Hugo Liu, Matthew Hockenberry & Ted Selker (2005). Synesthetic Recipes: foraging for food with the family, in taste-space. ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Posters, Los Angeles.
Liu, H., Hockenberry, M., & Selker, T. (2005). Synesthetic Recipes: foraging for food with the family, in taste-space. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Posters, Los Angeles.
@inproceedings{liu2005synesthetic,
author = {Hugo Liu and Matthew Hockenberry and Ted Selker},
title = {Synesthetic Recipes: foraging for food with the family, in taste-space},
booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Posters, Los Angeles},
doi = {10.1145/1186954.1186968},
url = {https://starheartsong.com/papers/pdf/SIGGRAPH2005-SynestheticRecipes.pdf},
year = {2005}
}Synesthetic Recipes begins with the desired experience of a meal rather than a known ingredient or dish. Its interface searches 60,000 recipes through 5,000 ingredients, 1,000 sensory terms, 400 nutrients, and negations. A cooking model adds 21,000 sensory facts about 4,200 ingredients and 1,300 facts about procedures. As someone types “hearty,” “mushy,” “moist,” “aromatic,” or “no beef,” recipe scraps fade in and out; opening one highlights the ingredients that explain its match. Family avatars carry manually programmed tastes, react to candidates, and explain why. Earlier versions were tried by hundreds of Media Lab visitors, but the poster reports no controlled retrieval or usability evaluation. Its reach is bounded by the parser, keyword profiles, and finite food knowledge.