PROJECT OVERVIEW
moJo iCuisine is the firstly realized interactive restaurant in Taiwan. With creative western food, fusion and molecular gastronomy, moJo iCuisine approaches the fascinating dining experience with interactive service design. Each dining table in the restaurant is overlaid with interactive interfaces for restaurant consumers to browse menu, order dishes/drinks, play little games while waiting for the meals, viewing advertisements, fill out opinion forms, and checking/paying the bills. The colorful and flourishing landscape composed of these interactive dining tables is also a catalyst to empower a joyful experience in the restaurant.
In this project, we have not only designed the visual system for moJo iCuisine, including entrance image, name cards, and the delightful graphic interface of the interactive dining table, but also implemented a database system following the notion of service design. The interactive dining table which connected to the database, offers an opportunity to record and trace consumers’ preferences, and compiled statistics for the commercial operations of the restaurant.
THE INTERACTIVE DINING TABLE
moJo iCuisine's Interactive Dining Table is a modular table unit equipped with touch sensors. Each table can be seated with two diners. The visual interface is projected from the top installation, and is specially designed to be viewed and interacted with on two opposite orientations. Diners could touch and toss the circular menu to select dishes to see introduction of each.
Beside browsing menu, the table also provides functions for diners to directly order dishes/drinks, playing little games while waiting for the meals, changing “digital tablecloth”, viewing advertisements, filling out opinion forms, and checking/paying the bills. And all these are done by simply finger touch. The interface itself is also a colorful and flourishing landscape in the restaurant that empowers joyful dining experiences. With delicious cuisine overlaid with colorful and changing interactive graphics projection, diners get delightful and impressive moments.
All of the interactive dining tables are connected with a database and the accounting system in the restaurant. When a user orders a dish, the kitchen will receive it and the chef can make the dish immediately. And the order is automatically charged on the bill, of course. The interactive dining table also offers an opportunity to record and trace consumers' preferences, and compiled statistics for the commercial operations of the restaurant.