#cognitiveresponse

·      Please sit down and place the napkin in your lap

·      Place your hands flat on the table and close your eyes

·      Breathe naturally allowing your body to relax

·      Now breathing through the nose inhale for a count of four then exhale for a count of four

·      Open your eyes

·      Look at the food item that is placed in front of you, observing the colours, shapes and textures

·      Pick up the item

·      Hold the item to your eye line

·      Keep your eyes focused on it whilst moving it backwards and forwards – towards and away from your face

·      Look at what you are touching

·      Pay attention to how it feels between your fingers

·      Squeeze it ever so slightly, observing the subtle changes in pressure and temperature

·      Close your eyes

·      Now sniff quickly

·      Smell again breathing in deep

·      Out loud describe the smell in one word

·      Open your eyes

·      Maintaining eye contract with the other participants

·      Bring the item to your mouth

·      Stroke your lips moving it from left to right, Observing textures and subtle tastes

·      Smell now breathing in deep

·      Stick out your tongue

·      Place the item to the tip of your tongue and very slowly move from left to right

·      Observing the textures and temperature

·      Place the whole item in your mouth, positioning it between your teeth

·      Bite once without chewing

·      Feel the changes in pressure and texture

·      Without swallowing chew slowly for 10 times listening to the sounds

·      Thinking about the sensations that occur

·      Swallow

·      Close your eyes

·      Breathe naturally through the nose

·      Open your eyes

·      Place your napkin on the table

·      Stand up and leave the room

Having decided to explore the notion of ‘what it is to eat’ for my January presentations, I modified my instructions and how I would set up the space in order to work as a larger group. Having being present in all the experiences thus far I decided to remove myself physically with the aim of making it a more intimate experience between the participants. I used a monitor and microphone so I was still able to see the participants and know when to give them the next instruction and they could only hear me. I think this worked quite well and will help with my development of language and tone of voice.

Rules:

·      Please sit down and place your hands flat on the table

·      For the purpose of this experiment I will refer to you as participant A and participant B

·      Please check your name card now and only follow the instructions that apply to you

·      Try to remain silent and maintain eye contact through out the experiment.

 Both Participants:

·      Look directly at the person opposite you

·      Breathe – taking a deep breath in and out

·      Take the napkin and place it neatly in your lap

 Participant A

·      Observe the food that is placed in front of you starting from left to right

·      Take a closer look at the 1st item, observing the colours, shapes and textures

·      Pick up the first item,

·      Feeling it between your fingers observing the subtle changes in pressure and temperature

·      Smell now

·      Smell again breathing in deep

·      Bring the item to your mouth and stroke your lips moving from left to right

·      Maintain eye contact with the person opposite you

·      Bring the item to your mouth and stick out your tongue

·      Very slowly place the item to your tongue and move very subtly from left to right

·      Thinking about what you might taste

·      Smell now taking a deep breath

·      Place the whole item between your teeth and bite once, without chewing

·      Feel the changes in pressure, temperature and texture

·      Without swallowing chew slowly for 20 times listening to the sounds

·      Thinking about the sensations that occur

·      Swallow

THE NEXT TWO ITEMS SHALL BE DONE IN THE EXACT SAME WAY!

Both Participants:

·      Place your hands flat on the table and looking directly at the person opposite you

·      Breath- taking a deep breath in and out

·      Place your napkin on the table

·      Stand up and leave the room

 Equipment List

·      3 course meal in miniature x number of participants

·      Napkins/plates – white

·      Table and chairs – make space as clinical as possible

·      Video camera/monitor so I can watch the experiment

·      Speakers so the participants can hear my instructions

·      Enclosed room for the experiment to take place

·      Invitation to dinner – title/ invitations/menu – I want this to be quite clinical/scientific not comfortable

·      After experiment food boxes – thank the audience for their participation

I want to investigate peoples behaviour when placed in a situation where some people get to eat and others don't. So in my next spatial interactions lab i will provide something delicious - cakes/pastry’s etc but only for a few people. I will need to give an indication that this is just for them - how will i do this? I want to also effect the state before class starts, so perhaps i will tell people not to have breakfast, the way i can do this is by sending an invitation to breakfast. I could use a number system in where people have to queue and wait in a line before entering the class, then i could compose the class to where people sit and to where the people who get to eat are located. I want to increase anticipation so some sort of instructions could be helpful in order to achieve this. 

** need to make an invitation, it may also be helpful at this stage to send out a questionnaire about how people eat and like to eat. 

For spatial interactions lab i decided to run a series of quick, mini experiments in where i ask people to eat a piece of orange in a specific way. Having started my research in cognitive dissonance ( and still figuring out what this means to me and how i will incorporate it within my food experiments) i decided to have two people do the experiment at a time, but only asking one to eat.

General comments:

Instructions need to be very clear, the more precise i can make it the more impact it will experience. 

people disliked getting dirty by the fruit juices so is there a way i can prepare the fruit which allows the viewer to experience the inner and outer? This experiment might also work with better foods that have more sound.

Giving instructions to one person produces this anticipation and discomfort of the second person, i also need to direct them - they should be looking at the person in front of them.

directions of instructions - place to the lips - be more specific perhaps/more clear or actually movements

Give an overview of the experiment before hand - allow people to connect to the food by explaining that i will be asking them to eat.

take the plates away at the end, it works as a way of bringing the experiment to a close. (perhaps even provide napkins - placed on lap, gives the idea that food will be consumed).