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AromaGen: Interactive Generation of Rich Olfactory Experiences with Multimodal Language Models
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Smell's connections with food, memory, and social experience have motivated researchers to bring olfaction into interactive systems. Multimodal AI opens new possibilities for generating smells from natural language, yet it remains unclear whether pretrained models encode sufficient olfactory knowledge to translate language into perceptible compositions. We present AromaGen, an AI-powered 12-channel wearable olfactory system that maps free-form natural-language descriptions to 12 base odorants selected to cover a semantically derived olfactory space, while supporting iterative refinement through natural-language feedback. In a between-subjects study (N=60) across 50 real-world benchmark smells, participants distinguished AromaGen-generated target smells above chance in a three-alternative forced-choice task, with retrieval-augmented AI composition performing comparably to human-expert composition and zero-shot AI composition. Natural-language feedback significantly improved the perceived similarity of both AI- and human-expert compositions. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of using pretrained multimodal AI, with human aroma composition data, to generate perceptible olfactory experiences from natural language.
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AromaGen: Interactive Generation of Rich Olfactory Experiences with Multimodal Language Models
Smell's connections with food, memory, and social experience have motivated researchers to bring olfaction into interactive systems. Multimodal AI opens new possibilities for generating smells from natural language, yet it remains unclear whether pretrained models encode sufficient olfactory knowledge to translate language into perceptible compositions. We present AromaGen, an AI-powered 12-channel wearable olfactory system that maps free-form natural-language descriptions to 12 base odorants selected to cover a semantically derived olfactory space, while supporting iterative refinement through natural-language feedback. In a between-subjects study (N=60) across 50 real-world benchmark smells, participants distinguished AromaGen-generated target smells above chance in a three-alternative forced-choice task, with retrieval-augmented AI composition performing comparably to human-expert composition and zero-shot AI composition. Natural-language feedback significantly improved the perceived similarity of both AI- and human-expert compositions. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of using pretrained multimodal AI, with human aroma composition data, to generate perceptible olfactory experiences from natural language.
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