A Panoramic View of Socio-Cultural Sensitivity in Digital Technologies: A Comprehensive Review and Future Directions

G Chan, B Banire, G Ataguba… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, there has been growing research interest in aligning technological designs
with users' lived experiences. The goal of this work is to review existing work on the current …

Playful inspiration for a new wave of joyful forest technology

F Altarriba Bertran, OO Buruk, V Spors… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Here we present an exploration into the playful potential of forests and how interactive tech
might respond to it. Through first-person, speculative, and situated generative design …

Co-imagining the future of playable cities: a bottom-up, multi-stakeholder speculative inquiry into the playful potential of urban technology

F Altarriba Bertran, L Bisbe Armengol… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Here we present a co-design exploration into the potential of technology to playfully re-
signify urban spaces. We created a speculative catalog of urban tech and used it to facilitate …

Robot presidents: Who should rule the world? Teaching critical thinking in AI through reflections upon food traditions

MM Schaper, L Malinverni, C Valero - … of the 11th Nordic Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The goal of this study is to explore new educational strategies to stimulate children's critical
reflections upon ethical and social issues on Human-Robot Interaction. We use food …

The playful potential of digital commensality: learning from spontaneous playful remote dining practices

K Alhasan, E Ceccaldi, A Covaci, M Mancini… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
With one-person households being increasingly common and Covid-19 lockdown policies
forcing people to stay home, remote dining has become common practice for many, who …

The Playful Potential of Shared Mealtime: a speculative catalog of playful technologies for day-to-day social eating experiences

F Altarriba Bertran, A Pometko, M Gupta… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present an annotated portfolio of speculative ideas that emerged from a co-
design process where we investigated the playful potential of day-to-day mealtime. Our …

Learning from Users: Everyday Playful Interactions to Support Architectural Spatial Changes

C Çetin Er, O Özcan - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
While there's growing interest in eliciting situated playful interactions with technologies in
different contexts, how these interactions might shape everyday spaces still needs to be fully …

Sensory probes: An exploratory design research method for Human-Food Interaction

T Gayler, C Sas, V Kalnikaitė - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Designing interactions with food holds potential for rich multisensory experiences but their
pervasiveness can challenge our understanding of them. This paper presents the design …

“It took me back 25 years in one bound”: self-generated flavor-based cues for self-defining memories in later life

T Gayler, C Sas, V Kalnikaite - Human–Computer Interaction, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
1. Introduction “... those short, plump little cakes called petites madeleines [...] I raised to my
lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the …

Foodfighters-improving memory retention of food items through a mobile serious game

KN Jespersen, R Odgaard, K Julsgaard… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Food waste in private households of industrialised countries is becoming an increasing
concern, as its impact on greenhouse gas emissions is comparable to that of the aviation …