主催: 一般社団法人 日本機械学会
会議名: 2018年度 年次大会
開催日: 2018/09/09 - 2018/09/12
In recent years, it has been said that the number of mastication and mealtime tends to decrease with the spread of fast foods and softening of foods. Decrease in the number of mastication causes many problems such as obesity, shrinkage of the jaw, loss of natural teeth. In this study, we examined a method to increase the number of mastication by changing the subjective texture of food by presenting mastication sound with bone conduction headphones when chewing food, based on a cross-modal. Moreover, we investigated what kind of mastication sound is effective for increasing the number of mastication from the viewpoint of texture. The result showed that there was a possibility of increasing the number of mastication. On the other hand, a certain result was not obtained with regard to the texture, because the texture which has the correlation with the number of mastication was different depending on the food. However, as the result of a questionnaire of the texture, the correlation between the texture of heavy and the number of mastication was found. Therefore, we confirmed the possibility of increasing the number of mastication by controlling the subjective heaviness of food.