Listening to Rooms and Objects

Abstract

INTRODUCTION To develop models for virtual sound that can enhance user interaction in virtual reality applications, we need to expand our understanding of what we hear and how we hear [15,16]. In virtual immersive environments the addition of virtual interaction sounds can assist users in their understanding of these environments, especially for judging size and location of objects in a virtual space. To investigate the basis for this, on the human side, we designed an experiment with both blind and blindfolded participants to perform localisation tasks.