• 센서학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2019

Studies to augment emotion and immersion in multimedia content through olfactory stimulation are being increasingly conducted in the past two decades, and a variety of scent devices have been developed. Most of the scent devices are very large and heavy; consequently, they are installed on a table rather than being attached to the Head-mounted Display (HMD). Even if such devices are mounted on the HMD, it is not possible to control the scent density because of the size limitation, and it is not easy to be immersed in the experience because of the noise caused by the scent device. In order for an actual virtual reality or an augmented reality system to work efficiently with the scent device, three conditions - noiseless, a compact design, and concentration control- must be satisfied. In this study, we design a scent device that satisfies these three conditions. By using a miniature piezoelectric pump, a small size scent device is designed so that it can be easily attached to the lower end of the HMD, and hardly any noise is generated. Moreover, it is possible to control the concentration of the scent by controlling the piezoelectric pump using amplitude and frequency.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.88-96
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to design an authoring tool and a corresponding device for an olfactory display that can augment the immersion and reality in broadcasting services. The developed authoring tool allows an olfactory display to be properly synchronized with the existing video service by applying the standardized format using ISO/IEC 23005 (MPEG-V) and the corresponding developed scent display device. To propose the proper data format for the olfactory display, we have analyzed both the multimodal combination and the cross-modality related to the olfactory display. From the results of the analysis, we derived a set of olfactory parameters for the olfactory display that are related to emotion. The analyzed parameters related to emotion in an olfactory display are synchronization, scent intensity, scent persistence, and hedonic tone. These parameters should be controlled so that the olfactory display can be in harmony with the existing media to augment emotion. In addition, we developed a scent display device that can generate many kinds of scents and that satisfies design conditions for olfactory parameters that are for use with broadcasting services.

• 센서학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.406-411
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• 2016

The application of visual and auditory senses into virtual reality is easily taken for granted, but the sense of smell has been largely ignored. But many researches have shown that olfactory stimulation in virtual environments can increase the immersion and reality. In practical virtual reality, the use of scents is not always able to increase the immersion and reality. An ill-matched scent can decrease the reality. To solve this problem, we developed scent devices that can adjustable scents and scent intensity in order to display a well-matched scents in virtual reality. And we propose simple and practical way to program specific location to display scents and developed API function to control a developed scent device at virtual reality software.

• 센서학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.412-417
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• 2016

Scent display is used mainly to augment immersion, reality and emotion, besides provide more tension and suggestion. However, this paper pay attention to effect of smells as ambient media, and propose a notification service using scents without sound and vibration when a user has new mail, test message and phone call. And we designed a scent service platform and API function for easy application of scent notification service. We demonstrated feasibility by experiment using smart phone and self-producted scent device.

• 센서학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.399-405
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• 2016

Scent diffuser using micro-pore piezo actuator achieved a commercial success because of its cheap production cost, but it is easy to be use for IT-based contents due to difficulty of scent intensity control. To solve this problem, we control the emission amount of scent diffuser by changing amplitude and frequency of input voltage applied to micro-pore piezo actuator. And, we analyzed the effect of density of cotton core on emission amount and a relationship between hole-size of mesh in piezo actuator and viscosity of scents to design a mechanically optimal scent device.

• 센서학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.414-420
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• 2018

To augment emotion and immersion in virtual reality (VR), technological research based on scent displays have increased in recent years. The results of extensive studies have enabled the development of methods to interface head mounted displays (HMDs) with scent devices, and the possibility of VR applications of this development was identified via several demonstrations in actual VR environments. Despite all these efforts, more practical methods and conditions for scent display in VR environments are yet to be developed. To efficiently interface VR and scent, this study proposes three ways to set the position for scent display and scent conditions. The first is scent display using local positioning in the VR engine, the second is scent display using the relative distance and orientation between user and object in VR environments, and the third is scent display using time setting. In this study, we developed scent devices using a piezo actuator to validate the proposed method and successfully conducted demonstrations and experiments.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2024

본 연구는 산림치유를 위해 가상현실 시스템을 적용하여 멀미를 줄이고, 몰입감을 높이기 위해 다감각 요소를 사용하였다. 가상현실 시스템을 적용하는 데 있어 멀미를 줄이는 수단으로 다감각적 요소를 사용하면서 더욱 몰입감 있는 경험을 제공하려 한다. 이를 위해 바람과 향기를 이용한 촉각과 후각 장치를 개발하여 사용하였다. Unity3D의 HDRP(High Definition Render Pipeline)을 사용하여 프로그램을 개발했고, HMD(Head Mounted Display)시스템과 non-HMD(non-Head Mounted Display)시스템을 구축하여 시각적 움직임으로 멀미를 유발하는지 확인하였다. 향기를 맡을 수 있게 후각 장치와 바람을 맞는 듯한 촉각을 주기 위해 에어서큘레이터(Air circulator)를 배치하였고 이를 통해 후각과 촉각이 가상현실 산림치유 시스템에 대한 만족도에 영향을 끼치는지 확인하기 위해 실험을 설계하였다. 실험결과 촉각 장치는 멀미를 줄이는 것에 유의미한 결과를 얻었으나, 개발된 후각 장치가 피험자에게 멀미를 줄이는 것에 대한 유의미한 결과를 얻지 못하였다.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.113-116
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• 2020

본 논문은 360도 동영상과 감각효과(Sensorial Effects)가 피실험자의 몰입도, 만족도, 실재감에 미치는 영향을 측정하기 위한 사용자 경험(Quality of Experience: QoE) 평가 실험 방법을 제안한다. 피실험자는 발향장치가 부착된 헤드 마운티드 디스플레이(Head Mounted Display: HMD)를 착용한 상태에서 감각효과가 동반된 360도 동영상을 경험한 후, 몰입도, 만족도, 실재감에 대한 설문에 응답한다. 응답 분석 결과 제안된 실험방법이 360도 VR 동영상과 감각효과에 대한 피실험자의 몰입도, 만족도, 실재감 등을 측정하기에 적합한 실험 방법임을 확인하였다. 반면, 360도 동영상을 시청하는 도중 비교 실험을 위한 회색 화면을 삽입하게 되면 몰입도와 실재감에 상당한 저하를 일으키는 것으로 파악되었다.