Simulating Multisensory Wine Tasting Experience

Carulli, Marina; Bordegoni, Monica; Ferrise, Francesco; Gallace, Alberto; Gustafsson, Maria; Pfuhl, Tobias

doi:10.21278/idc.2018.0485

Cited by 5 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 34 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…For example, VaiR (Rietzler et al, 2017) and Head Mounted Wind (Cardin et al, 2007) are both extending the VR headset with wind and thermal stimuli, while Season Traveler (Ranasinghe et al, 2018) also integrates olfactory stimuli to increase the sense of the presence of users in a multisensory VR experience. While there is a growing interest in exploring the potentials around smell in VR to enrich user experiences with olfactory stimuli (Carulli et al, 2018;Risso et al, 2018;Bordegoni et al, 2019) and in designing wearable olfactory interfaces [e.g., Wang et al (2020), Amores and Maes (2017), and Amores et al (2018)], the study of smell in relation to its spatial features is still limited, [e.g., Maggioni et al (2020), Shaw et al (2019), and Kim and Ando (2010)]. Hence, here we specifically investigated the effect of smell presented under unimodal and multimodal conditions for catching the attention of users during a visual exploration task in VR.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

May I Smell Your Attention: Exploration of Smell and Sound for Visuospatial Attention in Virtual Reality

et al. 2021

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

When interacting with technology, attention is mainly driven by audiovisual and increasingly haptic stimulation. Olfactory stimuli are widely neglected, although the sense of smell influences many of our daily life choices, affects our behavior, and can catch and direct our attention. In this study, we investigated the effect of smell and sound on visuospatial attention in a virtual environment. We implemented the Bells Test, an established neuropsychological test to assess attentional and visuospatial disorders, in virtual reality (VR). We conducted an experiment with 24 participants comparing the performance of users under three experimental conditions (smell, sound, and smell and sound). The results show that multisensory stimuli play a key role in driving the attention of the participants and highlight asymmetries in directing spatial attention. We discuss the relevance of the results within and beyond human-computer interaction (HCI), particularly with regard to the opportunity of using VR for rehabilitation and assessment procedures for patients with spatial attention deficits.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

May I Smell Your Attention: Exploration of Smell and Sound for Visuospatial Attention in Virtual Reality

et al. 2021

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Spence et al (2014) design a more sophisticated scenario for wine tasting to demonstrate how the color of ambient light and background soundtracks influence the perception of wine's taste (e.g., red light underlines sweetness). Others experimented with immersive virtual wine tasting before the COVID-19 crisis, where participants can visit an informative virtual vineyard 6 before sipping from their glasses or immerse themselves in a multisensory wine tasting simulation (Carulli, 2018). These scenarios can inspire future strategies for augmenting the experience of virtual wine tasting by harnessing the mediation of information systems.…”

Section: From Digital Representation Of Wine Tasting To Designing a D...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitalization of multisensory collective activity: The case of virtual wine tasting

Kruse

Drechsler

2022

Journal of Information Technology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Wine tasting is a multisensory collective activity because it involves other senses in addition to sight and hearing. The importance of these multiple senses for wine tasting makes it more challenging to digitalize than other collective activities. We conducted an ethnography and used a semiotic analysis to explore the strategies to digitalize wine tasting sessions. In so doing, we examined how small artisanal winemakers and wine merchants in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland moved their wine tasting sessions online to compensate for their lost key revenue streams during the global Covid-19 crisis. Based on our analysis, we present a typology of virtual wine tasting and illustrate how the approach to digitalize wine tasting evolved from a reactive approach to a more proactive one. We also identify strategies to digitalize wine tasting and characterize its social space. We discuss some avenues to regard virtual wine tasting as something more than just a digital representation of in-person wine tasting session by highlighting the mediating role of an information system. Finally, we propose some implications for digitalizing other multisensory collective activities.

show abstract

“…Various current design methods and tools rely on technologies that enable new opportunities and possibilities in product development. Virtual Reality (VR) technology gains wider adoption at different stages of engineering design and product development (Carulli et al, 2018;Horvat et al, 2019;Gerschütz et al, 2019). Consequently, evolving interaction requirements in design and product development for VR are essential for the adoption, especially in the case of engineering design applications.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Novel Experimental Design of a Real-Time Vr Tracking Device

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Virtual Reality (VR) is progressively adopted at different stages of design and product development. Consequently, evolving interaction requirements in engineering design and development for VR are essential for technology adoption. One of these requirements is real-time positional tracking. This paper aims to present an experimental design of a new real-time positional tracking device (tracker), that is more compact than the existing solution, while addressing factors such as wearability and connectivity. We compare the simulation of the proposed device and the existing solution, discuss the results, and the limitations. The new experimental shape of the device is tailored towards research, allowing the engineering designer to take advantage of a new tracker alternative in new ways, and opens the door to new VR applications in research and product development.

show abstract

Simulating Multisensory Wine Tasting Experience

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

May I Smell Your Attention: Exploration of Smell and Sound for Visuospatial Attention in Virtual Reality

May I Smell Your Attention: Exploration of Smell and Sound for Visuospatial Attention in Virtual Reality

Digitalization of multisensory collective activity: The case of virtual wine tasting

A Novel Experimental Design of a Real-Time Vr Tracking Device

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About