Shitsukan - the multisensory perception of quality

Journal article : Review

Abstract:: We often estimate, or perceive, the quality of materials, surfaces, and objects, what the Japanese refer to as 'shitsukan', by means of several of our senses. The majority of the literature on shitsukan perception has, though, tended to focus on the unimodal visual evaluation of stimulus properties. In part, this presumably reflects the widespread hegemony of the visual in the modern era and, in part, is a result of the growing interest, not to mention the impressive advances, in digital rendering amongst the computer graphics community. Nevertheless, regardless of such an oculocentric bias in so much of the empirical literature, it is important to note that several other senses often do contribute to the impression of the material quality of surfaces, materials, and objects as experienced in the real world, rather than just in virtual reality. Understanding the multisensory contributions to the perception of material quality, especially when combined with computational and neural data, is likely to have implications for a number of fields of basic research as well as being applicable to emerging domains such as, for example, multisensory augmented retail, not to mention multisensory packaging design.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: quality perception

material perception

multisensory

FFR

crossmodal

Shitsukan

incongruency
Subtype:: Review
Pubs id:: 1094514
Local pid:: pubs:1094514
Deposit date:: 2020-10-24
ARK identifier:: ark:/29072/ora_93e154c9ef68484e96bf64f787918bc4

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