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Because visually impaired people cannot enjoy food by looking at it when eating, they only rely on taste, aroma, and touch to consume food.
There have been cases where most visually impaired people do not eat food to enjoy it, but rather eat food out of necessity to survive.
It is said that visually impaired people often find it very inconvenient and difficult to ask staff for seasoning or seasoning even when they go to a restaurant.
This is because it is uncomfortable and scary to reveal to others that you have a disability.


Worldwide, flavors are divided into five or six types.

It is classified into Sweet Spicy bitter salty umami and Sour tastes.
Among these, spiciness is classified as a bitter taste, but because around the world, spiciness is classified as other tastes, spiciness was classified as an individual taste.
Among these, the sour seasoning was excluded from the concept because vinegar is commonly used.

Anyway!

Have you ever accidentally added the wrong seasoning when cooking?
When cooking and eating food, have you ever accidentally added salt or other seasonings instead of sugar and lost the original taste of the food?
Ordinary people make many mistakes while cooking, but for visually impaired people, the cooking process can sometimes be a huge source of stress.
This is because you have to remember the location or location of the seasoning yourself and sprinkle the seasoning on yourself, or touch it with your hands and feel the taste to distinguish what the seasoning is.
By examining the average size of spices and the average human hand, we categorized five shapes by shape to classify what size each spice container should be classified into.

The reason for this is that I wanted to express salt or sugar in shapes that represent symbols through shapes so that users can enjoy it and have a different experience when using it.
When engraving Braille on a product, there were many rules to choose from international regulations or a globally accepted language and then emboss it on the product lid.When engraving Braille, it was necessary to research regulations and sizes.
If you look at the icon, it is as follows.

How about drawing reminiscent images or pictures that represent each taste and classifying them into shapes before using them?

After expressing them conceptually, they were also classified by color so that general users and guardians could distinguish them.
We wanted to show that the bottle cap can be used in other places such as spice containers or water bottles, so it can be linked to various products in everyday life, and that the product can be used in a variety of ways depending on the user's
After presenting various user problems, we wanted to show the value of the product's development through solutions.
By understanding people with visual impairments and experiencing their inconveniences and problems first-hand, I hope that through learning and experience, people will be able to distinguish between behavior that is rude to visually impaired people and behavior that is helpful to them.

Thank you.
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