Sustainable Foodtures: Exploring Roles of Future Technology in Sustainable Food Shopping

Martin Valdemar Anker Lindrup, Eun Jeong Cheon, Mikael B. Skov, Dimitrios Raptis, Rob Comber

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6 Scopus citations

Abstract

Several efforts have been made to use technology to encourage people to buy more environmentally sustainable food. However, only a small amount of research has attempted to understand the roles of technology in food shopping by incorporating perspectives from various stakeholders. We aimed to explore how the design space for future technology in sustainable food shopping is negotiated among sustainability-aware individuals, sustainability professionals, and designers through co-design workshops and speculative enactments. We identify three roles of technology in sustainable food shopping: technology as guidance, technology as mediator, and technology for reflection. Additional insights are provided regarding how parts of these roles for future technology are rejected, adopted, or adjusted when enacted in everyday food shopping. We discuss design implications for the roles of sustainability technology in terms of data accuracy and transparency, as well as embodied data experiences. Furthermore, we provide methodological considerations for speculative enactments in SHCI.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationParticipative Computing for Sustainable Futures - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2022
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450396998
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 8 2022
Event12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures, NordiCHI 2022 - Aarhus, Denmark
Duration: Oct 8 2022Oct 12 2022

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures, NordiCHI 2022
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityAarhus
Period10/8/2210/12/22

Keywords

  • Sustainable HCI
  • design
  • food shopping
  • speculative
  • technology
  • tell-make-enact

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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