147642 20260217205536.0 doi 10.1007/s00371-024-03707-6 sideral 141073 ART-2024-141073 eng Jiménez-Navarro, Daniel Minimally disruptive auditory cues: their impact on visual performance in virtual reality 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to become a revolutionary technology with a significant impact on our daily lives. The immersive experience provided by VR equipment, where the user’s body and senses are used to interact with the surrounding content, accompanied by the feeling of presence elicits a realistic behavioral response. In this work, we leverage the full control of audiovisual cues provided by VR to study an audiovisual suppression effect (ASE) where auditory stimuli degrade visual performance. In particular, we explore if barely audible sounds (in the range of the limits of hearing frequencies) generated following a specific spatiotemporal setup can still trigger the ASE while participants are experiencing high cognitive loads. A first study is carried out to find out how sound volume and frequency can impact this suppression effect, while the second study includes higher cognitive load scenarios closer to real applications. Our results show that the ASE is robust to variations in frequency, volume and cognitive load, achieving a reduction of visual perception with the proposed hardly audible sounds. Using such auditory cues means that this effect could be used in real applications, from entertaining to VR techniques like redirected walking. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/PID2022-141539NB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T34-23R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 2.9 2024 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 49 / 129 = 0.38 2024 Q2 T2 0.637 2024 Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 2024 Q2 Software 2024 Q2 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 Q2 6.0 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Serrano, Ana Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-7796-3177 Malpica, Sandra Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8016-7649 5007 570 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms. Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. (2024), [15 pp.] Vis. comput. VISUAL COMPUTER 0178-2789 Minimally Disruptive Auditory Cues: Their Impact on Visual Performance in Virtual Reality https://minimalase.mpi-inf.mpg.de/ 1350997 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147642/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2319629 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147642/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:147642 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:34:20 ARTICLE