What is it about?
We designed an open-source olfactory interaction DIY toolkit – O&O (abbreviation of Open-source & Olfaction), to empower individuals with no related research background to design and prototype interactive olfactory interfaces with enhanced accessibility, mobility, and design guidance.
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Why is it important?
While advances in interactive technologies have shown promise in vision, audio, and tactile interactions, the use of smell is under-explored. Scent is an invisible, lingering, and pervasive medium that is hard to prototype. Constructing olfactory interfaces on demand requires significant design proficiency and engineering effort. The absence of powerful and convenient tools (especially on the hardware side) that reduce design and technical complexity posed obstacles for future research in the area.
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This page is a summary of: O&O: A DIY toolkit for designing and rapid prototyping olfactory interfaces, April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3502033.
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