Abstract

Color is an important medium of perception. Color blindness affects approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women.1 It’s estimated that there are 300 million colorblind people in the world, and there are different types of colorblindness, varying from color, degree, age, gender, and more. Apart from medical treatment, the life experience of different color-blind people has always been put in one large category, but it’s important to pay attention to different types of colorblindness causing different life inconveniences for color-blind people. Through all the life experiences, kitchen use is one of the most important routines in everyone’s life. For color blind people, there can be food poisoning and undercooked/ overcooked experiences. Although they could use apps and special life tips to supplement them to help them distinguish different conditions, the process is more cumbersome than we thought, and the results are not always accurate. Important questions are: “How to help color-blind people inspect the condition of food? How to make cooking experiences more inclusive for colorblind people? How to combine them to improve kitchen experiences for color-blind people? This project explores colorblindness and cooking utensil assistance for meal preparation.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Color blindness--Patients--Services for; Cooking--Interactive multimedia--Design; Food contamination--Prevention--Interactive multimedia--Design

Publication Date

5-5-2023

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Industrial Design (MFA)

Department, Program, or Center

Design, School of

College

College of Art and Design

Advisor

Alex Lobos

Advisor/Committee Member

Lorraine Justice

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

IDDE-MFA

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