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Crafting Tangible Interfaces for Human Digestion: Unpacking the Research through Design Prototyping Journey

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Rohit Ashok Khot,

Deepti AggarwalAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '22: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Article No.: 28, Pages 1 - 15

https://doi.org/10.1145/3490149.3502252

Published: 13 February 2022 Publication History

Abstract

This pictorial unpacks the prototyping journey of Digestive Tumble - a tangible system that demonstrates the processes involved in the human digestive system. The system aims to support awareness of our digestive processes and help users to make informed decisions about their dietary choices. Digestive Tumble consists of nine modules, where the modules visualise a unique stage of the digestion. The system represents the digestion of five major food groups: grains, meat, vegetables, fruits and dairy through colourful tokens. Users interact with the system by inserting tokens representing their meal. These tokens transform into colourful beads, which then traverse through different modules to show the digestion of the given meal. We reflect upon the steps involved in visualising an internal bodily process through a tangible system. We hope that our design reflection will inspire future systems on visualising other internal bodily processes to support body learning through everyday reflection.

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Pasumarthy NNisal SDanaher Jvan den Hoven EKhot R(2024)Go-Go Biome: Evaluation of a Casual Game for Gut Health Engagement and ReflectionProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642742(1-20)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642742
Pasumarthy N(2023)Designing Interactive Experiences For Gut Health Engagement and ReflectionExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3577058(1-6)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3577058
Pasumarthy NPatibanda RTai Yvan den Hoven EDanaher JKhot R(2022)Gooey Gut Trail: Board Game Play to Understand Human-Microbial InteractionsProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35495026:CHI PLAY(1-31)Online publication date: 31-Oct-2022
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Crafting Tangible Interfaces for Human Digestion: Unpacking the Research through Design Prototyping Journey
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
  2. Interaction design

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Pasumarthy NNisal SDanaher Jvan den Hoven EKhot R(2024)Go-Go Biome: Evaluation of a Casual Game for Gut Health Engagement and ReflectionProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642742(1-20)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642742
Pasumarthy N(2023)Designing Interactive Experiences For Gut Health Engagement and ReflectionExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3577058(1-6)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3577058
Pasumarthy NPatibanda RTai Yvan den Hoven EDanaher JKhot R(2022)Gooey Gut Trail: Board Game Play to Understand Human-Microbial InteractionsProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35495026:CHI PLAY(1-31)Online publication date: 31-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3549502

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