Project Proposal

My project interacts with the users sense of sight and smell, the idea behind this interactive experiment is how the visual aspect and smell of food items have an impact on your expectation of taste. Will visually unappealing images and the smell of a near vomit like scent affect the user to the extreme that they will not want to eat a tasty sweet lying within? That could also be reversed to say will a visually pleasing and sweet smelling aroma have an affect on how you eat these sweets. Through this exploration I aim to give the users a unique taste experience.  

Instruction

Visually inspect each box. Place your nose in the cutout piece in the top, smell the inside to get a idea on the scents. Open the top and take out a single sweet. Take the sweet and place in mouth and indulge. Whilst the user is indulging on the sweet, continue smelling the box. Does the sight of visually appealing/ unappealing sights and fruity aroma/ sickly aroma have an effect on your expectation of taste?

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Initial Brainstorm -

Wrapping Attached

Built

These are my two boxes, the process is to now fit the wrappings made for them.

Materials

My materials will consist of 5mm thick white foam board held together with pins, these materials give my boxes a smooth clean look. This is a concept of a corner joint, the craft in my final is a lot greater quality

Taste Box Smells

In each box I will have separate smells, one will be a nice fruity smell, whilst the other will be a sickening smell. I was thinking of using a parmesan cheese smell as that is easily confused with the smell of vomit.

Taste Box Designs

Tongue Tastes

The tongue tastes are what I'm aiming for in my experiment, I am trying to trick the sense of taste and sight. People will look at a bag of fruit bursts, unwrap a single fruit bursts. But then once they taste it they will get nothing what they expect and it gives them a shock on whats really the flavor. I will try and make some sweet, salty, bitter and sour lollies. Then also i might add a surprise flavor.

Story Board

Thoughts

After the tut, I got told about how its an experience not just a science experiment. I was thinking of just trying to use smell and taste and disreguard sight. The idea is too try and change the area of the tongue you taste with so it could be bitter, sweet or salty, after they realease their noses they will get the taste of the colour.

Experiment One

This is my first experiment on changing the colour of fruit bursts, i let them soak in they food dye but found out they slowly disintegrate in the dye. I got the desired effect on a few of the bursts. I am thinking about changing the lollie type to see if I can get my desired effect. 
Now my goal is to research other method to introduce different colours into the lollies.