A Demonstration of Season Traveller

Ranasinghe, Nimesha; Jain, Pravar; Trâm, Nguyễn Thị Ngọc; Tolley, David; Liangkun, Yan; Tung, Chow Eason Wai; Yen, Ching Chiuan; Yi-Luen, Ellen; Koh, Koon Chuan Raymond; Shamaiah, Kala

doi:10.1145/3170427.3186513

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“…Research that has been conducted to date has convincingly shown that presence is dramatically enhanced in environments that are immersive and perceptually salient, where the user is provided with a coherent range of multisensory stimuli [5,6,14,26,27]. This can be explained by the fact that we perceive with all our senses and based on their integration we form a multisensory representation of the world.…”

Section: Presence In Multisensory Setupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When it comes to the incorporation of wind stimuli in multimedia and VR systems, we can mention several attempts to simulate environmental wind conditions such as [13,15,18,19,50] -based on arrays of static fans positioned at different angles in front of the user, in order to simulate wind from different directions -or portable [4,5,17,20,51]. However, most of the authors propose mechanisms to generate airflow without the ability to control its temperature.…”

Section: Thermal and Wind Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, most of the authors propose mechanisms to generate airflow without the ability to control its temperature. Ambiotherm [20] and later Season Traveller [5] provide both wind and thermal feedback to simulate environmental conditions, however the authors use two different sources for this (a temperature module located around the user's neck and a wind simulator focused towards the user's face). This might cause the virtual world to lack coherence and the authors point towards the necessity of integrating these effects within the same source, thus enabling wind of controllable temperatures.…”

Section: Thermal and Wind Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The reproduction of the physical features of external reality is one of the main requirements underlying presence [1] and thus optimises the efficiency and the pleasurability of the user experience. Hence, the simulation of environmental conditions through various sensory combinations has the potential to play a role in determining the presence experience [5,6]. Among the several possibilities of combining sensory effects explored in the literature, we remark that some forms of multisensory stimuli have yet to be thoroughly investigated.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enhancing Multisensory Experiences Through Temperature-Controlled Wind Effects

Saleme

Silveira

Covaci

et al. 2023

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In this paper, we introduce Twirl, a haptic system that allows the creation and delivery of hot and cold airflow synchronised with audiovisual content. Twirl combines vaporization of cooled water by Peltier elements for cold wind and hair dryers for warm wind steered by wind fans. To assess our system, we conducted several studies. First, we analyzed the time our devices take to deliver these effects considering different starting temperatures in the environment. Then, we annotated three videos with hot wind, cold wind, and both effects respectively to observe the feasibility of having those effects integrated with audiovisual content. Next, we assessed the temperature variation of the devices as a function of distance. Finally, we distributed questionnaires such as Virtual Reality Hardware Acceptance Model and Lombard's Temple Presence Inventory questionnaires to assess different user experience facets and attitudes towards the proposed device. Preliminary results highlighted positive user attitudes and experiences towards Twirl.

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Section: Presence In Multisensory Setupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Thermal and Wind Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Thermal and Wind Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Enhancing Multisensory Experiences Through Temperature-Controlled Wind Effects

Saleme

Silveira

Covaci

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Mulsemedia enriches traditional multimedia content with new media objects, which stimulate olfaction, gustation, haptic (touch) and thermoception [15], to name but a subset. It offers new opportunities for immersive technologies and opens new horizons for entertainment [11,43,65,67,74], education, training, and simulation [1,10,12,13,23,54,58,59,62,64,75], culture [8,9], marketing [25,37,57]. Yet, these new sensory media require new technology solutions implemented in both hardware and software [36,49,52,61].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thermal and wind devices for multisensory human-computer interaction: an overview

Silveira

Rodrigues

Saleme

et al. 2023

Multimed Tools Appl

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In order to create immersive experiences in virtual worlds, we need to explore different human senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch). Many different devices have been developed by both industry and academia towards this aim. In this paper, we focus our attention on the researched area of thermal and wind devices to deliver the sensations of heat and cold against people’s skin and their application to human-computer interaction (HCI). First, we present a review of devices and their features that were identified as relevant. Then, we highlight the users’ experience with thermal and wind devices, highlighting limitations either found or inferred by the authors and studies selected for this survey. Accordingly, from the current literature, we can infer that, in wind and temperature-based haptic systems (i) users experience wind effects produced by fans that move air molecules at room temperature, and (ii) there is no integration of thermal components to devices intended for the production of both cold or hot airflows. Subsequently, an analysis of why thermal wind devices have not been devised yet is undertaken, highlighting the challenges of creating such devices.

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Characterizing Emotional Response to Olfactory, Auditory, and Visual Stimulations in a Virtual Reality Environment

Rey

Désoche

Thévenet

et al. 2023

Basic Protocols on Emotions, Senses, and Foods

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Food stimuli are multisensorial: eating potato chips is associated with a particular sound, odor, taste, color, form, texture, etc. The understanding of consumer emotional experience requires the study of each sensory component isolated from each other's or combined, in different contexts and conditions. Virtual reality recent development offered a unique tool allowing the complete and highly controlled study of consumer experience. It bridges the gap between real-life and laboratory investigations by providing rich, complete and adjustable environment that can be combined with the increasing number of methods developed to measure psychological, behavioral and physiological effects of emotion. The protocol presented here was developed to investigate implicit behavioral and physiological emotional responses related to the encountering of emotional olfactory, auditory and visual stimuli in a rich virtual environment. It was developed without any reference to food consumption behavior but can be easily transferable to all kind of stimuli.

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A Demonstration of Season Traveller

Cited by 18 publications

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Enhancing Multisensory Experiences Through Temperature-Controlled Wind Effects

Enhancing Multisensory Experiences Through Temperature-Controlled Wind Effects

Thermal and wind devices for multisensory human-computer interaction: an overview

Characterizing Emotional Response to Olfactory, Auditory, and Visual Stimulations in a Virtual Reality Environment

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