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Chasing Play Potentials in Food Culture: Learning from Traditions to Inspire Future Human-Food Interaction Design

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Ferran Altarriba Bertran,

Elena Márquez Segura,

Laia Turmo Vidal,

Marina Juanet Casulleras,

Oscar Garcia Pañella,

Katherine Isbister,

Danielle WildeAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Pages 979 - 991

https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395575

Published: 03 July 2020 Publication History

Abstract

In this pictorial, we turn to culture and traditions to present an annotated portfolio of play-food potentials, i.e. interesting design qualities and/or interaction mechanisms that could help promote playful and social engagement in food practices. Our portfolio emerged from a one-day workshop where we played with and analyzed a collection of 27 food traditions from diverse cultural backgrounds and historical periods. We highlight play forms and experiential textures that are underexplored in Human-Food Interaction (HFI) research. Our contribution is intended to inspire designers to broaden the palette of play experiences and emotions embraced in HFI.

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Chasing Play Potentials in Food Culture: Learning from Traditions to Inspire Future Human-Food Interaction Design
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design

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