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Design of Cyber Food:: Beginning to Understand Food as Computational Artifact

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With a growing interest in HCI around food, there is a trend to combine computing technology and food to facilitate novel eating experiences. However, most current systems tend to superimpose the technology over food rather than consider food itself as a focal interaction material. This paper proposes a more direct computational food integration by conceptualizing the notion of “Cyber Food”, accentuating “food as computational artifact”, where food embodies digital computation that can be ultimately consumed and digested by the human body. With this work, we attempt to open a new pathway to enrich human-food interactions beyond the traditional boundaries between the physical (edible) and digital realms.

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