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Watch Your Flavors: Augmenting People’s Flavor Perceptions and Associated Emotions based on Videos Watched while Eating

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Meetha Nesam James,

Nimesha Ranasinghe,

Lora OehlbergAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

Article No.: 429, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519846

Published: 28 April 2022 Publication History

Abstract

People engage in different activities while eating alone, such as watching television or scrolling through social media on their phones. However, the impacts of these visual contents on human cognitive processes, particularly related to flavor perception and its attributes, are still not thoroughly explored. This paper presents a user study to evaluate the influence of six different types of video content (including nature, cooking, and a new food video genre known as mukbang) on people’s flavor perceptions in terms of taste sensations, liking, and emotions while eating plain white rice. Our findings revealed that the participants’ flavor perceptions are augmented based on different video content, indicating significant differences in their perceived taste sensations (e.g., increased perception of salty and spicy sensations). Furthermore, potential future implications are revealed to promote digital commensality and healthier eating habits.

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Watch Your Flavors: Augmenting People’s Flavor Perceptions and Associated Emotions based on Videos Watched while Eating
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Chen WYang YLiu KPai YYamaoka JMinamizawa K(2024)Cymatics Cup: Shape-Changing Drinks by Leveraging CymaticsProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642920(1-19)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
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