An Exploration of Form Factors for Sleep-Olfactory Interfaces
Releasing scent during sleep has been shown to influence the emotional valence of dreams, reduce cigarette smoking behavior, strengthen memories as well as enhance restorative slow-wave activity. Nevertheless, current scent technologies used in sleep laboratories are not portable and require the use...
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| author | Amores Fernandez, Judith Dotan, Mae Maes, Patricia |
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| description | Releasing scent during sleep has been shown to influence the emotional valence of dreams, reduce cigarette smoking behavior, strengthen memories as well as enhance restorative slow-wave activity. Nevertheless, current scent technologies used in sleep laboratories are not portable and require the use of nasal masks and large olfactometers. In this paper we investigated the preferred form factor and acceptance of a set of biometric wearables that can release scent based on the user's physiological state. We conducted an online survey with 163 participants and evaluated 8 different form factors. The results showed that 73.5% of the subjects preferred the designs that are not wearable during the night but that can be worn during the day. We provide insights to take into account for the design of next generation sleep-olfactory technologies. We provide a literature review of sleep and scent studies and discuss the opportunities for well-being and memory applications. Keyword: Olfactory; Human computer interaction; Prototypes; Sensors; Sleep apnea |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1238472022-10-02T00:14:42Z An Exploration of Form Factors for Sleep-Olfactory Interfaces Amores Fernandez, Judith Dotan, Mae Maes, Patricia Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Releasing scent during sleep has been shown to influence the emotional valence of dreams, reduce cigarette smoking behavior, strengthen memories as well as enhance restorative slow-wave activity. Nevertheless, current scent technologies used in sleep laboratories are not portable and require the use of nasal masks and large olfactometers. In this paper we investigated the preferred form factor and acceptance of a set of biometric wearables that can release scent based on the user's physiological state. We conducted an online survey with 163 participants and evaluated 8 different form factors. The results showed that 73.5% of the subjects preferred the designs that are not wearable during the night but that can be worn during the day. We provide insights to take into account for the design of next generation sleep-olfactory technologies. We provide a literature review of sleep and scent studies and discuss the opportunities for well-being and memory applications. Keyword: Olfactory; Human computer interaction; Prototypes; Sensors; Sleep apnea 2020-02-24T15:50:28Z 2020-02-24T15:50:28Z 2019-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781538613115 1558-4615 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123847 Amores, Judith, Mae Dotan, and Pattie Maes. "An Exploration of Form Factors for Sleep-Olfactory Interfaces." 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), July 2019, Berlin, Germany, IEEE, 2019. © 2019 by IEEE http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/embc.2019.8856805 Proceedings of the 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf IEEE Prof. Maes via Elizabeth Soergel |
| spellingShingle | Amores Fernandez, Judith Dotan, Mae Maes, Patricia An Exploration of Form Factors for Sleep-Olfactory Interfaces |
| title | An Exploration of Form Factors for Sleep-Olfactory Interfaces |
| title_full | An Exploration of Form Factors for Sleep-Olfactory Interfaces |
| title_fullStr | An Exploration of Form Factors for Sleep-Olfactory Interfaces |
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| title_short | An Exploration of Form Factors for Sleep-Olfactory Interfaces |
| title_sort | exploration of form factors for sleep olfactory interfaces |
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