Cooking together: a digital ethnography

2012. Jeni Paay, Jesper Kjeldskov, Mikael Skov & Kenton O'Hara
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

Cooking together is an important part of everyday life, a social event in which people enhance their relationships through shared stories and swapping ideas on food preparation. We present a new methodology for studying human interaction to inform the design of interactive systems. In our digital ethnography we study a selection of YouTube videos and use Kendon's theory of F-formations to catalogue a set of spatial patterns created between cooks, kitchen spaces and cameras that influence the social aspects of cooking together. A new F-formation specific to this domain is identified and used to suggest design opportunities for a digitally enhanced kitchen space for sharing the social experience of "cooking together" for people living in different homes.

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Citation

Paay, J., Kjeldskov, J., Skov, M. B., & O'Hara, K. (2012). Cooking together: a digital ethnography. CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1883–1888). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2223723, doi:10.1145/2212776.2223723

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/2212776.2223723,
author = {Paay, Jeni and Kjeldskov, Jesper and Skov, Mikael B. and O'Hara, Kenton},
title = {Cooking together: a digital ethnography},
year = {2012},
isbn = {9781450310161},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2223723},
doi = {10.1145/2212776.2223723},
abstract = {Cooking together is an important part of everyday life, a social event in which people enhance their relationships through shared stories and swapping ideas on food preparation. We present a new methodology for studying human interaction to inform the design of interactive systems. In our digital ethnography we study a selection of YouTube videos and use Kendon's theory of F-formations to catalogue a set of spatial patterns created between cooks, kitchen spaces and cameras that influence the social aspects of cooking together. A new F-formation specific to this domain is identified and used to suggest design opportunities for a digitally enhanced kitchen space for sharing the social experience of "cooking together" for people living in different homes.},
booktitle = {CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {1883–1888},
numpages = {6},
keywords = {digital ethnography, collaborative cooking},
location = {Austin, Texas, USA},
series = {CHI EA '12}
}