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Authors:
Yan Yan Cao
Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Koh
Keywords: dining; playfulness; performance
Abstract:
Playful Utensils is a system of music-enabled, eating and food preparation utensils that facilitate light-hearted interaction and communication in the kitchen and dining room both locally and remotely. In order to understand the use of utensils to support communal behavior in dining situations, three design studies were conducted. Addressing the need for a new direction for food research in HCI, Playful Utensils aims to draw attention away from contemporary kitchen and dining media research, which focuses too acutely on ubiquitous sensory overload, to make apparent the need for socially communicative, emotional assets investment regarding communities in the kitchen and dining space.
Pages: 196 to 204
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: September 23, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4278
ISBN: 978-1-61208-236-3
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from September 23, 2012 to September 28, 2012