Chia-Fang Chung

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Envisioning Future Food, Technology, and Health: Teens’ Perspectives Through Design Fiction

Teenage years are a critical period for shaping food practices and health behaviors, yet teens remain underrepresented in research on future food and health technologies. This paper reports on design fiction workshops where 20 teens speculated on artifacts such as health-tracking mirrors and food-making machines while…

DIS '252nd AuthorSocial Robot Interaction +1

Haru in the Kitchen: Investigating Family Members’ Perceptions Toward a Social Robot Mediator of Food Experiences

When families live together, they often share meals, and food plays a central part in their everyday routines and rituals. When this changes and families are separated by distance, they may transition these practices to technology-mediated ones. Social robots have shown effectiveness in facilitating human-to-human int…

CHI '25CorrespondingMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

Preparing and Experiencing Food During Life Events: Implications for Technology Supporting Social and Value Changes

Healthy eating is essential to overall well-being. Deciding what and how to eat often requires collaboration and coordination with others to develop routines and create enjoyable experiences. However, life changes like moving or unemployment can disrupt food routines and social dining. Current technologies often overl…

CHI '25CorrespondingElectrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) +2

"It's Too Much On Top of Your Own Food Drama'': Exploring Food Allergy Identity and Experience Through Social Media

This paper provides an in-depth view of people's experiences with food allergies, focusing on their social media use and its influences on healthy habits and identities. Through 18 interviews, our study examined how information and identity work on social media influences health behaviors, social interactions, self-ex…

CHI '25CorrespondingElderly Care & Dementia Support +2

Designing with Dynamics: Reflections on Co-design Workshops Between People Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers focusing on informal care partners and people living with dementia often create personas, incorporating expectations about the pair's relationship dynamics to guide their research and design outcome. Similarly, in our two iterations of co-design workshops aimed at designing…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 3c: Designing for Empathy and Care

“The Struggle is a Part of the Experience”: Engaging Discontents in the Design of Family Meal Technologies”

Meals are a central (and messy) part of family life. Previous design framings for mealtime technologies have focused on supporting dietary needs or social and celebratory interactions at the dinner table; however, family meals involve the coordination of many activities and complicated family dynamics. In this paper,…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 3d: Teens in the Digital Age: Safety, Creativity, and Well-Being

From Viral Content to Real-Life Cuisine and Beyond: Examining Teenagers’ Interactions with TikTok Food Videos and the Influence on Their Food Practices

TikTok has gained immense popularity among teenagers, offering access to numerous user-generated content. Notably, food videos have emerged as a prominent theme on this short-form video social platform, exerting influence on teenage users. The casual and enjoyable nature of short food videos on TikTok belies their pot…

CHI '24CorrespondingElderly Care & Dementia Support +1

Dancing with the Roles: Towards Designing Technology that Supports the Multifaceted Roles of Caregivers for Older Adults

Caregivers of older adults often undertake their caregiving journey driven by filial obligation, facing inherent expectations and multifaceted roles. While Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research has explored these roles, some invisible work in managing them remains under-examined. To address this gap, we interviewe…

CHI '242nd AuthorBest PaperMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

Designing a Card-Based Design Tool to Bridge Academic Research & Design Practice For Societal Resilience

Professional designers often struggle to apply insights from HCI research in their work. To make academic knowledge more accessible to practitioners, HCI researchers have created translational design tools, such as design cards, that support the translation of research insights into design practice. Prior work explore…

CHI '24CorrespondingSerious & Functional Games +1

New Understandings of Loss: Examining the Role of Reflective Technology Within Bereavement and Meaning-Making

Bereavement causes unique challenges, and bereaved individuals can benefit from support during their grieving process. Grief theory emphasizes the importance of reflection during bereavement, and HCI has established that reflective technology can support well-being. However, it remains unclear how to provide bereaveme…

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