Improving the visitor's end-of-festival experience

Visitors who return from a festival experience an empty feeling combined with fatigue. In this thesis, this experience is called the void. An established psychological phenomenon called the Peak-End rule describes how events are judged by both their peaks, be they positive or negative, and their ends. The end of festivals is now often perceived...

Sound Reflections in an audio-based game for visually impaired children

In this thesis a model for sound reflections designed which is to be used in an audio-based game for visually impaired people is described. This project is a part of a three-group bachelor graduation project of six peoplein total. The three groups combined create a working game for visually impaired children, meant to be used to train the user’s...

3D Audio for Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) is an effective method to treat anxiety disorders and comes with many advantages over exposure in vivo, the latter being exposure in real-life. VRET is done by exposing patients gradually with their fear by using immersive virtual environments (VEs). Most attention in VRET research goes to visuals and less...