Abstract: The term Universal Multimedia Experience (UME) has gained momentum and is
well recognized within the research community. As this approach puts the user into
the center stage, additional complexity is added to the overall quality assessment
problem which calls for a scientific framework to capture, measure, quantify, judge,
and explain the user experience. In previous work we have proposed the annotation of
multimedia content with sensory effect metadata that can be used to stimulate also
other senses than vision or audition. In this paper we report first results obtained
from subjective tests in the area of sensory effects attached to traditional
multimedia presentations such as movies that shall lead to an enhanced, unique, and
worthwhile user experience.