What's cooking: A digital intervention to encourage sustainable food behaviour using mobile and wearable technologies

Kher Hui Ng, Victoria Shipp, Anya Skatova, Benjamin Bedwell

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Abstract

This paper reflects upon the opportunity to use mobile and wearable technologies to capture and document food experiences, processes and contexts as revealed in our pilot study to understand sustainable food behaviour, specifically why people do not consume certain fruit and vegetables. The study found that one of the main reasons for the low level consumption of underutilised crops was a lack of knowledge about how to eat/prepare these fruits and vegetables. The paper proposes a digital intervention that augments a mobile food diary/recipe app with wearable cameras, allowing users to 'stitch together' images related to food (e.g. preparations) into food stories or recipes for sharing across generations and communities, as an example of Mobile HCI sustainability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobileHCI 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1058-1061
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450336536
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Aug 2015
Event17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2015 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 24 Aug 201527 Aug 2015

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2015
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period24/08/1527/08/15

Keywords

  • Food consumption
  • Food security
  • Mobile app
  • Recipes
  • Wearable cameras

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