As a collaboration with Sam Carmichael, Sarah Henry, and Miguel Olivares decided to focus on creating a experimental artifact that gave the user a platform to create new food experiences through light.
This project strives to generate new ways of eating and seeing your food to further your understanding of the eating experience.
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Using Arduino they program multiple modes, considering the course of a meal and potential experimentation. Through multiple prototypes they arrive to an organic form made out of maple wood that sets the stage to play with many plates.
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They went through the design research process of ideating, interviewing, prototyping, user testing, synthesizing and developing insights. A key insight that influenced the project came from several participants describing how the flavor changed as the light did, even tho the food remained the same.
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