What is it about?
Little attention has been given to food waste prevention in households by changing consumers’ behaviors. In this paper, we present a social recipe recommender which is a mobile application being developed to reduce food waste in households by recommending recipes to a group of connected people. The application will allow the logging of food and waste related daily practices and will persuade a group of users to share their food by recommending recipes based on available ingredients within this group. The method of data collection, persuasion and the experiments are described through this paper.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Food waste is becoming a central issue of the twenty-first century. A total of one third up to one half of all produced food is wasted according to the estimates.
Perspectives
This product-service system called EUPHORIA provides a social platform for people to share food as well as to appreciate it together. The idea is originated from the increasing interest in internet of things in our daily lives. I believe that it is likely to have smart environments that can log food activities in households in the near future. When the technology is smart enough to track exactly the types and amounts of ingredients consumers have, EUPHORIA can play an important role on how to use this data to reduce food waste. The proposed recipe recommendation system is based on available ingredients as the current solution for a positive impact towards sustainable behavior. I think this project contributes to sustainable HCI and persuasive technology studies as well as providing a new application area for the design and testing of recommendation systems.
Professor Matthias Rauterberg
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Social recipe recommendation to reduce food waste, January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2581226.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
