OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF CONSUMER STEREOSCOPIC 3D DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES USING ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC (EEG) SIGNALS

The growing public acceptance towards three-dimensional (3D) technology has
definitely made 3D become more and more popular especially in the entertainment
industries worldwide. Though substantial progress has been made in studying the
impact of3D contents from the ergonomics perspective, research regarding brain and
stereovision is still limited. Thus, this research has two main purposes: (i) to
investigate which consumer 3D stereoscopic technologies (i.e., active shutter and
passive polarized systems) is better for 3D content viewing and (ii) to verify whether
3D does provide better visualization of the scene than 2D. For this study, forty
subjects were selected among university students, aged between 19 to 25 years old
who had experienced in watching 3D movies in the past and had no visual and
cognitive impairments. Electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG)
data were recorded while subjects randomly viewed a series of movie clips in three
different visual modes, 2D, 3D active and 3D passive.