QoS impact on user perception and understanding of multimedia video clips
MULTIMEDIA '98 Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Multimedia, network protocols and users—bridging the gap
MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 1)
VR '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality
AROMA: ambient awareness through olfaction in a messaging application
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
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Computing in Science and Engineering
Olfoto: designing a smell-based interaction
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Fragra: a visual-olfactory VR game
SIGGRAPH '04 ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Sketches
Cooking Up an Interactive Olfactory Game Display
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
The sweet smell of success: Enhancing multimedia applications with olfaction
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
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Enhancing multimedia applications with olfactory sensations is one of the last challenges in the area. While there is evidence, both scientific and anecdotal, that olfactory cues help users in information recall tasks, there is a lack of work when the targeted information is one contained in a multimedia presentation, which is precisely the focus of this article. Accordingly, we present the results of two experimental studies. The first study measured the impact of olfactory media variation on the user's ability to perceive, synthesize, and analyze the informational content of olfactory-enhanced multimedia videos; the second study measured the impact of information content, and an information recall task in respect of user perception of the relevance, sense of reality, and acceptability of the olfactory media content, as well as the overall enjoyment of the experience. Results show that the use of olfactory media content, both pleasant and unpleasant, in multimedia displays does not significantly impact on information assimilation in a negative way. Moreover, the addition of a performance task may enhance the user's understanding of the correlation between the characteristic odor(s) and the scenario under consideration, as well as enable users to consciously learn the odors.