Cooking Up an Interactive Olfactory Game Display

User Perception of Media Content Association in Olfaction-Enhanced Multimedia

“…Nonetheless, there has been some olfactory data usage in the computing field over the years, with a number of researchers building their own computer generating smell systems (Boyd et al, 2006;Kaye, 2001) and others relying on the few that are commercially available. More recently, Nakamoto et al (2008) have developed a smell generating device which works by combining chemicals to produce the desired scents as and when required, but this device is also not yet commercially available and still under research development.…”

“…The areas of computing that have experienced significant usage of olfactory data over the years include virtual reality Nakamoto, 2005a,b;Washburn et al, 2003), multimodal displays (Bodnar et al, 2004;Dinh et al, 1999; and alerting systems (Bodnar et al, 2004;Brewster et al, 2006), and media and entertainment systems (Boyd et al, 2006;Fragra, 2003;Mochizuki et al, 2004;Nakamoto et al, 2008). At the forefront are the research efforts of Kaye (2001Kaye ( , 2004, which focused extensively on the practicality of using computer generated smell in computing and creating an awareness of the issues, problems and limitations, associated with the use of olfactory data and particularly for scented media displays.…”

The sweet smell of success

“…To this end, olfactory data may be used to enhance the meaning and provide clarity of user presented information and increase the sense of reality and enjoyment in multimedia applications. Most of the existing work done using olfactory data integrated with other media objects has mostly been done in the virtual reality field (Boyd et al, 2006;Dinh et al, 1999;Drolet et al, 2009;Jones et al, 2004;Kaye 2001;Nakamoto et al, 2008;Richard et al, 2006;Tijou, Richard and Richard, 2006;Washburn and Jones, 2004;Zybura and Eskeland, 1999), and only one of the reported cases shows any significant results to show that adding olfactory data to such systems impacted on the sense of reality of the application quite considerably. For the experiment discussed in this paper, we have implemented a multimedia presentation display tool which combines visual, audio and olfactory data and presents olfaction-enhanced multimedia information content to users.…”

Olfaction-enhanced multimedia: perspectives and challenges

“…More recently, Nakamoto and his team [57 -61] have developed a smell generating device which works by combining chemicals to produce the desired scents as and when required. In the researchers' earlier work, an olfactory display device with 32 odor components using solenoid valves was created [58].…”

“…Similar olfaction-enhanced display systems have also been implemented in [49,50,67]. The former, [49,50], focuses on the technical aspects of olfaction-enhanced displays and proposes to use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to calculate odour distribution and subsequently use an odor blender [58] to generate the odor with the concentration determined by the calculations. In the latter example [67], a simple olfaction-enhanced multimedia display system is implemented, which the researchers' use to investigate the usability and efficiency of their system.…”