an aesthetic element for providing visual enhancement to a music concert. The audience engagement is gathered using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) sensors, which the audience wears on their hands during the concert. In a small experimental setting two visualizations are compared: the first visualization is driven only by the music of t...

This paper describes a pilot study designed to tease out two dimensions of arcade gameplay: scale of input interface and performance environment. In order to probe how each dimension affects enjoyability and engagement, we employ multiple measures, including galvanic skin response (GSR), distracter tests, Likert scale surveys, and in-game telemetry. To examine the effect of scale, we compare ex...

This paper presents an experiment using physiological monitoring of heart rate and galvanic skin response to investigate the effects of a fully tracked human avatar representation on presence in immersive virtual environments (IVEs). The experiments will compare participants’ physiological reactions in a high fidelity virtual replica of the room occupied and their reactions to a stressful model...

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Fear-conditioning is one of the most widely used paradigms in attempts to unravel the processes and mechanisms underlying learning and plasticity. In most of the Pavlovian conditioning paradigms auditory stimulus is used as a conditioned stimulus (CS), but conditioning can be accomplished also to tactile CS. The whisker-to-barrel tactile system in mice offers convenient way to investigate the b...