Food and interaction design: designing for food in everyday life

  • Authors:
  • Rob Comber;Eva Ganglbauer;Jaz Hee-jeong Choi;Jettie Hoonhout;Yvonne Rogers;Kenton O'Hara;Julie Maitland

  • Affiliations:
  • Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia;Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;University College London, London, UK;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK;National Research Council of Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

  • Venue:
  • CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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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.