Abstract
Prior psychology studies have shown that eating ice cream increases happiness, while human-computer interaction work has shown that interactive technology can enrich the eating experience. We explore the opportunity to combine these two through WeScream!, a playful social gustosonic system we designed-social gustosonic referring to the link between the acts of eating and listening as part of a social multisensory experience. WeScream! consists of two interdependent ice-cream cones that allow users to interact with musical sounds generated through the act of eating ice cream together. We report on an in-the-wild study that highlights how our system facilitated a "hard fun" experience through eating together, increased participants' awareness of relatedness, and drew shared attention to the ice cream's taste via increased face-to-face interaction. Drawing on these study insights, we also present three design tactics to guide designers in designing future social gustosonic experiences. Ultimately, we aim to contribute to a playful future of social eating experiences, supporting people in enjoying eating together.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2020 ACM on Designing Interactive Systems Conference |
Editors | Will Odom, Audrey Desjardins, Marianne Graves Peterson |
Place of Publication | New York NY USA |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 951-963 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450369749 |
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Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | Designing Interactive Systems 2020 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 https://dis.acm.org/2020/ (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3357236 (Proceedings) |
Conference
Conference | Designing Interactive Systems 2020 |
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Abbreviated title | DIS 2020 |
Country/Territory | Netherlands |
City | Eindhoven |
Period | 6/07/20 → 10/07/20 |
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Keywords
- Food play
- Gustosonic experiences
- Human-food interaction
- Social eating
- Sound