Virtual Taste and Smell Technologies for Multisensory Internet and Virtual Reality

• Main Authors: Cheok, Adrian David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Karunanayaka, Kasun (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series,
• Subjects: User interfaces (Computer systems).; Application software.; Electrical engineering.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Communications Engineering, Networks.

Currently, Internet and virtual reality communication is essentially audio-visual. The next important breakthrough of the Internet will be the communication and sharing of smell and taste experiences digitally. Audio-visual stimuli are frequency based, and they can be easily digitized and actuated....

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Early Research on Digitizing Taste and Smell
• Electric Taste
• Electric Smell
• Thermal Taste
• Taste and Smell Sensations Using Magnetic Stimulation
• Future and Applications of Digital Taste and Smell
• Conculsion
• Epilogue.