The International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT)

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Smelling the Web Olfactory Display for Web

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 Internet technology has gone a very far in term of  advances and improvements, flash players, video com ponents and  other  multimedia  support  are  incorporated  into  the  recent  web  pages.  Also,  services  provided  such  as:  Clouding,  storage  system,  online  banking  and  e-commerce  are  very  comm on  and  used  on  daily  basis,  still  there  are  many  missing  components  regarding  more  human  interaction  with  the  web  page,   rather  than  just  seeing  and  clicking.  In  this  paper,  we  implemented  a  system that’s capable of identifying mouse location  onto a web page and capturing that component (most ly images) extracting  its  meta-data  and  Exchangeable  Image  File  Format  (E XIF)  information,  this  information  is  processed  further  by  a  basic  natural  language processing  subsystem  providing  it  with  text  parsing  results  after  tokenizing  the  string,  this  is  to  come with  a  single conclusion : What dose this image represents. The result is nor mally a single descriptive word corresponds to that  image  sent  to  a  micro-controller  to  be  analyzed  through  a   table  with  corresponding  values  essentially  a  set of  pulses  and  signals  data,  to  display  it  as  a  smell  corresponds  to  the  i tem  under  the  mouse  by  applying  the  pulses  to  the  a tomizer  to  give  the  user  the  smell  of  that  object.  We  found  that  the  system  has  high  successful  identification  ratio  over  websites  with  fairly  accurate  image identification ratio.     


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