Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance
The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We present Essence, the first olfactory computational necklace that can be remotely controlled through a smartphone and can vary the intensity and frequency of the r...
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| author | Amores Fernandez, Judith Maes, Patricia |
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| description | The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We present Essence, the first olfactory computational necklace that can be remotely controlled through a smartphone and can vary the intensity and frequency of the released scent based on biometric or contextual data. This paper discusses the role of smell in designing pervasive systems that affect one's mood and cognitive performance while being asleep or awake. We present a set of applications for this type of technology as well as the implementation of the olfactory display and the supporting software. We also discuss the results of an initial test of the prototype that show the robustness and usability of Essence while wearing it for long periods of time in multiple environments. Keyword: Olfactory Interfaces; Wearable Computers; Behavior Change; Unconscious; Pervasive; Prototyping/Implementation; Fabrication; Fashion/Clothing; Health - Wellbeing; Smell |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1238462022-09-28T11:48:31Z Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance Amores Fernandez, Judith Maes, Patricia Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We present Essence, the first olfactory computational necklace that can be remotely controlled through a smartphone and can vary the intensity and frequency of the released scent based on biometric or contextual data. This paper discusses the role of smell in designing pervasive systems that affect one's mood and cognitive performance while being asleep or awake. We present a set of applications for this type of technology as well as the implementation of the olfactory display and the supporting software. We also discuss the results of an initial test of the prototype that show the robustness and usability of Essence while wearing it for long periods of time in multiple environments. Keyword: Olfactory Interfaces; Wearable Computers; Behavior Change; Unconscious; Pervasive; Prototyping/Implementation; Fabrication; Fashion/Clothing; Health - Wellbeing; Smell 2020-02-24T15:40:08Z 2020-02-24T15:40:08Z 2017-05 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450346559 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123846 Amores, Judith and Pattie Maes. "Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance." CHI Conferences on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, May 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026004 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conferences on Human Factors in Computing Systems Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf ACM Press Prof. Maes via Elizabeth Soergel |
| spellingShingle | Amores Fernandez, Judith Maes, Patricia Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance |
| title | Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance |
| title_full | Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance |
| title_fullStr | Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance |
| title_short | Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance |
| title_sort | essence olfactory interfaces for unconscious influence of mood and cognitive performance |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123846 |
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