Concept
The user gets to genetically engineer their own food in this fanciful
futuristic fun food..... fabricating machine.
Physical interface
A food vending machine with a rotating blue apple on top. The top screen
gives the instructions and the bottom machine dispenses the food.
Interaction
The user will be given the option of making some food for themselves.
They will be given three choices; 1. Meat 2. Vegetable 3. Junk. On the
screen will also be a date which will be whatever the day is plus a thousand
years, e.g. 29/9/2999. the following table represents the choices and combinations
possible. After selecting the food that the user wishes to make they are
told to press the "force grow" button, there will be appropriate noises
and animations and then their food will drop down and onto the bottom screen.
They will also get a description of their food as it sits in the bottom
screen.
| step | Question | option chosen | choice 1 | choice 2 | choice 3 |
| 1 | Press "cg" to design your own fruit, press "at" too dispense random food. | pressing cg goes too question 2 | pressing at randomly generates a piece of food. | walk away from the exhibit | |
| 2 | What category of food would you like to make? | 1 | meat | vegetable | junk |
| meat | red | seafood | poultry | ||
| vegetable | fruit | root | grain | ||
| Junk | sweet | savoury | fatty | ||
| 3 | choose your food | red | lamb | hogget | mutton |
| seafood | shark | prawn | clam | ||
| poultry | spatchcock | chicken | duck | ||
| fruit | apple | orange | pear | ||
| root | potato | sweet potato | radish | ||
| grain | wheat | rice | corn | ||
| sweet | Fairy Floss | Toffee Apple | Boiled lolly | ||
| savoury | corn chips | beer nuts | rice crackers | ||
| fatty | hot chips | chicken nuggets | battered fish | ||
| 3 | How would you like your food to look? | any | natural | colour | texture |
| natural | no options | no options | no options | ||
| colour | blue | lemon | plum | ||
| special effects | glow in the dark | transparent | electrified | ||
| 5 | How would you like your food to taste? | animal | vegetable | insect | |
| animal | beef | goat | oyster | ||
| vegetable | carrot | brussel sprout | chocolate | ||
| insect | spider | fly | cockroach | ||
| 6. | How would you like your food to smell? | any | flower | cheese | human |
| flower | rose | lavender | jasmine | ||
| cheese | blue cheese | parmesan cheese | cheddar cheese | ||
| human | fart | under arm | hair | ||
| great outdoors | manure | hay | dirt | ||
| 7. | What disease would you like your food to help prevent? | any | heart disease | bowel cancer | alzheimer's |
| 8. | forced growth phase |
If this chart is followed the result will be 189 different looking foods
(27 foods, 3 colours, 3 textures) with an accompanying text description
which gives a gourmet description of the food by inserting the choices
made into a sentence structure with variable adjectives
(from a list).
e.g. Congratulations on choosing to make a
(choice 2)
! Your food is (choice
3) with a refreshing
(choice 4) look. It has the unusual
flavour of the finest available (choice 5)
and the luscious aroma of
(choice 6) .
Possible adjectives
| up-front
in your face disgusting absurd natural flamboyant extravagant heavenly superb magnificent average foul zesty crazy exotic scrumptious |
Delicious
hideous superlative imaginative refreshing tantalizing luscious incredible ridiculous super duper exaggerated subtle robust fresh unusual every day |
an example random sentence:
Congratulations on choosing to make meat!
Your food is mutton with a magnificent lemon look. It has the heavenly
flavour of the finest available cockroach and the unusual aroma of
fetta cheese .
Once the food has been made it falls down on screen and the text appears
at the bottom of the screen.
Information provided by exhibit
That the dna of every organism uses the same language and is interchangeable.
that any organic characteristic can theoretically be engineered
Hogget (1-2yo Sheep) - - - - -
Lamb (1yo Sheep) Ovis sp. - - - -
Mutton (2yo< Sheep)
