Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Filed under: senses

Heston's Mission Impossible - Cineworld

Heston believes that a visit to the cinema should be a multi-sensory experience which tickles smell and taste not just sound and vision. And he wants the food on the cinema menu to reflect the action on screen.

If you get a chance to watch it, the Cineworld episode of Heston's Mission Impossible had an interesting bit about how he wanted to create a "multi-sensory" experience at the cinema, he described it as "4D Cinema". The whole episode is interesting, but the most relevant section was about mid-way through. It's not so much a technological approach to the idea, but I thought the experiment he did with the cinema staff was pretty enlightening.

How to describe a sense?

Since our visit to the Science Museum, I have been thinking about the way we could describe a sense, in our case taste and smeel!

In order to describe the flavour or the odor of food we could probably have an image a per example a fruit that would be cut open and then words will pop out showing the user how the fruit would taste or smell like.

However in order to do that we would need words to describe these senses, here is a list of adjectives we could us:

Aroma: http://world-food-and-wine.com/describing-aroma

Taste: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/words-to-describe-the-taste-of-food

 

A funny game we could also integrate in our design would be to ask the user how he would describe something, as below:

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/683076