Paper Info
Title
An unencumbering, localized olfactory display
Abstract
Olfaction is considered to be an important sensory modality in next-generation virtual reality (VR) systems. We currently focus on spatiotemporal control of odor, rather than capturing and synthesizing odor itself. If we simply diffused the odor into the atmosphere, it would be difficult to clean it away in a short time. Several olfactory displays that inject the scented air under the nose through tubes have been proposed to realize spatiotemporal control of olfaction, but they require the user to wear something on one's face. Here, we propose an unencumbering olfactory display, by conveying a clump of scented air from a certain remote place to the user's nose. To implement this concept, we used an "air cannon" that generates toroidal vortices of the scented air. We conducted a preliminary experiment to examine the possibility of this method's ability to display scent to a restricted space. The result shows that we could successfully display incense to the target user.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1145/765891.766109
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
target user,olfactory display,important sensory modality,scented air,localized olfactory display,unencumbering olfactory display,synthesizing odor,spatiotemporal control,certain remote place,next-generation virtual reality,air cannon,virtual reality
Computer vision,Olfaction,Virtual reality,Odor,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Stimulus modality
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-637-4
20
5.11
References 
Authors
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yasuyuki Yanagida134860.01
Haruo Noma234163.10
Nobuji Tetsutani334451.54
Akira Tomono413328.37