Mulsemedia: multiple sensorial media - towards understanding user and quality of experience of future media applications

Recently, there has been an emerging interest and research activity in in sensory technologies that stimulate all of the human senses vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Critical to the success of such experiences is to understand how users perceive these 'new' enhanced multimedia experiences. Only by addressing this challenge systematically from technical and perceptual perspectives, can we meaningfully design multi-sensory multimedia experiences. In this talk, we provide an introduction to state of the art in Mulsemedia quality of experience (QoE) and user experience (Ux) research which considers different evaluation methodologies and approaches. The talk will also provide some discussion on the research carried by us through developing our own prototypes and executing user trials related to tactile, olfactory enhanced audio-visual experiences.