Title
Understanding food consumption lifecycles using wearable cameras
Abstract
Application of design in HCI is a common approach to engendering behavioural change to address important challenges such as sustainability. Encouraging such change requires an understanding of current motivations and behaviours in the domain in question. In this paper, we describe use of wearable cameras to study motivations and behaviours around food consumption by focusing on two contrasting cultures, Malaysia and the UK. Our findings highlight the potential of wearable cameras to enhance knowledge of food consumption practices and identify where and how some digital interventions might be appropriate to change food behaviour. This includes appealing to people's motivations behind food consumption and capitalising on existing practices such as gifting of food and social meals. We propose a food consumption lifecycle as a framework to understand and design human---food interaction. The use of wearable cameras enabled us to capture a high-level overview of spatially distributed food-related practices and understand food behaviours in greater depth.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s00779-015-0871-y
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Food, Everyday practice, Human–food interaction, Wearable camera, Digital ethnography
Food consumption,Psychological intervention,Wearable computer,Computer science,Digital ethnography,Multimedia,Sustainability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
7
1617-4917
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.39
27
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kher Hui Ng1418.69
Victoria Shipp2214.74
Richard Mortier31421130.93
Steve Benford45886696.64
Martin Flintham584590.56
Tom Rodden64846654.05