This essay considers naturalist and neonaturalist deployments of smell as a means of mapping uneven and potentially toxic atmospheres in the contexts of Progressive Era urbanization and twentieth-century environmental “slow violence.” After showing how the description of noxious “smellscapes” structures Norris’s Vandover and the Brute (1914), I move on to consider the use of smell in key scenes...

In this paper, we handle a remote ikebana (i.e., flower arrangement) system with olfactory and haptic media. In the system, a teacher or a student can hold a flower, adjust the length of the held flower’s stem with a pair of scissors, and impale the flower on a flower pinholder in a 3-D virtual space. We investigate the influence of the size of smell space (defined as a sphere in which we can p...

In different sources for the Galenic doetrine of smell there appear different elements in the nature of the sense of smell. What we shall suggest is that these accounts are as likely to vary because of varying emphasis as because of error in the copying of manuscripts. In the surviving works of Galen (AD 129 ?-I99) mention of the sense of smell and its objeets can be found in four places: (I) D...

A sensor that detects dangerous odors better than the human nose may be able to "smell" dangerous air pollutants, soil contaminants, insecticides, food pathogens, biological warfare neurotoxins, and body odors associated with illness and disease. Called "smell-seeing" by its inventors, the method relies on color changes that occur in an array of vapor-sensitive dyes in response to exposure. By ...