A Calibrated Olfactory Display for High Fidelity Virtual Environments
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2016
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Olfactory displays provide a means to reproduce olfactory stimuli for use in virtual environments. Many of the designs produced by researchers, strive to provide stimuli quickly to users and focus on improving usability and portability, yet concentrate less on providing high levels of accuracy to improve the fidelity of odour delivery. This paper provides the guidance to build a reproducible and low cost olfactory display which is able to provide odours to users in a virtual environment at accurate concentration levels that are typical in everyday interactions; this includes ranges of concentration below parts per million and into parts per billion. This paper investigates build concerns of the olfactometer and its proper calibration in order to ensure concentration accuracy of the device. An analysis is provided on the recovery rates of a specific compound after excitation. This analysis provides insight into how this result can be generalisable to the recovery rates of any volatile organic compound, given knowledge of the specific vapour pressure of the compound.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:cgvc.20161305,
booktitle = {Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC)},
editor = {Cagatay Turkay and Tao Ruan Wan},
title = {{A Calibrated Olfactory Display for High Fidelity Virtual Environments}},
author = {Dhokia, Amar and Doukakis, Efstratious and Asadipour, Ali and Harvey, Carlo and Bashford-Rogers, Thomas and Debattista, Kurt and Waterfield, Brian and Chalmers, Alan},
year = {2016},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {-},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-022-2},
DOI = {10.2312/cgvc.20161305}
}