Multisensory Experiences Where the senses meet technology

Most of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature; that is, they consist of what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and much more. Almost any experience you can think of, such as eating a meal or going to the cinema, involves a magnificent sensory world.

In recent years, many of these experiences have been increasingly transformed and capitalised on through advancements that adapt the world around us - through technology, products, and services - to suit our ever more computerised environment.

Multisensory Experiences: Where the senses meet technology looks at this trend and offers a comprehensive introduction to the dynamic world of multisensory experiences and design. It takes the reader from the fundamentals of multisensory experiences, through the relationship between the senses and technology, to finally what the future of those experiences may look like, and our responsibility in it.

This book empowers you to shape your own and other people's experiences by considering the multisensory worlds that we live in through a journey that marries science and practice. It also shows how we can take advantage of the senses and how they shape our experiences through intelligent technological design.

Carlos Velasco, Associate Professor, carlos.velasco@bi.no,Marianna Obrist, Professor of Multisensory Experiences, SCHI Lab, University of Sussex

Carlos Velasco is an Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School (Norway), where he co-founded the Centre for Multisensory Marketing. He also holds a Research Fellowship at the SCHI Lab, Sussex University (UK). Carlos received his D.Phil. in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University. His work is at the intersection between Psychology, Marketing, and Human-Computer Interaction, and focuses on understanding, and capitalizing on, our multisensory experiences and their guiding principles. Carlos has worked with a number of companies from all around the world on multisensory experiences.


Marianna Obrist is a Professor of Multisensory Experiences at the Department of Informatics, School of Engineering and Informatics, Sussex University (United Kingdom) and received her PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Salzburg (Austria). Marianna is leading the Sussex Computer Human Interaction Lab (SCHI 'sky' Lab), a research group dedicated to the investigation of multisensory experiences. The interdisciplinary team explores tactile, gustatory, and olfactory experiences as novel interaction modalities. Before joining Sussex, Marianna was a Marie Curie Fellow at Newcastle University and prior to this an Assistant Professor for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg.