Cooking together: a digital ethnography

  • Authors:
  • Jeni Paay;Jesper Kjeldskov;Mikael B. Skov;Kenton O'Hara

  • Affiliations:
  • Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark;Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark;Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

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

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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.