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Really eating together: a kinetic table to synchronise social dining experiences

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Robb Mitchell,

Alexandra Papadimitriou,

Youran You,

Laurens BoerAuthors Info & Claims

AH '15: Proceedings of the 6th Augmented Human International Conference

Pages 173 - 174

https://doi.org/10.1145/2735711.2735822

Published: 09 March 2015 Publication History

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Eating is one of the most social of human activities; yet, scant attention has been paid to coordinating meal completion speeds. Addressing this challenge, we present "Keep Up With Me" - a novel augmented dining table designed to guide diners in keeping pace with each other. This mechatronical table incorporates a mechanism to gauge the relative weight of food on the dishes of dining partners. Actuators gradually raise the dish of a slower eating partner, and lower the dish of a faster eater by a corresponding amount. These discrete signals may iteratively bring the eating pace of dining companions back into mutual alignment. This table is offered as a contribution toward discussions around the subtle augmentation of dining and social experiences.

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AH '15: Proceedings of the 6th Augmented Human International Conference

March 2015

241 pages

ISBN:9781450333498

DOI:10.1145/2735711

General Chairs:
Suranga Nanayakkara
Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore)
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Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Georgia Institute of Technology & National University of Singapore (Singapore)
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Program Chairs:
Jun Rekimoto
The University of Tokyo (Japan)
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Jochen Huber
MIT Media Lab & Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore)
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Bing-Yu Chen
National Taiwan University (Taiwan)

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