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Despite living in an age of anytime, anywhere connectivity, several studies show links between, loneliness, bad eating habits and obesity.
‘Campfire tales’ is a series of mixed reality explorations celebrating the idea of dining as a social event.
These design-led investigations includes a physical wireless table top designed as an object for interaction, a destination bringing people and their social networks together across space and time to prepare, imagine, co-create and share happenings and stories for and with each other.
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Through experience prototyping and with a research through design approach oriented towards gaining a holistic understanding supporting future design direction, this project stimulated fruitful conversations on how we want and how we do not want digital media to be embedded in our everyday physical environment and to what extent this can contribute to human well-being.
