Foodie: Play with Your Food Extend social cooking game with novel edible interface

Abstract

We present Foodie, a novel approach that extends digital cooking games to the real edible food, connecting digital playfulness with active participation in food preparation and eating experience. Through this system, people can not only create their special pattern for food and share with remote family members or friends in the digital environment, but also serve them with the emulated real edible food. Taking one step beyond the current digital cooking games, this system adds another natural dimension-the edible food with smell and taste, to enhance the lifelike feeling of virtual cooking, even remotely. The intuitive but engaging interface also provides an attractive channel for kids to creatively learn about cooking in a safe, realistic and playful way. © 2011 IEEE.