A calibrated olfactory display for high fidelity virtual environments

Dhokia, A. and Debattista, K. and Harvey, Carlo and Bashford-Rogers, T. and Chalmers, A. (2016) A calibrated olfactory display for high fidelity virtual environments. In: Proceedings of the conference on Computer Graphics & Visual Computing. Eurographics Association, Aire-la-Ville. ISBN 978-3-03868-022-2

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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.

Item Type:	Book Section
Identification Number:	10.2312/cgvc.20161305
Dates:	Date Event 2016 Published
Subjects:	CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-01 - computer science
Divisions:	Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > College of Computing
Depositing User:	Ian Mcdonald
Date Deposited:	16 Oct 2017 13:45
Last Modified:	22 Mar 2023 12:01
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5235