May 18 2008
A post I made to the seeing with sound list about my eating noodles and watermelon with the vOICe.
Hi all,
I have just finished eating breakfast. The different thing though about this breakfast was that I was wearing the vOICe while eating. I breakfasted on noodles and watermelon. When I eat food, mostly, I need to grope for the food on my plate. I do know where it is but I still need to utilise my hand to find the food. The idea was to eliminate the use of the hand. I set a zoom factor of 4 to restrict the camera view to my plate. This was pure guesswork but it seems to have worked well. I was able to sense the noodles falling into the plate as they were being served. I was also able to sense how the noodles were scattered. The main difficulty I had was figuring out what was in the radius of my plate and what was peripheral. Another problem was that even though I was using a headmounted setup, I had to look down directly on my plate to see the food. The next item of food that I had was a watermelon. It was cut into bite sized chunks. Things here worked a little better as in I was able to find the general concentration of pieces. I moved my hand in that general direction on the plate and was able to snag a piece of watermelon with my fork. Things did become a little difficult when I only had very small pieces left. By difficult I mean I had a hard time finding the smaller pieces of watermelon on my plate.
See the video clip of me eating noodles. The clip has been taken from my perspective so you can’t actually see me.
A video of my eating noodles with the vOICe
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