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Nowadays people often are mindlessly consuming and we don?t often consciously engage with the meaning food has to us.

How we interact with and experience food is a very personal thing. What, where and when we like to eat and what meaning food experiences have to us are part of who we are. This product provides people a way to more consciously engage with their food. It will make them understand the value of food more and will stimulate them to make more sustainable decisions.

From the dinner table colourful lights and sounds appear. At first these reflect concrete aspects of the food like the colour of the ingredients. As you use the product for longer the AI will get to know you better and the colours and sounds will slowly change to reflect more abstract aspects about your associations with the food. If you are eating something that reminds you of your childhood, the product might create an atmosphere that reflects your childhood hometown.

The AI will learn how the user feels about the food based on facial reactions and eating habits, and the user in a further stage can additionally show their preferences by using gestures to interact with the projection and soundscape.

At the dinner table this relationship you have with the food is abstracted to colour and sound inside the table surface.

It will be a luxurious product, for people who want to invest in enriching and personalising their food experience. It will not necessarily be for daily use, but it can be an occasional experience.