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The sweet smell of success: Enhancing multimedia applications with olfaction

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Olfaction, or smell, is one of the last challenges which multimedia applications have to conquer. As far as computerized smell is concerned, there are several difficulties to overcome, particularly those associated with the ambient nature of smell. In this article, we present results from an empirical study exploring users' perception of olfaction-enhanced multimedia displays. Findings show that olfaction significantly adds to the user multimedia experience. Moreover, use of olfaction leads to an increased sense of reality and relevance. Our results also show that users are tolerant of the interference and distortion effects caused by olfactory effect in multimedia.

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          cover image ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
          ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications  Volume 8, Issue 1
          January 2012
          149 pages
          ISSN:1551-6857
          EISSN:1551-6865
          DOI:10.1145/2071396
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          • Published: 3 February 2012
          • Accepted: 1 May 2010
          • Revised: 1 February 2010
          • Received: 1 January 2009
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