Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions

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Tools, interfaces, methods, and practices that can help bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture—blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks—in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Focusing on our urban environments provisioned with digital and network capacities, and drawing on such “bottom-up” sociotechnical trends as DIY and open source, the chapters describe engagements with food and technology that engender (re-)creative interactions.In the first section, “Eat,” contributors discuss technology-aided approaches to sustainable dining, including digital communication between farmers and urban consumers and a “telematic” dinner party at which guests are present electronically. The chapters in “Cook” describe, among other things, “smart” chopping boards that encourage mindful eating and a website that supports urban wild fruit foraging. Finally, “Grow” connects human-computer interaction with achieving a secure, safe, and ethical food supply, offering chapters on the use of interactive technologies in urban agriculture, efforts to trace the provenance of food with a “Fair Tracing” tool, and other projects. Contributors: Joon Sang Baek, Pollie Barden, Eric P. S. Baumer, Eli Blevis, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Robert Comber, Jean Duruz, Katharina Frosch, Anne Galloway, Geri Gay, Jordan Geiger, Gijs Geleijnse, Nina Gros, Penny Hagen, Megan Halpern, Greg Hearn, Tad Hirsch, Jettie Hoonhout, Denise Kera, Vera Khovanskaya, Ann Light, Bernt Meerbeek, William Odom, Kenton O'Hara, Charles Spence, Mirjam Struppek, Esther Toet, Marc Tuters, Katharine S. Willis, David L. Wright, Grant Young Contents Acknowledgments Introduction EAT 1 A Relational Food Network: Strategy and Tools to Co-design a Local Foodshed 2 Technologies of Nostalgia: Vegetarians and Vegans at Addis Ababa Café 3 What Are We Going to Eat Today? Food Recommendations Made Easy and Healthy 4 Not Sharing Sushi: Exploring Social Presence and Connectedness at the Telematic Dinner Party 5 Civic Intelligence and the Making of Sustainable Food Culture(s) COOK 6 Supporting Mindful Eating with the InBalance Chopping Board 7 Encouraging Fresh Food Choices with Mobile and Social Technologies: Learning from the FlavourCrusader Project 8 Probing the Market: Using Cultural Probes to Inform Design for Sustainable Food Practices at a Farmers’ Market 9 Re-placing Food: Place, Embeddedness, and Local Food GROW 10 “You Don’t Have to Be a Gardener to Do Urban Agriculture”: Understanding Opportunities for Designing Interactive Technologies to Support Urban Food Production 11 Augmented Agriculture, Algorithms, Aerospace, and Alimentary Architectures 12 The Allure of Provenance: Tracing Food through User-Generated Production Information 13 Beyond Gardening: A New Approach to HCI and Urban Agriculture 14 Hungry for Data: Metabolic Interaction from Farm to Fork to Phenotype 15 Food Futures: Three Provocations to Challenge HCI Interventions Epilogue: Bringing Technology to the Dining Table List of Recipes Index