Research and Prototype
RESEARCH QUESTION“MACHINES, LIKE PHONE AND COMPUTERS, ARE PROVIDING INCREASING EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND VALUE TO THEIR USERS. HOW MACHINE VISION AS A NEW FORM OF A MEDIUM CHANGE USERS’ HABIT OF EATING?”
MUKBANG OBSERVATIONS
Is Mukbang helping people killing loneliness and why?
After watching top rated YouTube Mukbang videos, we found a visual composition trend of them having large appearance of head and food. Also, similar to the triggering effect as ASMR, mukbang videos are normally using triggering sound to help convey foods’ textures.
DATA COLLECTION AND TRAINING
How can machine perceive this kind activity to help it become a norm?
Machines cannot actually taste, look and listen. The activity is purely pixels and code. In order to train a machine to act as a companion, we collected mukbang visual and audio data were then collected to train an algorithm that eat with a human.
IMAGE TRAINING IN RUNWAY ML
FRONT-END INTEGRATION AND TESTINGIntegrate Traditional Korean Restaurant Design with Machine Vision