A diet device that gives a feeling of fullness by changing the size of food

Recent research has shown that 'sense of satiety' can be judged comprehensively not only from the actual intake but also from the appearance and surroundings, but based on that, rather than adjusting the amount to eat To change the size of food to get satiety from the sense of sightExtended satietyResearch. A headset has been developed that can freely adjust the size of food by seeing food through the camera,Digital Content Epo 2012YouTube has uploaded how you actually use it.

Augmented Satiety
http://www.cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~narumi/augmentedsatiety.html

Change the size of food and your appetite with AR system from Tokyo U. - DigInfo TV
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The way you actually use the device can be seen from the following movie.

Change the size of food and your appetite with AR system from Tokyo U. # DigInfo - YouTube


I attached the headset with sucking.


Oreo in hand.


The image that can be seen through the camera installed in the headset is displayed on the PC screen next to it.


Oreo of the size of the palm size is reflected on the screen.


However, what I have in hand is still a normal size oreo. This is called an Augmented Reality (real extension) system, a technology to extend the real world perceived by people by computer. Besides this, Google's eyewear computerProject GlassThat is one of them.


This is normal sized oreo.


It gradually becomes larger.



On the contrary it is also possible to make it smaller.


This is a research on the University of Tokyo graduate schoolTakashi NarumiMr. Recent studies in psychology and others have shown that the amount of meal to be taken is indirectly and unconsciously influenced by circumstances such as the size of dishes such as dishes and spoons and the amount of dishes.


Based on this, Narumi et al.'s research team aims to realize "extended feeling of satiety" that manipulates feeling of fullness obtained from the same amount of meal.


We conducted experiments under strict conditions using 12 subjects so far and found that when we enlarged the food and showed it 1.5 times the size, the amount to eat was reduced by about 10%. On the other hand, if you set the size to two-thirds, the amount you eat will increase by 15%.


Currently it is done using the background of blue back, but we plan to improve image processing technology so that it can be used even for general households in the future.


In the future it would be better to refrain from eating "foods are big, and on the contrary" for more food "should be smaller for the food to be made smaller automatically by the computer, healthy eating habits We want to be able to maintain.