Ludic odour : designing a digital artefact with smell at bathing for family bonding(本文)
美琪 黎 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2016
Ludic Odour, digital artefact, promotes family bonding between parents and child through creating first encountered experience with smell at family bathing.It brings the value of smell at family bonding into daily bathing through digital olfaction technology.Ludic Odour includes the categories of scents associated with family daily life.It provides a way for parents and child select the scents based on their family routines and preferences.When parents and child uses the soap scrubbing on the body, the bathing artefact soap detects the strength and duration of scrubbing.It sends the signal to the emission device of Ludic Odour through MESH application to trigger corresponding odour emissions.The family can create different olfactory experience at daily bath through different sequence and duration of odour emissions.The proof of concept was conducted at the real family bathing in Macao.Questionnaire, voice recording and contextual inquiry interview were adopted to collect the responses from both parents and child.This dissertation describes the design and the development of Ludic Odour.It contributes in a way to design digital artefact with smell to create first encountered olfactory experience for promoting the family bonding between parents and child at bathing in the digital age.v