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SensaBubble: a chrono-sensory mid-air display of sight and smell

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posted on 2023-06-09, 19:19 authored by Sue Ann Seah, Diego Martinez Plasencia, Peter D. Bennett, Abhijit Karnik, Vlad Stefan Otrocol, Jarrod Knibbe, Andy Cockburn, Sriram Subramanian
We present SensaBubble, a chrono-sensory mid-air display system that generates scented bubbles to deliver information to the user via a number of sensory modalities. The system reliably produces single bubbles of specific sizes along a directed path. Each bubble produced by SensaBubble is filled with fog containing a scent relevant to the notification. The chrono-sensory aspect of SensaBubble means that information is presented both temporally and multimodally. Temporal information is enabled through two forms of persistence: firstly, a visual display projected onto the bubble which only endures until it bursts; secondly, a scent released upon the bursting of the bubble slowly disperses and leaves a longer-lasting perceptible trace of the event. We report details of SensaBubble’s design and implementation, as well as results of technical and user evaluations. We then discuss and demonstrate how SensaBubble can be adapted for use in a wide range of application contexts – from an ambient peripheral display for persistent alerts, to an engaging display for gaming or education.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14).

Publisher

ACM, New York, NY, USA

Page range

2863-2872

Event name

SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Event location

Toronto

Event type

conference

Event date

26th April - 1st May 2014

Book title

Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14

Place of publication

Toronto

ISBN

978-1-4503-2473-1

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  • Informatics Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Centre for Computer Graphics Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-10-11

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-10-11

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-10-10

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