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SmellControl: the study of sense of agency in smell
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posted on 2023-06-10, 01:00 authored by Patricia Cornelio, Emanuela Maggioni, Giada BrianzaGiada Brianza, Sriram Subramanian, Marianna ObristThe Sense of Agency (SoA) is crucial in interaction with technology, it refers to the feeling of 'I did that' as opposed to 'the system did that' supporting a feeling of being in control. Research in human-computer interaction has recently studied agency in visual, auditory and haptic interfaces, however the role of smell on agency remains unknown. Our sense of smell is quite powerful to elicit emotions, memories and awareness of the environment, which has been exploited to enhance user experiences (e.g., in VR and driving scenarios). In light of increased interest in designing multimodal interfaces including smell and its close link with emotions, we investigated, for the first time, the effect of smell-induced emotions on the SoA. We conducted a study using the Intentional Binding (IB) paradigm used to measure SoA while participants were exposed to three scents with different valence (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral). Our results show that participants? SoA increased with a pleasant scent compared to neutral and unpleasant scents. We discuss how our results can inform the design of multimodal and future olfactory interfaces.
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ICMI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal InteractionPublisher
Association for Computing MachineryExternal DOI
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470-480Event name
ICMI '20: International Conference on Multimodal InteractionEvent location
Virtual Event, NetherlandsEvent type
conferenceEvent date
October 25-29, 2020Place of publication
New York, NYISBN
9781450375818Department affiliated with
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2021-09-17First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-09-17Usage metrics
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