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Progress Report of DGRS

Library & Internet
In early January, we collection information through two main sources: University library and the Internet. We borrow books and papers which related to mechanical part and scientific part of our project. Regarding to the scientific part, we found some useful information documented in “Biology of Chemotactic Response” by Society for General Microbiology and “Telewest Float Surf & Sniff Smell Generator” by Simon Perry. These two pieces of information show that feasibility of our project and suggest some scientific methods of producing smell chemicals. Regarding to the mechanical part, we found a well documented article on the Internet “STINKJET: The Valve-Controlled Smell Generator” by By Ben Greenblatt in 2000. It provides some mechanical theorems and designs about smell generators.

Professor
In telephone conversation with Mr. Stephen King of Engineering Department, he is surprised that the project will change the world, in both academic and application. He figure out the main problem is how to mix the chemicals together in the machine. The machines will be easily developed after solving this problem. Mr. Stephen King is pleased to be the consultant for the project.

In the conversation with Mr. Simon Yueng of Science Department, he said that it take long time to analysis the basic chemical elements in a smell, but the Science Department is taking some related research, we should ask the research team to get more information on it. It helps to shorten the researching period on finding the basic chemical elements in a smell. Mr. Simon Yueng is also pleased to be the consultant for this project.

Survey
We designed questionnaires to find out what other companies and universities think about our project. We conducted the survey on February by sending the questionnaires to over 200 e-shopping companies, mobile phone companies and universities.

We had 190 responses. We found that 76% of them think our project is useful and may make a big change of out life. Only 16% think our project is impossible.

Impossible 30 Useless 15 Useful	42 Can change the world 103 total 190

Scheduled Work
After analyzing the survey result from companies and universities, we are going to conduct surveys on different kinds of users such as home users and office users. Since our project is related to e-shopping and communication, it is a good idea to conduct the survey on the Internet.

Conclusion
The development of the project is on the right way. The minor problems have been identified, and already been solved mostly. However, there are still some major problems need to be solved. For example, determine the basic chemicals in a smell, the technique of mixing the chemicals in the machine. We may require the helps from research institute of Science Department and Engineering Department.

We will put more effort on the remaining parts of the development stages. We are confident that the research progress will guarantee the success of the development.