Abstract
Smell dances at the edges of recognisability. Hidden from view behind other sensory tones, olfactory undercurrents, crucial to orientation and navigation, rouse the antennae across species. The rise of immersive digital art venues usher in audiences who value ephemeral encounters of intensity augmented by scent.
Sensing systems for olfactory input/output display continue to evolve a vibrant field. Consumer digital technologies' affordability, size and power drive software and hardware innovation: scent teleportation, ambient scent marketing, e-noses, wearables, therapeutic devices, and cultural events. Correspondingly, odour plume visualisation and precise temporal resolution in robotics response (1). Despite these advances, dynamic scent display remains an underdeveloped channel. This situation makes spatial design challenging, especially when odour localisation, visualisation and digitisation are nascent (2). The objective is to create mobile robotics for performance spaces.
We present an olfactory wearable innovation that senses wearer biosignals, visualising data through wireless scent display (3). To validate the wearable, we tested usability in-performance in several venues. The findings suggest this approach provides an avenue to understand olfactory-somatic interaction challenges. Moreover, testing wearables in-performance maps dynamic materialities and architectures, systems benefit from biosignal input and olfactory output balance. Although frontier science was not the primary focus, multidisciplinary resources are essential for developers collaborating to expand mobile robotics for multisensory environments.
Supported by the MRC grant 2014217 NeuroNex: From Odor to Action - Discovering Principles of Olfactory-Guided Natural Behavior, and work completed thanks to the Australian Government Research Training Program.
References:
1. Dennler, N. et al. (2024). High-speed odor sensing using miniaturized electronic nose. Sci. Adv. 10, eadp1764.
2. Bahremand, A., Manetta, M., Lai, J., Lahey, B., Spackman, C., Smith, B. H., Gerkin, R. C., and LiKamWa, R. (2022). The Smell Engine: A system for artificial odor synthesis in virtual environments. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 241–249.
3. McMillan, C. (2020). Aura:maton: A Wearable Olfactory Display for Immersive Scentscapes. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 677–682.
Sensing systems for olfactory input/output display continue to evolve a vibrant field. Consumer digital technologies' affordability, size and power drive software and hardware innovation: scent teleportation, ambient scent marketing, e-noses, wearables, therapeutic devices, and cultural events. Correspondingly, odour plume visualisation and precise temporal resolution in robotics response (1). Despite these advances, dynamic scent display remains an underdeveloped channel. This situation makes spatial design challenging, especially when odour localisation, visualisation and digitisation are nascent (2). The objective is to create mobile robotics for performance spaces.
We present an olfactory wearable innovation that senses wearer biosignals, visualising data through wireless scent display (3). To validate the wearable, we tested usability in-performance in several venues. The findings suggest this approach provides an avenue to understand olfactory-somatic interaction challenges. Moreover, testing wearables in-performance maps dynamic materialities and architectures, systems benefit from biosignal input and olfactory output balance. Although frontier science was not the primary focus, multidisciplinary resources are essential for developers collaborating to expand mobile robotics for multisensory environments.
Supported by the MRC grant 2014217 NeuroNex: From Odor to Action - Discovering Principles of Olfactory-Guided Natural Behavior, and work completed thanks to the Australian Government Research Training Program.
References:
1. Dennler, N. et al. (2024). High-speed odor sensing using miniaturized electronic nose. Sci. Adv. 10, eadp1764.
2. Bahremand, A., Manetta, M., Lai, J., Lahey, B., Spackman, C., Smith, B. H., Gerkin, R. C., and LiKamWa, R. (2022). The Smell Engine: A system for artificial odor synthesis in virtual environments. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 241–249.
3. McMillan, C. (2020). Aura:maton: A Wearable Olfactory Display for Immersive Scentscapes. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 677–682.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 8 Dec 2024 |
| Event | 8th Annual Meeting of the Digital Olfaction Society - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 5 Dec 2024 → 6 Dec 2024 Conference number: 8 https://digital-olfaction.com/ |
Conference
| Conference | 8th Annual Meeting of the Digital Olfaction Society |
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| Abbreviated title | DOS Annual Meeting |
| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Tokyo |
| Period | 5/12/24 → 6/12/24 |
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