Marianna Obrist is Professor of Multisensory Interfaces at UCL (University College London), Department of Computer Science and Deputy Director (Digital Health) for the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering. Her research ambition is to establish touch, taste, and smell as interaction modalities in human-computer interaction (HCI), spanning a range of application scenarios, from immersive VR experiences to automotive, and health/wellbeing uses.
Marianna is an inaugural member for the ACM Future of Computing Academy and was selected Young Scientist 2017 and 2018 to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the People’s Republic of China. She is co-founder of OWidgets LTD, a University spin-out that is enabling the design of novel olfactory experiences. The company’s smell delivery technology was exhibited twice at the WEF in Davos, 2019 and 2020. Most recently, she published the book ‘Multisensory Experiences: where the senses meet technology’.