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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Sensory Rooms & Human Olfactory Control

Sensory rooms (please see: What is a Sensory Room? – Interactionare specially designed space that provides individuals with a controlled and immersive sensory experience. These rooms are not only used for relaxation and stress relief but also as therapeutic tools for various sensory processing disorders, disabilities, and cognitive conditions. 

My patent application to USPTO, which focuses on the sense of smell for creating a comfortable environment for an individual, was granted this past July 19.  Please see:  

ttps://patents.justia.com/patent/12371032

I think it could be enhanced further via the below, open-access paper and the related papers, for its implementation.


Furthermore, there seems to be the possibility of creating multi-modal sensory rooms by utilizing the results of current empirical research to enhance an olfactory-only room.  Please see below:

This item from 2016:


This paper is important because it has a diagram of a room that was used in the empirical setup - a Faraday cage and a magnetic field emitter.

As well as this one from 2022:


The second paper empirically verifies the existence of a magnetic sense in human beings and goes on further and indicates that the effect is most pronounced under blue light illumination!

I think that one can take the setup from the first article and enhance it to construct a Magnetic Sensory Room - a Comfort Room for those who are sensitive to variations of the ambient magnetic fields.  (I have known such individuals, both of them females.)

One could then add control mechanisms for adjusting the strength (intensity) of the magnetic field as well as its frequency (although this may not be needed).

By adding a collection of suitably situated light emitters of the 3-primary colors, as well as control mechanisms for adjusting the intensity of light and the RGB combinations, an individual could make such adjustments as he or she wishes.

A user could then make such adjustments as he or she wishes.

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