Mehrotra, S;
Brocker, A;
Obrist, M;
Borchers, J;
(2022)
The Scent of Collaboration: Exploring the Efect of Smell on Social Interactions.
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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings.
(pp. pp. 1-7).
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Abstract
Social interactions are multisensory experiences. However, it is not well understood how technology-mediated smell can support social interactions, especially in collaborative tasks. To explore its effect on collaboration, we asked eleven pairs of users to work together on a writing task while wearing an interactive jewellery designed to emit scent in a controlled fashion. In a within-subjects experiment, participants were asked to collaboratively write a story about a standardized visual stimulus while exposed to with scent and without scent conditions. We analyzed video recordings and written stories using a combination of methods from HCI, psychology, sociology, and human communication research. We observed differences in both participants' communication and creation of insightful stories in the with scent condition. Furthermore, scent helped participants recover from communication breakdown even though they were unaware of it. We discuss the possible implications of our findings and the potential of technology-mediated scent for collaborative activities.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | The Scent of Collaboration: Exploring the Efect of Smell on Social Interactions |
| Event: | CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3491101.3519632 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519632 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International 4.0 License. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149180 |
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