Finding FoodMedia Lab: Counter Intelligence

Professor Ted Selker; Selker@media.mit.edu • Personal activity• Group activity• Procurement• The future

– food – procurement– Transportation– Fullfillment

Coming Home To Dinner

• Householders spend time at home with others

• Cleaning up is a problem

• Special-ness of home Special-ness of going out

• … Style of use of home– If I call you about dinner in the morning –vs-

evening

Marketplace & CommensalityCounter Intelliegence

Ted SelkerHas Wall Street Stolen the word "marketplace"? The village marketplace was a place where desire, opportunity and fulfillment met. The smell of coffee, frying food, garlic, fresh fruit and spices were everywhere.A bustle and enthusiasm pervades. We observe other people's choices.We remember things, but are also confronted by the unfamiliar. Tomorrows efficient convenience needs to embrace social experience, choice, quality and indulgence in marketplaces.

Finding FoodMedia Lab: Counter Intelligence

Professor Ted Selker; Selker@media.mit.edu` • Personal activity• Group activity• Procurement• The future

– food – procurement– transportation– fulfillment

Finding Food

• History of finding food

• AI and finding food

• Community Agriculture

Architecture/Outside-inside• Viewable value• Interior endless aisle café• Big delivery trucks• Play structure • Gas Entrance• Reward car rinse

Pay Play structure concept • Climb pile of sacks of “rice”• Food industry theme

– Some of the bags talk

• Move sack of “potatoes” – Sensors make weighing games

• Maze of fake tilled ground – Sensors when you step on things

• Stacking apple crate blocks• Tomato bin with tomato balls to play in• Hide and chase in two rows of corn • Ground that gives way to swallow your shoe

– Like a bounce house but even safer

• Electronic tug of war gets “tractor out of muck”

Infinite Aisle/Café, kid CaféViewable from outside store

Infinite Aisle Café Table

• Sit, order and learn

• Affinity card, barcode reader and card swipe

• Viewable on site– Party orders, jewelry, cars

• Pay entertainment

Kid Café Table

• Parents buy their wine and meat while kid…– Free games while number is waiting to be filled– Cart companion or phone tracks child’s activity

• Armrest game controller

• Look at Lego, Disney…

• Pay entertainment

• Cart Companion or phone – Teach about products

• Round roast: $1.99 Lean meat, Gourmet whenbasted in wine and tarragon

– Buy products• Meat counter• Infinite Aisle assists purchases

– Crock Pot for roasts…

Smart Aisles teach and engage kids/shoppers

Aisle Aid for Kids• Communicate with Cart companion• Sound projected where person is watching• Store game: find ingredients for dinner “ice pop” prize

– “Macaroni and cheese, ham, jello, milk”

• Scan ingredients – Learn about them

• Nutrition• Use• Where grown • This years crop…

Aisle Aid for Shoppers• Scan, Swipe Card, Microphone on Shelf Bezel• Body position Cursor• Aisle aid = longer aisles

– Better than shelf space

• Information:– Cleaning, Red Wine

• “Buy stainex”

• Infinite Aisle

Carts for kids?

• Contain them in the cart?• Give them things to do?

Smart places to eat and buy

Eye-aRe

Scenarios:Scenarios:– Glasses exchange ID#s Glasses exchange ID#s with each otherwith each other– Toy dog responds to IR Toy dog responds to IR beacon from the glassesbeacon from the glasses

• Motion Sensor: LED & photo detector

• Software: detects fixation and communicates via IR with the environment

Glasses Mounted Eye Motion DetectionGlasses Mounted Eye Motion Detection

What you do says so much …

• Where you are tells a story– Floor imagery comments on what people are doing

• How you react to what you are doing– Laffcam listens to camera person

• Watching your mouse

LAFCam

…Index video with laughter and skin conductivity

A Lockerd, F.Mueller

• Reaction based interface:– Your reactions edit your video

Mind full of intentionsLearning by watching

• I look around– Interest Tracker, Invision

• Eye aRe Personal gaze– Looking for a sign?

- Robot seeks work as fuel tank inspector

Counter to Learn and Play with

Tagged things drive story

Gift Card Veggies?

Many others

• Mike Bove, Hyper Soap..• Joe Paradiso, Tap sensors…• Mitch Resnick, Computer Club house• Cynthia Breazeal, Robots!• Hiroshi Ishii, IO Lightbulb…• …• How do we start

– Research?– Deployment!

• We must learn. • Working together to execute.

Finding Food

• Personal activity• Group activity• Procurement• The future

– food – procurement– transportation– fulfillment