미각을 은유적으로 연계한 데이터 콘텐츠 작품 설계에 관한 연구 - 프로토타입 [입의 향연]연작을 중심으로

Abstract

This study is about the design, experimentation and evaluation of new content works based on various types of data by metaphorically connecting to taste. To establish the conceptual foundations for this study, the author extracted 'taste', 'dinner', 'cross-modality', 'genre integration', and 'metaphor' among the concepts of the 'Manifesto of Futurist Cooking' of Italian futurists in the early 20th century, which are suitable for the current zeitgeist. The basic concepts of the study were set based on these foundations. A data content design that metaphorically utilizes food and taste was proposed as a solution using the projection mapping technique linked with tableware objects on a table and representing real-time Korean data such as real-time search words in the context of a dinner. Based on this, by implementing the first prototype, Dinner, the author attempted to present the basic form of the data content design that metaphorically linked to taste. Afterwards, overcoming the simplicity of Dinner, four Banquet of the Mouth series were produced, tested, and evaluated in order to utilize various types of data, such as Twitter tweets, Internet news headlines, and weather information, and to represent information in a cross-modality format. Through trial-and-error with the four versions, some success was realized when implementing The Banquet of Mouth with appropriate data selection and combinations, easy content creation for participants, and active interaction affordance. However, there was also criticism from an expert who commented on the lack of the visual formativeness of data representation and passive connections with other senses, such as tactile sensation. As a methodology for this study, the author's research method, which modified the seven-step data visualization methodology proposed by Ben Fry, was applied. This study has research value in that it explicitly shares the trial-and-error process for designing prototypes of real-time data content for an attempt to integrate audiovisual content and to pursue equality of the senses by metaphorically connecting to taste. However, it has limitations in that it is necessary to link with more diverse senses centering on taste and to pursue a closer representation of cross-sensory formativeness.