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Exhibition Description

Petravic Sebastian Taste Puzzle

I have created a puzzle in which the only way to solve it is by taste. I was interested in the way sight affects the way that we think things tastes and how we have become accustom to certain flavours  being a certain colour. When these visual clues have been taken away, it is much more difficult. I have tried to make the colours for the drinks, the drink containers, the puzzle pieces and the mat  misleading and confusing. This should create an interesting experience for the user because of the  way they will have to only rely on taste to solve a problem and try and not be fooled by their eyes. Instruction There are 9 different flavoured drinks, all with randomly chosen colours. After trying a drink with a  straw, the user takes the puzzle piece that is the same colour of the outside of the container and  places it on the mat, on the flavour that they think the drink is. After all puzzle pieces have been  placed, if the user can see a hidden message, they have correctly solved the puzzle.

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The link between the puzzle pieces and the drinks will be the colour of the puzzle piece and the colour that the drink is contained in.

creating puzzle pieces

Because I want this puzzle to be souly solved with taste, I don't want to give the user any visual clues in how to solve it. This is why I want to make it very difficult to solve visually.

 The only way to know what the image is, is when it has been completed. I also placed translucent white squares at the bottom of each section so that the user knows with way to place the puzzle piece.

puzzle mat

I'm interested in how the way something looks can effect the way that it tastes. Ive tried changing the colours of the flavoured drinks, this doesn't usually trick the user unless the flavours are similar e.g. strawberry and raspberry. Although changing the colour does make it difficult to identify, showing just how much we  rely on the way something looks to figure out what it is. Going with this idea of confusion, or restricting of the senses, I made a mat with the names of the flavours but used contrasting colours that didnt relate the to the colour of the flavour.

 

This should further confuse the user, creating an interesting experience

Experiment

After trying out a test with raspberry and lemon drinks, with altered colours, the user figured out what the lemon drink was, but for a less distinguishible flavour, they didnt figure out what flavour the raspberry drink was. Although in my final design, the user will know what flavours there are, but not what flavour each drink is.