Scentgraphy
Scent Informatization
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The interactive installation of “Scentgraphy”, which could compute, interpret, simulate and store scents be- hind scenes. It acts like an original camera or gramophone to capture and save pictorial memories. It not only enriches the interactive experiences, but also establishes a closer relationship with the combination of smell, vision and emo- tion. Meanwhile, scentagraphy also provide an interesting interaction conducive for immersive experience of breathing aromatherapy. This project explores new experiences about the senses, sensory boundaries, storing and reproducing of the sense of smell. Based on ancient perfumery techniques, a closer bond is developed between memory and sense of smell. Scentgraphy project explored a way for computing, simulation, and telecommunication of odors by visual and olfactory conversion. This is a preliminary exploration on olfactory informa- tionization, and this research ensures that the feasibility of converting visual and olfactory and digital odors can be spread and applied in media and informa- tion technology.
Scentgraphy acts like an original gramophone to capture and save memories for us. It can generalize the scent of specific paintings, the one of a landscape, and even the one of a photograph. A closer relationship can be established between color and smell by simply breathing in the reproduced scents behind each captured scenario. The goal of Scentgraphy is to bring users unique breathing experience. A scene can be pixelated and later calculated to better unveil the relationship between color and scent to help embody the underneath emotion based on the image recognition technology. Olfactory information can be counted as a kind of sensory data. In the future, such data can be applied to immersive entertainment, multimedia handheld devices, and even medical and beauty industries. The research team truly believes that the future sensory design will permeate into all aspects of life. In addition to obtaining more accurate scent data, the team of Scentgraphy needs to explore deeper to better under- stand the mechanism for scents to affect the user's emotions, emotions, and memories. This research will make the media and information technology spread in a more effec- tive way. Making the current device more applicable to immersive entertainment, multimedia handheld devices, and even medical and beauty industries. There is reason to believe that in the near future, this set of sensory input objects will get deep into all aspects of daily life, rather than just stay in the current visual and auditory. In addition to requiring more accurate odor information, the developing team also needs to ex- plore upon the mechanism that how the odor affects the user's emotions, emotions, and memories more than they are now. Scentgraphy serves as the touchstone of the digitization of scents. In the short future, scents can not only be calculate, saved and reproduced, but also can be remotely shared. Controlling people’s emotional well- being through nostalgic odors by using certain functional products through odor memory, smell and scent will be applied across the world like any other physical products that have already been widely accepted.