What is it about?
Multisensory effects devices have been increasingly developed by research groups and companies with the aim of creating more immersive experiences for users by generating tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sensations. These technologies have been applied to areas such as entertainment, healthcare, education, culture, and marketing. This article brings recent efforts of haptic, olfactory, and gustatory displays integrated for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Additionally, it gets down to the nitty-gritty of how to create a multisensory environment for a desktop and a 360° VR application and evaluate it from the users' viewpoint.
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Why is it important?
Our survey shows that multisensory displays are quite heterogeneous and highlights many opportunities for research including standardization, lack of proper software, usability of displays, and the need to develop gustatory displays that take into account not only the tongue, but also the whole gustatory system that comprises vision, smell, and trigeminal nerve stimulation.
Perspectives
This article was an extensive research on different types of multisensory displays which led my team to choose the appropriate devices for our further multisensory experiments and to develop our bespoke olfactory display which others had not developed by that time. We hope this article paves a similar path for other researchers doing multisensory experiments in digital settings and draws their attention to the need for new displays to be developed mainly gustatory ones.
Dr. Estêvão B. Saleme
Federal Data Processing Service
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This page is a summary of: Mulsemedia DIY: A Survey of Devices and a Tutorial for Building Your Own Mulsemedia Environment, ACM Computing Surveys, July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3319853.
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