音によるフィードバックのタイミングが操作パフォーマンスに与える影響

抄録

This study verified how timing of sound effects affects the user's operation performance with interactive content, such as computer games. We conducted an experiment to test the hypotheses that (1) operation performance is slightly degraded if the sound effects lag behind the visual beat with “good” timing and (2) operation performance is substantially degraded if the sound effects lag behind the visual beat with “bad” timing, where the “visual beat” in interactive content is the repetition of periodic visual accents in visual images. Our findings indicate that a delayed timing of sound effects degrades the operation performance, but the degradation depends not only on the degree of delay of the sound effects, but also on how in tune the sound effects are with the visual beat.