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Pairing technology and meals: a contextual enquiry in the family household
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posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by Hasan FerdousHasan Ferdous, B Ploderer, H Davis, F Vetere, K O'HaraRecent research about technology during mealtime has been mostly concerned with developing technology rather than creating a deeper understanding of the context of family mealtimes and associated practices. In this paper, we present a two-phase study discussing how the temporal, social, and food related features are intertwined with technology use during mealtimes. Our findings show how people differentiate technology usage during weekday meals, weekend meals, and among different meals of the day. We identify and analyse prototypical situations ranging from the use of arbitrary technologies while eating solitary, to idiosyncratic family norms and practices associated with shared technologies. We discuss the use of mealtime technology to create appropriate ambience for meals with guests and demonstrate how technology can be used to complement food in everyday meals and special occasions. Our findings make recommendation about the need for HCI research to recognize the contextual nature of technology usage during family mealtimes and to adopt appropriate design strategies.
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Association for Computing Machinery Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group. Conference (27th : 2015 : Melbourne, Vic.)Series
Association for Computing Machinery Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group ConferencePagination
370 - 379Publisher
Association for Computing MachineryLocation
Melbourne, Vic.Place of publication
New York, N.Y.Publisher DOI
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2015-12-07End date
2015-12-10ISBN-13
9781450336734Language
engPublication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
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B Ploderer, M Carter, M Gibbs, W Smith, F VetereTitle of proceedings
OzCHI 2015 : Being human : Proceedings of the 27th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference 2015Usage metrics
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