We developed Arm-a-Dine, a social eating system that uses an on-body third arm to explore augmented eating experiences. Arm-a-Dine is a novel interactive multiplayer experience where a third (robotic) arm attached to the stomach of the person supports his/her eating, in particular, we sense facial expressions of other co-eaters to guide the actions of the third arm, fuelling the interlink between eating and facial expressions. With our work, we aim to explore the potential of embodied systems to support the social eating experience.
Talk at CHI PLAY ’18
Publications
Mueller, F., Wang, Y., Li, Z., Kari, T., Arnold, P., Mehta, Y., Marquez, J., Khot, R. Towards Experiencing Eating as Play. TEI 2020. Long paper. ACM. Talk video.
Mueller, F., Kari, T., Li, Z., Wang, Y., Mehta, Y., Andres, J., Marquez, J., Patibanda, R. Towards Designing Bodily Integrated Play. TEI 2020. Long paper. ACM. Talk video.
Metha, Y., Khot, R., Patibanda, R., Mueller, F. Arm-A-Dine: Towards Understanding the Design of Playful Embodied Eating Experiences. CHI PLAY 2018. Long paper. ACM. 299-313. Video. Talk video.
Press coverage
Feed Your Friends With Autonomous Chest-Mounted Robot Arms. IEEE Spectrum.
This weird wearable robot arm will feed you and your dinner companion. Digital Trends.
A Wearable Robot Arm Makes You Work for Thanksgiving Leftovers. Futurism.
This chest-mounted robot feeds your face so you don’t have to. Design Boom.
Feeding Your Friends with the Arm-A-Dine Robotic Arm Is Certainly an Experience. Hackster.io
A gift for the truly greedy! Chest-mounted robot that acts as a third arm feeds people when they’re too full to move. DailyMail UK.