TY - GEN

T1 - Sonic Mug

T2 - 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound, AM 2019

AU - Mathiesen, Signe Lund

AU - Byrne, Derek Victor

AU - Wang, Qian Janice

N1 - Funding Information: This work has been supported by the Dean’s start up grant, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University. A special thanks to Line Pawelzcyk for agreeing to make a prototype of the Sonic Mug. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 ACM.

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - This paper outlines the development of an in-progress prototype system that explores the interplay between sonic interaction and eating activities. The music-playing mug prototype is designed as a physical interface which aligns the user's senses with the act of drinking. Drinking from the mug involves multiple senses, including tactile interaction with the mug, gustatory stimuli from the beverage, and by engaging with the sonic mug, the user becomes attentive towards the onset of the sound when drinking, thereby involving the sense of hearing as well. The system is being developed as an experiential piece which allows the user to explore the nature of multisensory perception and to experience how what we taste can be influenced by what we listen to. An initial pilot study was carried out, revealing a relationship between sound liking and taste evaluation, in addition to certain design challenges to be addressed in subsequent iterations. In this paper, we discuss these issues and propose new directions for the development of the prototype.

AB - This paper outlines the development of an in-progress prototype system that explores the interplay between sonic interaction and eating activities. The music-playing mug prototype is designed as a physical interface which aligns the user's senses with the act of drinking. Drinking from the mug involves multiple senses, including tactile interaction with the mug, gustatory stimuli from the beverage, and by engaging with the sonic mug, the user becomes attentive towards the onset of the sound when drinking, thereby involving the sense of hearing as well. The system is being developed as an experiential piece which allows the user to explore the nature of multisensory perception and to experience how what we taste can be influenced by what we listen to. An initial pilot study was carried out, revealing a relationship between sound liking and taste evaluation, in addition to certain design challenges to be addressed in subsequent iterations. In this paper, we discuss these issues and propose new directions for the development of the prototype.

KW - Crossmodal correspondences

KW - Flavour

KW - HCI

KW - Interaction design

KW - Multisensory

KW - Musicology

KW - Sonification

KW - Sound design

KW - Taste

U2 - 10.1145/3356590.3356634

DO - 10.1145/3356590.3356634

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85076761603

T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

SP - 264

EP - 267

BT - Proceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference

PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

Y2 - 18 September 2019 through 20 September 2019

ER -