Olfactory display using a miniaturized pump and a SAW atomizer for presenting low-volatile scents

Ariyakul, Yossiri; Nakamoto, Takamichi

doi:10.1109/vr.2011.5759464

Cited by 16 publications

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“…While the senses of taste and smell have not received the same amount of research attention as have sight, touch, and audio; a patent granted to Morton Heilig in 1962 describes a mechanical device for creating a VR experience that engaged the senses of sight, sound, touch, and smell [116]. In more recent years, prototype olfactory displays have been developed by Matsukura et al [117] and Ariyakul and Nakamoto [118]. In experiments with olfactory displays, Bordegoni and Carulli showed that an olfactory display could be used to positively improve the level of presence a user in a VR experience perceives [119].…”

Section: Olfactory and Gustatory Displaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of the Capabilities of Current Low-Cost Virtual Reality Technology and Its Potential to Enhance the Design Process

Coburn

Freeman

Salmon

2017

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

127

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In the past few years, there have been some significant advances in consumer virtual reality (VR) devices. Devices such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Leap Motion™ Controller, and Microsoft Kinect® are bringing immersive VR experiences into the homes of consumers with much lower cost and space requirements than previous generations of VR hardware. These new devices are also lowering the barrier to entry for VR engineering applications. Past research has suggested that there are significant opportunities for using VR during design tasks to improve results and reduce development time. This work reviews the latest generation of VR hardware and reviews research studying VR in the design process. Additionally, this work extracts the major themes from the reviews and discusses how the latest technology and research may affect the engineering design process. We conclude that these new devices have the potential to significantly improve portions of the design process.

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Section: Olfactory and Gustatory Displaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of the Capabilities of Current Low-Cost Virtual Reality Technology and Its Potential to Enhance the Design Process

Coburn

Freeman

Salmon

2017

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

127

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“…The authors evaluated the device and, akin to other works, found that a significant elevation in olfactory thresholds exists for patients with neurodegenerative diseases; as such, testing of the olfactory capability can be employed as an approach for early detection. Ariyakul et al [2011Ariyakul et al [ , 2013 proposed an OD based on miniaturized electro-osmotic (EO) pumps and a surface acoustic wave (SAW) device. Minute amounts of liquid perfume are emitted from the EO pumps, vaporized, and are then presented using fans.…”

Section: Ods Placed In the Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Olfaction-Enhanced Multimedia

et al. 2016

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Recently, the concept of olfaction-enhanced multimedia applications has gained traction as a step toward further enhancing user quality of experience. The next generation of rich media services will be immersive and multisensory, with olfaction playing a key role. This survey reviews current olfactory-related research from a number of perspectives. It introduces and explains relevant olfactory psychophysical terminology, knowledge of which is necessary for working with olfaction as a media component. In addition, it reviews and highlights the use of, and potential for, olfaction across a number of application domains, namely health, tourism, education, and training. A taxonomy of research and development of olfactory displays is provided in terms of display type, scent generation mechanism, application area, and strengths/weaknesses. State of the art research works involving olfaction are discussed and associated research challenges are proposed.

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“…Mochizuki et al developed an arm-worn olfactory display that focuses on the human habit of grasping a target object with a visual tag, bringing it up to the nose, and sniffing it [8,9]. also in [10] it uses a micro pump to deliver the scented material onto a SAW (surface acoustic wave) device it has promising results but the hardware setup is not practical and requires voltage levels as high as 100 volts for the driving circuit not to mention a special laboratory environment. Other olfactory displays were presented using inkjet technology using a modified inkjet cartridge to hold the scent data and produce it using different level of intensity achieving high control over the amount and speed but the chemical properties of the scented materials are altered due to heat used to eject the scent as in [11].…”

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Heat Based Odors Delivery Apparatus for Interactive Game Playing

Abid

et al. 2015

IJMUE

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Scent delivery systems or what are known as olfactory displays has been the most recent trend in human computer interaction, control and automation, virtual reality, augmented reality, e-commerce and many other fields in the computer world. These devices have the ability to generate smell combinations for some digital items in the computer virtual world. The idea is to deliver additional perception (olfactory perception) to the user to enrich his/her indulgence while interacting with the computer. The proposed olfactory display is similar to this concept but greatly differ in many aspects, using laser based atomization method to produce enough sudden heat to generate odors that cannot be generated using chemical materials these odors are smoke, gun powder, wood milling, cigarettes smoking, plastic melting and Incense. All olfactory displays researchers avoid involving these types of odors in their studies due to the difficulty of the generation and control of such odors and the absence of their correct and precise generation using chemical materials. The proposed system will provide a way of generating such odors while interactive game is being played by a user with minimum impact on the environment to avoid adaption to the user's olfactory system and polluting the environment that the user occupies.

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Olfactory display using a miniaturized pump and a SAW atomizer for presenting low-volatile scents

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

A Review of the Capabilities of Current Low-Cost Virtual Reality Technology and Its Potential to Enhance the Design Process

A Review of the Capabilities of Current Low-Cost Virtual Reality Technology and Its Potential to Enhance the Design Process

Olfaction-Enhanced Multimedia

Heat Based Odors Delivery Apparatus for Interactive Game Playing

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