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Smell-O-Message: integration of olfactory notifications into a messaging application to improve users' performance
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posted on 2023-06-09, 14:52 authored by Emanuela Maggioni, Robert Cobden, Dmitrijs DmitrenkoDmitrijs Dmitrenko, Marianna ObristSmell is a powerful tool for conveying and recalling information without requiring visual attention. Previous work identified, however, some challenges caused by user's unfamiliarity with this modality and complexity in the scent delivery. We are now able to overcome these challenges, introducing a training approach to familiarize scent-meaning associations (urgency of a message, and sender identity) and using a controllable device for the scent-delivery. Here we re-validate the effectiveness of smell as notification modality and present findings on the performance of smell in conveying information. In a user study composed of two sessions we compared the effectiveness of visual, olfactory, and combined visual-olfactory notifications in a messaging application. We demonstrated that olfactory notifications improve users' confidence and performance in identifying the urgency level of a message, with the same reaction time and disruption levels as for visual notifications. We discuss the design implications and opportunities for future work in the domain of multimodal interactions.
Funding
SenseX - Sensory Experiences for Interactive Technologies; G1589; EUROPEAN UNION; H2020-ERC-2014-STG-638605
OWidgets - Design of a new non-existing layer of information delivery through smell; G2057; EUROPEAN UNION; 737576
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- Published
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- Accepted version
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ICMI '18: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal InteractionPublisher
Association for Computing MachineryExternal DOI
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45-54Event name
20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal InteractionEvent location
Boulder, CO, USAEvent type
conferenceEvent date
October 16-20th, 2018Place of publication
New York, NY, United StatesISBN
9781450356923Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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- Creative Technology Publications
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2018-08-30First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-11-15First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-08-30Usage metrics
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