Foody Talk: Exploring Opportunities for Conversational Food Journaling

Lucas M. Silva; Xi Lu; Emily X. Liang; Daniel A. Epstein

doi:10.1145/3706598.3713875

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Foody Talk: Exploring Opportunities for Conversational Food Journaling

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Foody Talk: Exploring Opportunities for Conversational Food Journaling

Lucas M. Silva, Xi Lu, Emily X. Liang and Daniel A. Epstein

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.1-19

ACM Conferences

CHI 2025: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

04/26/2025

DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3713875

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Abstract

Digital food journaling can help support reflection and improvement of wellbeing relating to eating habits. However, it is often viewed as burdensome, and abandoned before gaining benefits. Advances in conversational user interfaces (CUIs) have the potential to support people journaling in a natural and interactive manner, but we lack understanding of how people would ideally prefer to use CUIs when journaling. We conducted 33 co-design sessions with 18 participants to ideate CUI interactions supportive of their health goals and in everyday situations. Our findings reveal that participants expect CUIs to be adaptive by learning goals and personal references, and support depth in detail and goal alignment while respecting situational constraints and intent. While participants expressed concern around navigating long-term data solely through conversations, they envisioned that CUIs could provide empathetic, non-judgmental feedback. We discuss opportunities for CUIs to support empathetic food journaling and accountability while following guardrails for delegated tasks.

Human-centered computing -- Interaction techniques

Human-centered computing -- User centered design

Human-centered computing -- User studies

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Title: Subtitle: Foody Talk: Exploring Opportunities for Conversational Food Journaling
Creators: Lucas M. Silva - University of Iowa
Xi Lu - University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Emily X. Liang - University of California, Irvine
Daniel A. Epstein - University of California, Irvine
Contributors: Naomi Yamashita (Editor) - Kyoto University
Vanessa Evers (Editor) - Nanyang Technological University
Koji Yatani (Editor) - The University of Tokyo
Xianghua (Sharon) Ding (Editor) - University of Glasgow
Bongshin Lee (Editor) - Yonsei University
Marshini Chetty (Editor) - University of Chicago
Phoebe Toups-Dugas (Editor) - Monash University
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.1-19
Conference: CHI 2025: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Series: ACM Conferences
DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3713875
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Language: English
Date published: 04/26/2025
Academic Unit: Computer Science
Record Identifier: 9984813287602771

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