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Designing for human-food interaction: An introduction to the special issue on 'food and interaction design'

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Robert Comber

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Abstract

With this special issue, we draw attention to the growing and diverse field of HCI researchers exploring the interstices of food, technology and everyday practices. This special issue builds on the CHI workshop of the same name (Comber et al., 2012a), where we brought together the community of researchers that take food as a point from which to understand people and design technology. The workshop aimed to ‘to attend to the practical and theoretical difficulties in designing for human–food interactions in everyday life’ identifying four thematic areas of food practices – health and wellbeing; sustainability; food experiences; and alternative food cultures. These practical and theoretical difficulties are evident in the papers that we present here, though the distinction between our four themes, premised by complexities of food practices, is a little less evident. Thus, in the papers that follow we explore how the social, technological, cultural and methodological intertwine in the field of human–food interaction.


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Author(s): Comber R, Choi JH-j, Hoonhout J, O'Hara K

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Year: 2014

Volume: 72

Issue: 2

Pages: 181-184

Print publication date: 01/02/2014

ISSN (print): 1071-5819

ISSN (electronic): 1095-9300

Publisher: Academic Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.09.001

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.09.001


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