At the FORUM8 Design Festival 2024 held at Shinagawa Intercity Hall on November 15, 2024, Professor MIYASHITA Homei, Department of Frontier Media Science, School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, received the 8th Hagura Encouragement Award from the State of the Art Technologies Expression Association for his research result, “Chronospoon: a spoon-shaped device that controls the passage of time”.
In 2023, Professor MIYASHITA announced a taste time machine technology that changes the taste of food over time.[1] “Chronospoon: a spoon-shaped device that controls the passage of time” is a spoon-shaped device that embodies this technology. The device was presented at Interaction 2024 in March 2024[2] and received the Interactive Presentation Award . With this device, it is possible to age or rejuvenate the taste of curry and tomato soup for a specified amount of time, and the aim is to enjoy the change of taste with each bite and contribute to extending the best-before date of food and reducing food loss.
The Hagura Award was established in 2017 to honor the achievements of the late HAGURA Hiroyuki, founder of the State of the Art Technologies Expression Association, who made great achievements in the research and dissemination of cutting-edge expression technologies such as 3D scenography, holography, and VR, in order to raise the quality of expression technologies and contribute to their dissemination in a wide range of fields. This award recognizes achievements that contribute to society through works and initiatives that utilize cutting-edge expression technologies regardless of the field.
[1] MIYASHITA Homei, “Taste Time Machine: Toward the Realization of a Device that Transforms the Taste of Food and Drink to That of the Past and the Future”, The 31st Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software (WISS 2023) , pp.55-61, 2023
[2] MIYASHITA Homei, Chronospoon: a spoon-shaped device that (taste time machine) controls the passage of time, Proceedings of Interaction 2024, pp.404- 409, 2024
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