Abstract
Sensory evaluation has been generally used to assess odors; however, attempts have also been made to evaluate odors based on physiological responses in vivo during olfactory stimulation. In this study, we conducted linear and non-linear analyses of the effects of vanilla odor at different concentrations on an electrogastrogram (EGG), as well as sensory evaluation of the odor. We also investigated the relationship between the concentration of vanilla and changes in the EGG to explore its potential as an odor evaluation method. Heart rate variability analysis was performed during odor presentation—to investigate the effect of olfactory stimulation by vanilla odor on autonomic nerve activity—after which a sensory evaluation was performed to ascertain which characteristics of the presented samples were affected by the increase in the translation error of the EGG during vanilla olfactory stimulation. The translation error itself was estimated using the Wayland algorithm for the EGG during odor presentation. The results showed a significant increase in the translation error in the order of control, low concentration vanilla (LV), and high concentration vanilla (HV), suggesting that the randomness of the EGG increased in proportion to the concentration of the presented sample. Correlation analysis between the translation error and the odor intensity showed that the stronger the odor, the greater the randomness of the EGG. These results suggest that the EGG can be used as an odor evaluation method.
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Takai, E., Aoyagi, T., Ichikawa, K., Matsuura, Y., Kinoshita, F., Takada, H. (2021). Effect of Olfactory Stimulation with Vanilla Odor on Degree of Electrical Activity to Control Gastrointestinal Motility. In: Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Media, Learning and Assistive Environments. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12769. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78095-1_38
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