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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

University of Birmingham : A - Electronic, Electrical and computer engineering

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Article title

Virtual Restorative Environments: Preliminary Studies in Scene, Sound and Smell

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.4018/jgcms.2012070106

Title of journal

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

ISSN of journal

1942-3888

Year of publication

2012

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Additional information

This paper presents, for the first time, results using a unique olfactory display system, within virtual environments (VEs), designed for physical and psychological rehabilitation of hospitalised patients. The novel aspects include the creation of a unique multisensory coastal VE and the use of electrodermal input and heart rate activity to identify, objectively, participants’ odour detections and the influence of simulated natural sounds at specific spatial locations within that VE. Supported by the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, this research has influenced the design of early systems deployed in the Military Recovery and Intensive Care Units at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

B - Human Computer Interaction

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract