Food and interaction design: designing for food in everyday life

2012. Rob Comber, Eva Ganglbauer, Jaz Choi, Jettie Hoonhout, Yvonne Rogers, Kenton O'Hara & Julie Maitland
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

Food and interaction design presents an interesting challenge to the HCI community in attending to the pervasive nature of food, the socio-cultural differences in food practices and a changing global foodscape. To design for meaningful and positive interactions it is essential to identify daily food practices and the opportunities for the design of technology to support such practices. This workshop brings together a community of researchers and practitioners in human-food interaction to attend to the practical and theoretical difficulties in designing for human-food interactions in everyday life. Through a practical field study and workshop we explore themes of food experiences, health and wellbeing, sustainability and alternative food cultures.

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Citation

Comber, R., Ganglbauer, E., Choi, J. H.-j., Hoonhout, J., Rogers, Y., O'Hara, K., & Maitland, J. (2012). Food and interaction design: designing for food in everyday life. CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2767–2770). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212716, doi:10.1145/2212776.2212716

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/2212776.2212716,
author = {Comber, Rob and Ganglbauer, Eva and Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong and Hoonhout, Jettie and Rogers, Yvonne and O'Hara, Kenton and Maitland, Julie},
title = {Food and interaction design: designing for food in everyday life},
year = {2012},
isbn = {9781450310161},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212716},
doi = {10.1145/2212776.2212716},
abstract = {Food and interaction design presents an interesting challenge to the HCI community in attending to the pervasive nature of food, the socio-cultural differences in food practices and a changing global foodscape. To design for meaningful and positive interactions it is essential to identify daily food practices and the opportunities for the design of technology to support such practices. This workshop brings together a community of researchers and practitioners in human-food interaction to attend to the practical and theoretical difficulties in designing for human-food interactions in everyday life. Through a practical field study and workshop we explore themes of food experiences, health and wellbeing, sustainability and alternative food cultures.},
booktitle = {CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {2767–2770},
numpages = {4},
keywords = {alternative food cultures, food, health, human-food-interaction, interaction design, sustainability},
location = {Austin, Texas, USA},
series = {CHI EA '12}
}