This workshop aims to explore how interactive, immersive, and otherwise emergent technology can enrich eating experiences. The other aim is to build an interdisciplinary community around the topics of related to commensality and human-food interaction, with special focus on the role of multimodal interaction among commensal partners sharing food, being humans or artificial dining companions (such as social robots). We aim to collect novel contributions that explore how technology can enhance, facilitate, or make these experiences more enjoyable.

Website: https://cofi2024.github.io/

Submission Guidelines

We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies to build creative systems and algorithms for commensality and HFI. The call is open for both complete and ongoing works, research ideas and the position papers, especially interdisciplinary contributions in line with the main goals of the workshop.  In particular, authors can submit:

(A) Long papers (max. 7 pages + references – ACM format);

(B) Short/Position/Discussion papers (max 4 pages + references – ACM format);

Submission Site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cofi2024

ACM formats: https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions

List of Topics

• Multimodal interaction in commensal setting
• Commensal activity recognition
• Cultural aspects of commensality
• Artificial agents (social robots, virtual companions) in commensality setting
• Interactive technology for sustainable. healthy eating and well-being
• Tele- and remote dining
• Food and eating as playful experience
• Commensality and food interaction in digital (VR/AR) spaces
• Critical human-food interaction design and research
• Food, interactive tech, and sustainability
• Multimodal food perception
• Tracking edible objects
• Designing cross-cultural food and commensal interactions
• Sensory augmentation for novel eating experience
• Gamification in HFI and commensality
• Personalizing eating experiences
• Eating as a multisensory experience
• Computational models of commensals interaction
• Commensality and Food in Social Media
• Social AI and commensal practices

Committees

Program Committee

• Takuji Narumi   
• Chi Thanh Vi    
• Jialin Deng    
• Hunter Fong  
• Beatrice Biancardi    
• Cigdem Beyan    
• Yoram Chisik    
• Dario Pasquali

Organizing committee

• Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa

• Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Escola Universitària ERAM 

• Christopher Dawes, University College London

• Marianna Obrist, University College London

• Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome

Venue

The workshop will be co-located with ICMI 2024 (https://icmi.acm.org/2024/) - San José, Costa Rica

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to m.mancini@di.uniroma1.it