Food practices as situated action: exploring and designing for everyday food practices with households

  • Authors:
  • Rob Comber;Jettie Hoonhout;Aart van Halteren;Paula Moynihan;Patrick Olivier

  • Affiliations:
  • Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK;Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK;Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Household food practices are complex. Many people are unable to effectively respond to challenges in their food environment to maintain diets considered to be in line with national and international standards for healthy eating. We argue that recognizing food practices as situated action affords opportunities to identify and design for practiced, local and achievable solutions to such food problems. Interviews and shop-a-longs were carried as part of a contextual inquiry with ten households. From this, we identify food practices, such as fitting food, stocking up, food value transitions, and having fun with others and how these practices are enacted in different ways with varied outcomes. We explore how HCI might respond to these practices through issues of social fooding, the presence of others, conceptions about food practices and food routines.