EdiPulse: investigating a playful approach to self-monitoring through 3D printed chocolate treats

Rohit Ashok Khot; Deepti Aggarwal; Ryan Pennings; Larissa Hjorth; Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025980

EdiPulse: investigating a playful approach to self-monitoring through 3D printed chocolate treats

Rohit Ashok Khot
, Deepti Aggarwal
, Ryan Pennings
, Larissa Hjorth
, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

109 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Self-monitoring offers benefits in facilitating awareness about physical exercise, but such data-centric activity may not always lead to an enjoyable experience. We introduce EdiPulse a novel system that creates activity treats to offer playful reflections on everyday physical activity through the appealing medium of chocolate. EdiPulse translates self-monitored data from physical activity into small 3D printed chocolate treats. These treats (< 20 grams of chocolate in total) embody four forms: Graph, Flower, Slogan and Emoji. We deployed our system across 7 households and studied its use with 13 participants for 2 weeks per household. The field study revealed positive aspects of our approach along with some open challenges, which we disseminate across five themes: Reflection, Positivity, Determination, Affection, and Co-experience. We conclude by highlighting key implications of our work for future playful food-based technology design in supporting the experience of being physically active. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Cliff Lampe, m.c. schraefel
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	6593-6607
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025980
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017 - Colorado Convention Center, Denver, United States of America Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017 Conference number: 35th https://chi2017.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3025453 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017
Abbreviated title	CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Denver
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17
Internet address	https://chi2017.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3025453 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Chocolate printing
Food printing
Human food interactions
Physical activity
Quantified self
Self-monitoring

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Khot, R. A., Aggarwal, D., Pennings, R., Hjorth, L., & Mueller, F. F. (2017). EdiPulse: investigating a playful approach to self-monitoring through 3D printed chocolate treats. In C. Lampe, & M. C. schraefel (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 6593-6607). Article 6593 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025980

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Khot, RA, Aggarwal, D, Pennings, R, Hjorth, L & Mueller, FF 2017, EdiPulse: investigating a playful approach to self-monitoring through 3D printed chocolate treats. in C Lampe & MC schraefel (eds), Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 6593, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 6593-6607, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2017, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, 6/05/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025980

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Khot RA, Aggarwal D, Pennings R, Hjorth L, Mueller FF. EdiPulse: investigating a playful approach to self-monitoring through 3D printed chocolate treats. In Lampe C, schraefel MC, editors, Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2017. p. 6593-6607. 6593 doi: 10.1145/3025453.3025980

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