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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. Electric Taste

Authors : Adrian David Cheok, Kasun Karunanayaka

Published in: Virtual Taste and Smell Technologies for Multisensory Internet and Virtual Reality

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

To pursue the next stage of the internet, humans should not only communicate emotions with visual, audio, and tactile stimuli but also with taste (gustation). Humans will want to share these stimuli collectively as an experience digitally, like they currently do with the visual and audio media on the internet. We want to propose the idea of gustation creating and experiencing digital representation of taste sensation. However, a new methodology is first needed to digitally stimulate the sense of taste to enable internet communication of the sense. We propose an electrical tongue stimulation device, which the user places in their mouth to produce taste sensations. This technique operates by inducing weak electric signals by changing frequency and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) produced by the circuitry. Several experiments were carried out to evaluate this approach of digitizing taste sensations. Results from experiments show a new user experience through digital taste stimuli.

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Metadata
Title
Electric Taste
Authors
Adrian David Cheok
Kasun Karunanayaka
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Virtual Taste and Smell Technologies for Multisensory Internet and Virtual Reality

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-73863-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-73864-2

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73864-2_4