Abstract. The World Wide Web (WWW) is one of the main entry points to access
and consume Internet content in various forms. In particular, the Web browser
is used to access different types of media (i.e., text, image, audio, and
video) and on some platforms is the only possibility to the get access to the
Internet and its vast amount of information. Recently, it has been proposed
to stimulate also other senses than vision or audition while consuming
multimedia content through so-called sensory effects with the aim to increase
the Quality of Experience (QoE). The effects are represented as Sensory Effects
Metadata (SEM) which is associated to traditional multimedia content and is 
rendered (synchronized with the media) on sensory devices like fans, vibration
chairs, lamps, etc. In this paper we undertake a principle investigation whether
the sensory effects are ready for the WWW and, in anticipation of the result,
we propose how to embed sensory effect metadata within Web content and the
synchronized rendering thereof.

Keywords: MPEG-V, Sensory Effects, Quality of Experience, World Wide W eb.