Nordic Interactive Multimedia Research School2 (NIMRES2) Proc., "In Terms of Design", University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, 28.-30.5.1999
Virtual Laboratory-
Audiovisual psychophysiological laboratory
Klaus A J Riederer
Research Scientist, Ph.D. student
Helsinki University of Technology
Laboratory of Computational Engineering (LCE), Cognitive Technology group
Finland
Klaus.Riederer@hut.fi, www.lce.hut.fi/~kar
The study of human multisensory, especially audiovisual perception, has obtained increased attention with the development of virtual reality systems, teleconferencing, computer games and home theater systems. The basic research of cognitive technology involve the study of neurocognitive mechanisms of human perception that is still at an infant level and many new issues are to be found. At LCE we are constructing an audiovisual psychophysiological laboratory, which involves both visual and auditory 3-D modeling. This presentation concentrates on the latter, on spatial hearing and its modeling, i.e., 3-D sound.