Taste+: Digitally Enhancing Taste Sensations of Food and Beverages
Taste+: Digitally Enhancing Taste Sensations of Food and Beverages
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味道：以数字方式增强食品和饮料的味觉
DOI：
10.1145/2647868.2654878
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2014
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E. Do
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作者：
Nimesha Ranasinghe;Kuan;Gajan Suthokumar;E. Do
近年来，数字媒体技术将视野扩展到非传统的感觉方式，例如味觉。这一演示展示了“味觉+”，它可以在不增加调味成分的情况下，以数字方式改善食品和饮料的味觉。它主要利用人类舌头上微弱的、可控的电脉冲来增强食物或饮料的酸味、咸味和苦味。味觉+由两个原型餐具组成，一个瓶子和一个勺子。这两款餐具都嵌入了电子控制模块，以实现增强的味觉。这些模块通过连接到口罩上的银电极在舌头上施加受控的电脉冲。此外，不同的叠加颜色象征着不同的味觉，柠檬绿代表酸，海蓝代表咸，红色代表红酒苦。初步的实验结果表明，酸味和咸味是可以引起的主要感觉，而苦味的反应相对温和。此外，我们还观察到了几种混合的感觉，如咸味和酸味一起。
In recent years, digital media technologies expand horizons into non-traditional sensory modalities, for instance, the sense of taste. This demonstration presents `taste+,' which digitally improves the taste sensations of food and beverages without additional flavoring ingredients. It primarily utilizes weak and controlled electrical pulses on the human tongue to enhance sourness, saltiness, and bitterness of food or beverages. Taste+ consists of two prototype utensils, a bottle and a spoon. Both utensils have embedded electronic control modules to achieve enhanced taste sensations. These modules apply controlled electrical pulses on the tongue through silver electrodes attached to the mouth pieces. Furthermore, different superimposed colors symbolize distinct taste sensations, lemon green represents sour, ocean blue is salty, red for red wine bitter. The initial experimental results suggested that sourness and saltiness are the main sensations that could be evoked while bitterness has comparatively mild responses. Furthermore, we also observed several mixed sensations such as salty-sour together.