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TasteBud: Bring Taste Back into the Game

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Marianna ObristAuthors Info & Claims

MHFI'18: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction

Article No.: 1, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3279954.3279955

Published: 16 October 2018 Publication History

Abstract

When we are babies we put anything and everything in our mouths, from Lego to crayons. As we grow older we increasingly rely on our other senses to explore our surroundings and objects in the world. When interacting with technology, we mainly rely on our senses of vision, touch, and hearing, and the sense of taste becomes reduced to the context of eating and food experiences. In this paper, we build on initial efforts to enhance gaming experiences through gustatory stimuli. We introduce TasteBud, a gustatory gaming interface that we integrated with the classic Minesweeper game. We first describe the details on the hardware and software design for the taste stimulation and then present initial findings from a user study. We discuss how taste has the potential to transform gaming experiences through systematically exploiting the experiences individual gustatory stimuli (e.g., sweet, bitter, sour) can elicit.

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TasteBud: Bring Taste Back into the Game
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User interface design

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MHFI'18: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction

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DOI:10.1145/3279954

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Chen PKo YWang J(2024)GustoGear: A Cross-Modal Interface Emphasizing Tactile and Flavor Communication for Extended RealityProceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences10.1145/3639701.3663644(402-407)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2024
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Vi CObrist MYeomans M(2024)The Role of Novel Taste and Smell Delivery Devices in Facilitating Multisensory and Eating Behaviour ResearchSmell, Taste, Eat: The Role of the Chemical Senses in Eating Behaviour10.1007/978-3-031-41375-9_3(29-42)Online publication date: 27-Mar-2024
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