A Preliminary Study of Wearable Olfactory-Thermal Feedback for Immersive VR Cultural Heritage
Hanbing Wang, Xiang Li, Kexin Nie, Yunfeng Shu, Xizi Liu, Xiwen Liu, Yingying Liu, Zhixin Cai, Mingjie Zhou, Xianqi Wang, Li Zhao, Chunling Wu, Lie Zhang · 2026 · Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)
This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract reports a preliminary between-subjects user study (N=52) of NeckScents, a lightweight neck-worn wearable that delivers short, pre-authored pulses of scented warm airflow near the face to augment audiovisual VR. The authors position the work within…
virtual reality · multisensory interaction · olfactory display · thermal feedback · cultural heritage