Paper Info
Title
As Light As Your Scent: Effects Of Smell And Sound On Body Image Perception
Abstract
How people mentally represent their body appearance (i.e., body image perception - BIP) does not always match their actual body. BIP distortions can lead to a detriment in physical and emotional health. Recent works in HCI have shown that technology can be used to change people's BIP through visual, tactile, proprioceptive, and auditory stimulation. This paper investigates, for the first time, the effect of olfactory stimuli, by looking at a possible enhancement of a known auditory effect on BIP. We present two studies building on emerging knowledge in the field of crossmodal correspondences. First, we explored the correspondences between scents and body shapes. Then, we investigated the impact of combined scents and sounds on one's own BIP. Our results show that scent stimuli can be used to make participants feel lighter or heavier (i.e., using lemon or vanilla) and to enhance the effect of sound on perceived body lightness. We discuss how these findings can inform future research and design directions to overcome body misperception and create novel augmented and embodied experiences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-29390-1_10
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION - INTERACT 2019, PT IV
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Body image perception, Smell, Sound, Crossmodal correspondence, Scent, Emotions
Conference
11749
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giada Brianza121.04
Ana Tajadura-Jiménez2978.67
Emanuela Maggioni3155.05
Dario Pittera473.28
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze5123998.61
Marianna Obrist674081.74