The Impact of MultiSensorial Media in Smart Home Scenario on User Experience and Emotions The traditional multimedia contents only stimulate sight and hearing human senses. Therefore, the research efforts try to provide realistic media contents to the users to stimulate the other senses, realistic media contents are media with multiple sensorial effects, with the aim of increasing userxe2x80x99s sense of reality and emotions strength through the five senses representation. In home environment, to deliver the additional effects, customary devices (e.g., air conditioning, lights, smartphones, etc.), provided of opportune smart features, can be deployed. In smart home use cases, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has been widely adopted to connect smart devices. This paper presents user perception of IoTbased multisensorial media delivery to TV users in home entertainment scenario, through subjective test measurement campaign. In particular we analyzed the influence of three sensory effects (i.e., airflow, lights and vibration) on user annoyance, emotions, sense of reality, and if users consider the sensory effects distracting, through presenting ten audiovisual sequences that contain different emotions like surprise, anger, fear, fun, and worry, which people commonly use to describe emotions in audiovisual sequences. The participantsxe2x80x99 response employed to reveal the impact of sensory effects on user experience.

Fulfillment of higherorder psychological needs through technology: The case of smart thermostats Abstract   Smart home technologies (SHTs), such as smart thermostats, are a growing commercial opportunity. SHTs can offer a broad spectrum of potential functional, experiential and esthetic benefits, yet much of the prior research on the adoption of SHTs has been limited by a narrow TAMbased functional view. Relatively little is known about the salient user beliefs related to the experiential and esthetic benefits of SHTs that may affect SHT adoption. To address this gap in research, we conduct a mixedmethods study, wherein we inductively develop a set of factors that reflect salient user considerations associated with smart thermostats and we examine the effects of the elicited factors on the smart thermostat adoption intention. We find that performance expectancy, emphasized by TAM, has a relatively minor effect on the smart thermostat adoption intention and effort expectancy has no effect at all. We identify a novel factor, which we term technocoolness, as the key predictor of the adoption intention in this context. Technocoolness is a multidimensional construct that encompasses the perceptions that the technology can make a home look modern and futuristic, can make the user feel technologically advanced, and can be fun to use. Technocoolness reveals that the technology capacity to fulfill higherorder psychological needs can dominate purely functional considerations in innovative technology adoption decisions.