The Odor Characterizations and Interactive Olfactory Display: A Survey

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Lorenzo Micaroni ◽

Marina Carulli ◽

Francesco Ferrise ◽

Monica Bordegoni ◽

Alberto Gallace

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Low Cost ◽

Olfactory Cues ◽

Input Device ◽

Experimental Setup ◽

Initial Testing ◽

Head Mounted Display ◽

Innovative System ◽

The One ◽

Olfactory Display

This research aims to design and develop an innovative system, based on an olfactory display, to be used for investigating the directionality of the sense of olfaction. In particular, the design of an experimental setup to understand and determine to what extent the sense of olfaction is directional and whether there is prevalence of the sense of vision over the one of smell when determining the direction of an odor, is described. The experimental setup is based on low cost Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. In particular, the system is based on a custom directional olfactory display, an Oculus Rift Head Mounted Display (HMD) to deliver both visual and olfactory cues and an input device to register subjects’ answers. The VR environment is developed in Unity3D. The paper describes the design of the olfactory interface as well as its integration with the overall system. Finally the results of the initial testing are reported in the paper.

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Development of aroma-Card based soundless Olfactory Display

2009 16th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems - (ICECS 2009) ◽

10.1109/icecs.2009.5410784 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Dong Wook Kim ◽

Yeong Hee Cho ◽

Kazushi Nishimoto ◽

Yusuke Kawakami ◽

Susumu Kunifuji ◽

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Keyword(s):

Olfactory Display

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Virtual vision system with actual flavor by olfactory display

10.1117/12.869781 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kunio Sakamoto ◽

Fumihiro Kanazawa

Keyword(s):

Vision System ◽

Olfactory Display

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Demo of olfactory display with less residual odor

SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Emerging Technologies on - SA '18 ◽

10.1145/3275476.3275493 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Shingo Kato ◽

Takamichi Nakamoto

Keyword(s):

Olfactory Display

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Development of a Heat-Driven-Type MEMS Olfactory Display

Proceedings ◽

10.3390/proceedings2130839 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (13) ◽

pp. 839

Author(s):

Hiroki Ishizuka ◽

Kenta Kashiwagi ◽

Kyohei Terao ◽

Hidekuni Takao ◽

Fusao Shimokawa

Keyword(s):

Diffusion Experiment ◽

Information Communication ◽

Microelectromechanical System ◽

Large Size ◽

Multimodal Information ◽

Other Information ◽

Close Time ◽

Driving Conditions ◽

Olfactory Display

An olfactory display is necessary for effective multimodal information communication. The relatively large size of current olfactory displays does not support integration with other information devices. Thus, in this study, a heat-driven-type microelectromechanical system (MEMS) olfactory display that is only a few square centimeters in size and, thus, suitable for integration, is proposed. The olfactory display was fabricated by implementing a microfabrication process, and the fundamental driving conditions for the heater and valve were confirmed. Furthermore, a perfume diffusion experiment was conducted to characterize the olfactory display. The diffusion of the perfume was successfully synchronized with the open/close time of the valve.

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