What's on your plate? Collecting multimodal data to understand commensal behavior.

ABSTRACT: Eating is a fundamental part of human life and is, more than anything, a social activity. A new field, known as Computational Commensality has been created to computationally address various social aspects of food and eating. This paper illustrates a study on remote dining we conducted online in May 2021. To better understand this phenomenon, known as Digital Commensality, we recorded 11 pairs of friends sharing a meal online through a videoconferencing app. In the videos, participants consume a plate of pasta while chatting with a friend or a family member. After the remote dinner, participants were asked to fill in the Digital Commensality questionnaire, a validated questionnaire assessing the effects of remote commensal experiences, and provide their opinions on the shortc

SUBMITTER: Ceccaldi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9562130 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature