Full title: Feeling the music: exploring emotional effects of auditory tactile musical experiences

Key takeaways

Impact of multisensory experiences on emotions

showing multisensory integration of audio-tactile music (relative to unisensory) enhances upregulation of positive emotions and downregulates state anxiety.

Multisensory experiences significantly enhance emotional engagement. Audio-tactile music significantly increased positive mood and decreased state anxiety. This validates the premise of my project, which seeks to use cross-sensory interactions to create an immersive and engaging user experience.

Applied to project

Successfully integrating visual and auditory cues (“congruent sensory input”) will likely enhance the user’s emotional experience, resulting in a more unique and engaging interaction than auditory or visual information alone.