How digital food affects our analog lives: The impact of food photography on healthy eating behavior

T Andersen, DV Byrne, QJ Wang - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Obesity continues to be a global issue. In recent years, researchers have started to question
the role of our novel yet ubiquitous use of digital media in the development of obesity. With …

Digital forms of commensality in the 21st Century: a scoping review

MR Pereira-Castro, AG Pinto, TR Caixeta… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The social act of eating together has been influenced and mediated by technologies in
recent decades. This phenomenon has been investigated in different academic fields, but …

[HTML][HTML] Grand challenges in human-food interaction

M Obrist, FA Bertran, N Makam, S Kim, C Dawes… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
There is an increasing interest in combining interactive technology with food, leading to a
new research area called human-food interaction. While food experiences are increasingly …

Convivial quarantines: Cultivating co-presence at a distance

N Bascuñan-Wiley, M DeSoucey, GA Fine - Qualitative sociology, 2022 - Springer
Sociology's focus on sociality and co-presence has long oriented studies of commensality—
the social dimension of eating together. This literature commonly prioritizes face-to-face …

Cloud-based commensality: Enjoy the company of co-diners without social facilitation of eating

C Wang, Y Peng, L Qiu, X Wan - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Previous research has associated frequently enforced solo dining with negative
consequences on psychological well-being, but the problem of having to eat alone may be …

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 …

Power of presence: Effects of physical or digital commensality on consumer perception and acceptance of meals

RC Pramudya, A Singh, AH Patterson, NK Ngo… - Food Quality and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current COVID-19 pandemic has prevented individuals from gathering together
physically because of mandated social distancing, enhancing the popularity of digital …

More than foodsaving machines: insights from communities fighting food waste in the digital age

V Ntouros, V Vlachokyriakos… - Interacting with …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Grassroots initiatives promoting sharing-for-community are viewed as contributing to the
transition towards a more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable world …

Food‐related experiences and behavioral responses among people affected by chemosensory dysfunctions following COVID‐19: A scoping review

N Neuman, P Sandvik, NB Lindholm… - Research in nursing …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A category of symptoms that became characteristic early in the first wave of the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic was chemosensory dysfunctions (alterations of smell …

A Reflection on the State of Multisensory Human–Food Interaction Research

C Velasco, QJ Wang, M Obrist, A Nijholt - Frontiers in Computer …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We present a perspective article on the state of multisensory human–food interaction (MHFI)
research and lay out some reflections for research and development in this area of inquiry …