The sweet smell of success: Enhancing multimedia applications with olfaction

  • Authors:
  • Georghita Ghinea;Oluwakemi Ademoye

  • Affiliations:
  • Brunel University, U.K.;Brunel University, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Olfaction, or smell, is one of the last challenges which multimedia applications have to conquer. As far as computerized smell is concerned, there are several difficulties to overcome, particularly those associated with the ambient nature of smell. In this article, we present results from an empirical study exploring users' perception of olfaction-enhanced multimedia displays. Findings show that olfaction significantly adds to the user multimedia experience. Moreover, use of olfaction leads to an increased sense of reality and relevance. Our results also show that users are tolerant of the interference and distortion effects caused by olfactory effect in multimedia.