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Sniff Before You Act: Exploration of Scent-Feature Associations for Designing Future Interactions

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It has long been known that our sense of smell is a powerful one that affects emotions and behaviors. Recently, interest in the sense of smell has been growing exponentially in HCI. However, the potential of smell to inspire design is still underexplored. In this paper, we first investigated crossmodal correspondences between scents and selected features relevant for design (clustered in sensory, bodily, and qualitative features). Then, we created a set of cards (EssCards) to visually summarize the key findings to inspire designers. We carried out two preliminary design exploration sessions using the EssCards. Based on our findings, we discuss how to inspire and challenge design opportunities around the sense of smell and reflect upon applications for smell as inspirational material for designing future interactions and experiences.

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This work was supported by the European Research Council - ERC (grant number 638605). We would like to thank the participants and designers who took part in our research. Special thanks go to Dr Emeline Brule and Jesse Jesse Benjamin for providing valuable feedback on early drafts of our paper, and Rhiannon Armitage for the voice-over on our video.

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Brianza, G., Cornelio, P., Maggioni, E., Obrist, M. (2021). Sniff Before You Act: Exploration of Scent-Feature Associations for Designing Future Interactions. In: Ardito, C., et al. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021. INTERACT 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12933. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85616-8_17

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