DocumentCode
1976294
Title
"Friend Park"-expression of the wind and the scent on virtual space
Author
Tominaga, Kentaro ; Honda, Shinkuro ; Ohsawa, Takaharu ; Shigeno, Hiroshi ; Okada, Ken-ichi ; Matsushita, Yutaka
Author_Institution
Fac. of Sci. & Technol., Keio Univ., Kanagawa, Japan
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
507
Lastpage
515
Abstract
In this paper, we describe a 3D virtual space system named "Friend Park" that gives users a more definite sense of reality. With this system, users are able to get reality by gaining the information of the smell in the virtual space. Also, the new input method that this system support makes the users sense the reality better. First, we propose the general idea of "Aroma", the area of "Aroma Aura", and the method of transmitting the actual smell from a virtual space to real world. Second, to perform a natural way of input in virtual space, we focused on the action of "blowing". We propose the technique of operating the virtual object by blowing onto the screen and measuring a force of the wind with new device. The system evaluation, which measures whether users can get reality by them, demonstrated that we have gained a better result by supporting olfactory information transmission browning behavior
Keywords
leisure industry; virtual reality; 3D virtual space system; Friend Park; olfactory information transmission browning; scent expression; virtual object; virtual space; wind expression; Computer graphics; Computer interfaces; Force measurement; Force sensors; Gain measurement; Laboratories; Mice; Olfactory; Space technology; Virtual reality;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 2001. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1402-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VSMM.2001.969706
Filename
969706
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