User-experience in design and use: enhancing the experience of media content with programmable surround lighting

Abstract

Programmable surround lighting has the potential to enhance user-experience of media content, but there is a lack of research demonstrating this. Building on existing work in user-experience and Kurosu's framework for user-experience design and evaluation, we developed a method for testing people's experience of video content with added programmable controlled surround lighting. We employed simple video content to evoke a response of positive or negative affect. Using a repeated-measures design ( N = 33), we manipulated the colour of surround lighting to enhance the affect response (yellow and green for positive affect