enhance dining experience

enhance dining experience

1. why

   • reduce eating challenge
     • functional
       • improve user comfort
     • problems faced while eating
       • food falling off plate'spoon
       • food is sliding around on plate
         • difficulty in scooping food by cutlery
       • they cannot measure the amount of food that is scooped by spoon
       • much food is wasted as it is scattered over the plate
       • glass of water not visible
       • knocking down of vessels while reaching out
       • keeping used cutlery over the plate after eating
       • easy identification of cutlery
       • difficulty in recognizing hot food
       • plate shifting
       • orientation of
   • increasing aesthetic appeal
     • play with symmetry and balance
     • improve colour harmony
     • constrast of texture
     • definition of line to delineate shape
     • constrast of light and dark
     • why?
       • they have strong visualisation capability
       • rely on sense of touch/ smell/speech
         • to communicate with other people and surroundings
           • subtle sensory cues
   • psychological intervention
     • boosting confidence
       • encouraging to come and eat at a public space
         • being out of comfort zone
       • independent
     • reduce stigma over disability
       • perceiving consumers with taste rather than people in need of help
       • why?
         • visually impaired are treated as second class citizens
         • lot of taboos revolve around them

2. how

   • reduce stigmatisation
     • blind people are capable of feeding themselves on their own
   • univeral design
     • inclusivity
     • used by people with normal vision

3. when

   • having meal at breakfast/lunch/brunch/snack/dinner
   • family
   • date/lover
   • friends/colleages
   • alone

4. whom

   • visually impaired
     • levels of visual impairment
       • MILD VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
         • Can read relatively larger characters
         • No difficulty in identifying shapes, colours and brightness contracts
       • MODERATE VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
         • Can tell shapes and colours of objects and can distinguish between brightness and darkness
         • Can only read characters with larger size and broader strokes
       • SEVERE VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
         • Can only distinguish more obvious changes in brightness and darkness
         • May not see anything (completely blind)
     • reason
       • refractive error (36.8%)
       • cataract (50%)
       • gluccoma (2%)
       • others

5. where

   • home
   • cafe/ restaurant
   • blind centre

6. what

   • adaptive tableware
     • plate
     • cutlery
       • spoon
       • fork
       • knife
     • cup