1.1 Anticipation

After a long discuss, we interpret anticipation as “ an atitude/ reaction towards expectation.” The atitude/ reaction doesn’t have to be an action, taking no action counted as a reaction as well. The determinant of our reaction is the expectation, We identified four sources of expectation that give rise to concessive relations: Causality, Implication,Correlation and Implicature.

 

1.2  Weather Forecasting & Anticipation

The weather could influence and determine how  our plan and activities going to be. Perfect planning and activity management could be ruined by wrong weather. Accurate weather forecasting are important for planning our activities. Weather Forecasting is a perfect guidance for our expectation to anticipate  what will happen during the whole day.

 

1.3 Why Smell?

On average, each person breathes 20,000 times a day and with each breath comes a chance to pitch a product because the sense of smell cannot be turned off. Smell is one of our most primal and deeply rooted senses and functions as our chemical alert system. It is hardwired to perceive whether the molecules around our bodies are beneficial or dangerous, a determination of fundamental importance to the survival of all forms of life . When a person smells something, the odor receptors produce an immediate, instinctive reaction.

The olfactory bulbs are part of the limbic system and directly connect to the structures that process emotion (the amygdala) they also strongly related to associative learning (the hippocampus)

 “With all of the other senses, you think before you respond, but with scent, your brain responds before you think,” ( Pam Scholder Ellen, a Georgia State University marketing professor)

 

1.4 Weather Forecasting with Smell

Based on the characteristic of smell , we would like to use smell as  notification, so we could enhance user  experience in sensation,perception and emotion while  receiving information. This device based furniture will give the user information about the weather with not only smell,but also smell visualisation.Once the device successfully forecasted about the weather, the information will be delivered with smell and coloured smoke. E.g. The smell of citrus and yellow smoke will be representate  sunny day, mint and white smoke as snowy day, wet soil and blue smoke as rainy day, and lavender and greyish-purple smoke as cloudy. In addition,  smell and its visualisation will take the role as ambient and mood controller to space and user.