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Electrical stimulation of olfactory receptors for digitizing smell

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Surina Hariri,

Nur Ain Mustafa,

Kasun Karunanayaka,

Adrian David CheokAuthors Info & Claims

MVAR '16: Proceedings of the 2016 workshop on Multimodal Virtual and Augmented Reality

Article No.: 4, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/3001959.3001964

Published: 16 November 2016 Publication History

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The digital stimulation of smell is considered as a useful step in expanding the technology related to multisensory communication. Previous methods for activating the sensation of smell chemically, has obvious disadvantages such as being complex, expensive and lower controllability. In this paper, we propose a digital interface for actuating smell sensations. This is done by stimulating the olfactory receptors of the nasal conchae using weak electrical pulses. The sensitivity and effectiveness of electrical stimulation on human smell receptors will be studied by using different current and frequency parameters with real users.

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DOI:10.1145/3001959

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