The Scent of Collaboration: Exploring the Effect of Smell on Social Interactions

Mehrotra, Siddharth; Brocker, Anke; Obrist, Marianna; Borchers, Jan

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“…Are we seeing a new wave or a winter? More recently, there have been exciting developments framing multisensory interfaces as the future of HCI [21], research on the influence of smell on body image [4] and collaboration [19], work increasing VR realism via the secondary system contributing to smell (the trigeminal nerve) [6], efforts towards digitizing smell sensations [7,26], and new work demonstrating accurate prediction of perceived odor from molecular structure [16]. Additionally, we are in an unprecedented societal shift, now aware of the importance of smell due to the coverage of COVID-19 related smell loss [22,32].…”

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Third Wave or Winter? The Past and Future of Smell in HCI

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Over the last hundred years, the integration of scent in technology could roughly be seen as having two public waves, analogous to virtual reality's three or four. These waves include the cinematic technologies of the 1960s and the rise of olfactory desktop peripherals and home fragrance technologies for the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s. In the last few decades, an impressive, multi-disciplinary effort in Human-Computer Interaction has been made to incorporate smell into interactive systems. This panel asks whether exciting recent developments in smell for Human-Computer Interaction mark the cusp of a third wave and whether the field is here to stay or should prepare for another winter.

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