Research on exploratory and searching behavior of animals and robots has attracted an increasing amount of interest recently. Existing works have focused mostly on exploratory behavior guided by vision and audition. On the other hand, research on smell-guided exploration has been lacking, even though animals may use the sense of smell more widely than sight or hearing to search for food and to ...

We expose a case study of a bad smell detection through metrics. In practice, bad smell detection emerges from human observations. Metrics allow to obtain an objective view of the software, so they must be used as instruments to detect bad smells. Concretely, we focus in the bad smell: Parallel Inheritance Hierarchy, using a metric subset. Although it is not a serious bad smell, however its det...

Complaints of taste and smell dysfunction unaccompanied by symptoms of neurological or nasal problems are not uncommon. However, "I can't taste" is not necessarily an accurate symptom description. Complaints tend to reflect the common confusion between taste sensations (that is, salt, sour, sweet, bitter) and flavor sensations (including taste, smell, temperature, and texture). A number of ques...

This electronic document gives the study of a bidirectional model, of smell as a media and it‟s applications in the real world. This paper presents a prototype system, which uses smell as a medium to communicate information bi-directionally in the computer environment. The paper also emphasizes the possibility that apart from video and audio, smell can also become a strong medium for exchanging...

Seirogan, a wood creosote, has been used as an antidiarrhetic drug in Asian countries including Japan for many years. This antidiarrhetic has recently been used as a sugar-coated pill because Seirogan has a strong smell. The strong smell of the uncoated form of Seirogan may modulate the defense systems of animals because the sense of smell is important for the detection of toxic metabolites in ...